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FRANCISCO DE SORIA HURTADO (1651–1692)

Monstrance

Year 1685
Medium Partially silver-gilt; casted, turned, chiseled, fretted and enameled
Dimensions Height: 64 cm or 25 1/4 in; Sun’s diameter: 25.5 cm or 10 1/8 in; Maximum base width: 21 cm or 8 1/4 in. Weight: 5.000 kg
Signed and dated Inscribed: 'Hiso este vixil FrANco. De Soria HurtAdo por orden de P° Cortes y de Pablo de Orna Ano de 1685' (This luna was made by FrANco. De Soria HurtAdo commissioned by P° Cortes and de Pablo de Orna Year 1685).

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Provenance

Former Apelles Collection, Chile - England.
Literature

'Aculturation and Inovation in Peruvian Viceregal Silverwork' in E. Phipps, J. Hecht & C. Esteras Martin et. al., The Colonial Andes. Tapestries and Silverwork, 1530-1830, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven & London 2004, pp. 59-71, 221, cat. 114.

Exhibitions / Fairs

Platería del Perú Virreinal (Silver Objects of the Viceregal Peru). 1535-1825, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya / Banco Continental, Madrid - Lima, 1997, no. 15, pp. 108 and 109;

The Colonial Andes. Tapestries and Silverwork, 1530-1830, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2004, cat. 114.

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