Lot 29
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A GUATELMALAN SILVER BRAZIER (CHOFETA)

Details
A GUATELMALAN SILVER BRAZIER (CHOFETA)
EARLY 19TH CENTURY, MAKER'S MARK OF A MEMBER OF THE GUERRA FAMILY

The shell form base on three ball feet, the stem cast as a leafy tendril with looped handle, the burner formed as an everted flowerhead with palmettes and stylized petals, marked on base with maker's mark ?M over Guerra--8 1/8in. (20.6 cm.) long
(16 oz.)

Lot Essay

Similar braziers are illustrated in Plateria de Guatemala, Instituto Guatemalteco de Arte Colonial, 1975, pp. 105-106 and in Josefina Alonso de Rodriquez, El Arte de la Plateria en la Capitania General de Guatemala, Guatemala, 1980, fig. 82.