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Copa

Real Fábrica de Platería Martínez
1815

En el juego de tocador de plata dorada regalado por el Ayuntamiento de Madrid en 1816 a la reina María Isabel de Braganza, el platero Celestino Espinosa, autor del proyecto, incluyó seis botes o copas de cuerpo ovoide y tapa acampanada. Cuatro de las tapas están rematadas con la figura de un genio o amorcillo, que porta en sus manos elementos alusivos a las estaciones del año: primavera, verano, otoño e invierno.

María Isabel de Braganza debió de utilizar estos botes para guardar las pomadas y aceites con los que se acicaló en su vida diaria. Este, en concreto, alude al verano porque el amorcillo porta en sus manos un haz de espigas. Es una de las piezas más clásicas, que nos remiten a objetos inspirados en la Antigüedad grecorromana.

General Classification

Platería; Aseo e higiene

Type of Object

Copa

By

Real Fábrica de Platería Martínez

Collection or Series Title

Juego de tocador de Isabel de Braganza

Era / Cultural Context

Reinado de Fernando VII

Place of Production

Madrid

Date

1815

Subject

Plata

Technical

Fundido; Dorado

Dimensions

Fondo completo: (Altura: 17,5 centímetros; Anchura: 8 centímetros; Diámetro: 9,2 centímetros)

Inventory

10012400

Credits

Texto: Amelia Aranda Huete; Foto: Mario Sedeño

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Authors and Collectors

Real Fábrica de Platería Martínez
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Real Fábrica de Platería Martínez

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Ferdinand VII
Monarch

Ferdinand VII

(El Escorial (Madrid), 1784 - La Granja (Segovia), 1833)

The ninth of fourteen children born to Charles IV (1748-1819) and Maria Luisa of Parma (1751-1819), the future Ferdinand VII was sworn in as Prince of Asturias before the Cortes on 23rd September 1789, following the successive deaths of his older brothers. The Prince’s early years were spent under the tutelage of his caretaker, the Marquess of Santa Cruz, and his successive tutors, of whom the best known were Canon Escóiquiz and his teacher, Father Cristóbal Bencomo. As part of his education, Prince Ferdinand studied philosophy, grammar and Latin, as well as being introduced to music and drawing, the latter being taught by the painter Antonio Carnicero. 

Married four times, Ferdinand VII's wives were Princess María Antonia of Naples and...

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