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A SPANISH ARCHITECTURAL MODEL OF AN ARCH IN THE ALHAMBRA, ENRIQUE LINARES STUDIO, GRANADA, CIRCA 1900 a gilt and polychrome idealised scale reduction in plaster relief representing a window arch, intricately patterned with borders of foliate arabesques, arcading, stylised foliage and calligraphy of the repeated Nasrid motto 'There is no greater conqueror than Allah' (Wala ghaliba illa Allah) surrounding the upper part of the wood latticed window, with 'tiled' decoration around the bottom half, inscribed to base 'No.26' and 'Enrique Linares Es propiedad.', in its rectangular ebonsied wood and glazed frame, 33 x 23.5cm excluding frame 3cm wide Enrique Linares Garcia started trading a variety of souvenir works from within the Alhambra in the 1870s, later expanding the business with his brother Abelardo to include photography studios. Following on from the success of Rafael Contreras and his models (see a Contreras model sold in these rooms, 22 November 2023, lot 51), Linares produced similar models to feed the growing appetite for 'Alhambrism'; see a model of the Torre de las Infantas made by Linares in the 1890s displayed at the Victoria & Albert Museum in the Architecture Gallery (Room 128, No.A.26-1936).
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A SPANISH ARCHITECTURAL MODEL OF AN ARCH IN THE ALHAMBRA, ENRIQUE LINARES STUDIO, GRANADA, CIRCA 1900 a gilt and polychrome idealised scale reduction in plaster relief representing a window arch, intricately patterned with borders of foliate arabesques, arcading, stylised foliage and calligraphy of the repeated Nasrid motto 'There is no greater conqueror than Allah' (Wala ghaliba illa Allah) surrounding the upper part of the wood latticed window, with 'tiled' decoration around the bottom half, inscribed to base 'No.26' and 'Enrique Linares Es propiedad.', in its rectangular ebonsied wood and glazed frame, 33 x 23.5cm excluding frame 3cm wide Enrique Linares Garcia started trading a variety of souvenir works from within the Alhambra in the 1870s, later expanding the business with his brother Abelardo to include photography studios. Following on from the success of Rafael Contreras and his models (see a Contreras model sold in these rooms, 22 November 2023, lot 51), Linares produced similar models to feed the growing appetite for 'Alhambrism'; see a model of the Torre de las Infantas made by Linares in the 1890s displayed at the Victoria & Albert Museum in the Architecture Gallery (Room 128, No.A.26-1936).
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