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Important Life-Size Colonial Captive Christ, workshop of Manuel Chili Caspicara (1723, Quito – 1796) Royal Court of Quito 18th century, Ecuador This exceptional piece, with very fine and exquisite details and expression, is made of carved and polychrome ruby red wood. Measurements: 102 x 52 x 44 cm, Christ only measurements: 85 x 45 x 32 cm. Due to its physiognomy in the face and expression, as well as its exquisite details in the hands and cross, we must frame it by period and style in the artistic production of the universal Quito sculptor Manuel Chili Caspicara (1723, Quito – 1796), cross and powers made of fine silver embossed Provenance: important Spanish family collection. Lot not subject to reserve and unpublished in the Spanish art and auction market. Bibliography: America and Spain in Quito colonial sculpture: history of a syncretism, by Ximena Escudero-Albornoz, Ximena Escudero de Terán, published by Ediciones del Banco de los Andes, 1992. ISBN 9978-82-293-3, 9789978822937.
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Important Life-Size Colonial Captive Christ, workshop of Manuel Chili Caspicara (1723, Quito – 1796) Royal Court of Quito 18th century, Ecuador This exceptional piece, with very fine and exquisite details and expression, is made of carved and polychrome ruby red wood. Measurements: 102 x 52 x 44 cm, Christ only measurements: 85 x 45 x 32 cm. Due to its physiognomy in the face and expression, as well as its exquisite details in the hands and cross, we must frame it by period and style in the artistic production of the universal Quito sculptor Manuel Chili Caspicara (1723, Quito – 1796), cross and powers made of fine silver embossed Provenance: important Spanish family collection. Lot not subject to reserve and unpublished in the Spanish art and auction market. Bibliography: America and Spain in Quito colonial sculpture: history of a syncretism, by Ximena Escudero-Albornoz, Ximena Escudero de Terán, published by Ediciones del Banco de los Andes, 1992. ISBN 9978-82-293-3, 9789978822937.
