ATTRIBUTED TO PLACIDO ZULOAGA, EIBAR, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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A SPANISH GOLD DAMASCENED FORGED IRON URN
ATTRIBUTED TO PLACIDO ZULOAGA, EIBAR, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Of baluster form, the tapering neck flanked by garland-hung handles terminating in winged griffons, decorated overall with arabesques and grotesques, centred to each side with an oval cartouche depicting Cupid, on a domed circular base
14 ½ in. (37 cm.) high; 6 ½ in. (16 cm.) wide

Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
J. Lavin, The Art and Tradition of the Zuloagas: Spanish Damascene from the Khalili Collection, Oxford, 1997, pp. 138, 147-153, 159-161.

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Lot Essay

Born into a family of Spanish Royal Armourers, Plácido Zuloaga (d. 1910) went on to become one of the greatest masters of the decorative art of damascening, praised in his day as 'a second Benvenuto Cellini'. His first recognition as an artist came in 1855 when, together with his father Eusebio, he inspired the following comments for work shown at the Paris Exposition Universelle: 'One cannot praise too highly the arms and other metal objects presented by the Sres. Zuloaga, father and son; [...] iron-chiselling, damascene, etching and repoussé never had interpreters of such obvious and varied talent' (Anon. Visite à l'Exposition Universelle de Paris, Paris, 1855, p. 121). A very similar urn of conforming shape with sculptural handles terminating in horned masks, also unsigned but attributed to Zuloaga is in the Khalili Collection and is illustrated in Lavin, loc. cit., no. 43, pp. 147-150.

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