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The Porto Museum Silver and Silver Gilt Filigree Ciborium or Chalice.
18th Century.
Decorated with Carved Coral.
The Coral was carved in Trapani, Western Sicily.
It is not entirely clear but I believe that much of the silverwork was manufactured in Palermo.
17th/18th Century
In the Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis. Porto, Portugal.
The photographs taken by the author October 2024.
No size available at present - I will attempt to contact the Museum.
I have posted previously on the subject of Filigree and Coral from Sicily.
see - https://antiqueeuropeanfiligree.blogspot.com/2023/10/holy-water-stoup-trapani-sicily.html
https://antiqueeuropeanfiligree.blogspot.com/2023/03/some-sicilian-silver-filigree-objects.html
The subject of Italian and Sicilian Silver Filigree merits a study of its own - unfortunately I have limited time and my knowledge of the Italian Language is sparse but I will return to it as and when I am able.
Diocesan Museum at Monreale Cathedral.
chalice in coral,
silver filigree and gilded copper, manufactured by the Trapani silversmith
Francesco Iacono in the 18th century.Duomo (Cattedrale di S. Maria Nu, Monreale
(PA), Sicilia/Sicily, Italia/Italy
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The Filigree here was perhaps manufactured by an émigré South German craftsman or a craftsman trained in Germany.
The ivory carvings suggested as by the workshop of Andrea Tipa of Trapani. Sicily.
The use of carved coral was the traditional art of Trapani, western Sicily.
The Tipa brothers, Alberto (1732-1783) and Andrea (1725-1766),
Size 30,6 x 31,1 cm
This piece was was formerly (January 2013) with Paris gallery - A La Facon de Venise.
https://www.alafacondevenise.fr/index_general.php
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Silver Filigree and Coral Holy Water Stoup.
with a coral figure of John the Baptist.
Museo Civico Filigrana Pietro Carlo Bosio. Campo Ligure.
Attributed to Franciscus Palumbo of Palermo, Sicily. (see below).
I am in touch with the museum and hope to better photographs in due course.
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Inkwell.
9 x 10 x 10 cm.
The Coral Trapani workshop.
Late 17th Century.
Sold by Pandolfini Auctions, Florence, Italy, Lot 286, 19 October 2021.
Constructed in gilded copper, coral and silver filigree, hexagonal in
shape with a rounded body in the lower part entirely decorated with floral
applications and stylised shoots interspersed with leaves arranged along the
corners, narrow neck on a flared edge chiseled with vegetal swirls with a lid
decorated similarly to the body, ending on six feet in the shape of winged
female figures, 9x10x10 cm
A. Daneu, The Trapani art of Coral , Palermo 1964
Images and information here courtesy - Pandolfini website -
https://www.pandolfini.it/uk/auction-1049/trapani-secolo-xvii-3-12021007383
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A TRAPANI-WARE GILT-METAL AND CORAL SET RELIQUARY.
Sicilian, late 17th century
Oval, the gilt body applied with gilt filigree flowerheads
and carved coral scrolls, the inset center with three carved ivory Franciscan
monks in aspect of devotion surrounded by seed pearls and small cabochon red
stones under glass, the top with a suspension ring, apparently unmarked
15.2cm long.
Lot 24 25 Oct, 2000.
https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-1904182
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For a brief look at the manufacture of Coral objects in Trapani see -
https://www.unmarediblu.it/en/the-street-of-workshops-and-coral/
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