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    VENTALL FILIPÍ  
Beltrán Ausó Collection


Paper, os i teles
h: 35 cm; w: 19.5 cm
XIX Century


 

Window with ultra-semicircular varnishing in glazed and fretworked ivory. Varetes capçaleres with fine carving of everyday scenes. Paper country with a painted Xinese scene in gouache with fabric appliqués for the characters' clothes and painted and glued ivory laminates for the faces. Reversed with the same technique for the xine scene. Metal nail and pin.
At the end of the 19th century, following the fashion imposed by Queen Isabella II in Spain, these Philippine-made windows became commonplace and were exported in the wake of the Xinese decorations and motifs that were so popular in Europe during the Vuitcentista period. They are large folding windows with carved and fretworked ivory varnish and with the country decorated in a bigarrada form by successive scenes with a multitude of Xinese figures in settings of terraces, pavilions, stairs and margins painted with water but with the particularity of the application of thin sheets of painted ivory for the face and of fragments of tissue for the clothes.
CS: 11220
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