Spanish Manufactory Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

This serving tray is made of Alpaca silver plate and has a modern rectangular shape with raised edges and decorative handles. The underside bears legal silversmith hallmarks and read...

17th century Hispano-Moresque lusterware bowl or charger with a central tree of life motif. The tin-glazed lusterware produced at Manises near Valencia, Muel, and Catalonia shows the...

Salt or spice shaker. Silver. Lizasoain. Spain, Madrid, 1768. With contrast markings. Silver spice rack in its color with a frustoconical body, sinuou...

Jug or jug. Silver. DE SAN FAURÍ, Juan (1745-1785). Spain, Madrid, towards the last third of the 18th century. With contrast and burilada marks, and property name (Ochoa). The jug has an oval base with slight curves and a body divided into two areas (wider in the lower half, slightly concave in the upper half) with a series of curved “gajos”; the peak shows simple architectural decoration and smooth areas; the handle is of a type known as brace, with classicist architectural elements; the lid follows the lines of the body and is finished off with a vegetable shape creating a knob. On one of the sides, towards the foot, there is the engraved text "Ochoa", referring to a former owner. Contrasting marks place the creation of the piece in Madrid. Another one that appears could be one of those used by the silversmith Juan de San Faurí. With Felipe V, numerous French influences, along with some Italian ones, came to silverware, both from the hand of craftsmen of these origins and from pieces. Little marking continues in the works, except in important centers such as Madrid, and civil typologies acquired great importance. As in the rest of the country, the Baroque, Rococo and Neoclassical tendencies coexisted at the Court, although, being the center that set the standard for the rest, the former soon departed, introducing Rococo before 1740 or on that date, and Neoclassicism around 1770 (gradually imposing itself from 1780). The jug follows the most common prototype since the arrival of the Bourbons, characterized by its European influence and the great difference it shows with the type known as the “spout jug”. Compare with the Francisco García...

Jug. Silver. FAXARDO, Antonio. Spain, Cadiz, 1787; highlighted in Italy (Naples). With contrasting and burilada marks. Published in Encyclopedia of Spanish...

Large cutlery set of massive silver for twelve persons consisting of 234 parts held in glassed multilayer cabinet / casket. Date of manufactory: Art Nouveau, circa 1900 Material: Massive silver '916' Form type: Thread decoration with tendrills and feathers. Exquisite manufacturing quality with special elegance. Glassed Art Nouveau show cabinet...

Silver 915 Spanish nicest sailing ship (= Rarity !) made circa 1934-1935 Hallmarked: -- PENTAGRAM / FIVE-POINTED STAR (used as from the year 1934 for Spanish silver as it was legally binding then = SILVER 915 / silver with a purity of 91.5%) -- MASTER'S MARK existing: it is rubbed, but most probably it is a silversmith deriving from Madrid Size: Total height 26.5 cm / 10.43 inches Total width 27.0 cm / 10.62 inches Total depth 8.0 cm / 3.14 inches Weight: 407 grams / 14.32 oz / 13.08 troy ounces Specifications: Nicest silver sailing ship...