Lot Essay
An example of similar form, with marks for Bilbao, is illustrated in Fernández, Munoa and Rabasco, Encyclopedia de la Plata Española y virreinal americana, p. 326, pl. 135.
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A SPANISH SILVER CENSER
16TH CENTURY, PROBABLY NORTHERN SPAIN
Architectural form, the spreading hexagonal base and lower body chased with scrolls on a matted ground, the removable hexafoil three-tiered upper body with pierced arches and columns, the four link chains bound with a spool-form socket and joined to a circular domed disk with loop for suspension, set with copper incense dish, apparently unmarked
height of burner 9½in. (24.1cm.) high
(weighable silver 37oz., 1164gr.)
16TH CENTURY, PROBABLY NORTHERN SPAIN
Architectural form, the spreading hexagonal base and lower body chased with scrolls on a matted ground, the removable hexafoil three-tiered upper body with pierced arches and columns, the four link chains bound with a spool-form socket and joined to a circular domed disk with loop for suspension, set with copper incense dish, apparently unmarked
height of burner 9½in. (24.1cm.) high
(weighable silver 37oz., 1164gr.)