FRANCISCO DE SORIA HURTADO
Monstrance, 1685
Partially silver-gilt; casted, turned, chiseled, fretted and enameled
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
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
Provenance
Former Apelles Collection, Chile - England.Exhibitions
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.
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.