Small nave. Silver. SANZ DE VELASCO, Juan Antonio. Valladolid, Spain, 18th century.
 With contrasting marks. It has repairs at the base and flaws in the cresting. 
 Small nave with a circular base raised towards the foot by a succession of stepped mouldings. Its body is decorated with a cresting on the edge and an engraved composition based on vegetal elements and volutes (on a background of chopped lustre, a finish that is also combined in the decorative motifs), a scalloped element on one side and a volute at the open end. The hallmarks on the base place the piece's making in Valladolid (note that it is the so-called "cut mark", which some experts date back to the time when Antonio González Téllez was named as the true hallmark). The other punch present is by Juan Antonio Sanz de Velasco (1720-1778), which served as the true hallmark in the city between 1743 and 1774/8. Apart from other works preserved with hallmarks by the master (many in private Spanish collections), it is worth highlighting the silver altar frontal of the Virgin of the Tabernacle (Valladolid Cathedral) by the Valladolid silversmiths Juan Antonio Sanz de Velasco and Miguel Fernández Yáñez de Vega, who completed in the last third of the 18th century a project begun in 1693 by the silversmith José de Aranda. The shape of the piece is typical of this type of container for holding incense (in fact, the name naveta comes from the word "nave") since the Middle Ages (nave of the Constables' Chapel in Burgos Cathedral by Juan de Valladolid from the 15th century), with variations in shape and decorative elements depending on whether it belonged to a particular centre, style, etc. Compare this piece with works preserved, for example, in the Diocesan and Cathedral Museum of Valladolid, another from the Museum of Navarre from Mexico and dated between 1634 and 1666, another from the 18th century in silver in its color from the Cathedral of Tuy (with a very different foot), etc. 
Weight: 348 grams. · Size: 16x10x9,5 cm

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