A CHINESE PEAR-SHAPED FAMILLE RSOE VASE, 19TH/20TH CENTURY The pear-shaped vase is well-enamelled around the bulbous body with four large stylized lotus blooms amidst a network of scrolling tendrils bearing other minor blooms, all reserved on a white ground and between a band of pendant ruyi heads around the rim and upright lotus petals around the base, above a keyfret chain.The bottom with a Chinese Jiaqing seal mark on a turquoise glazed ground. Height: 29 cm

Sunset in the Park, Francisco Torrescassana (Barcelona, ​​1845-ibidem, 1918), 19th century Catalan school Signed and dated 1875, canvas measurements: 46 x 35 cm, framed measurements: 52 x 40 cm. Spanish painter, disciple of Ramón Martí Alsina. Works by Torrescassana are preserved, among others, in the National Museum of Art of Catalonia, the Víctor Balaguer Library Museum, or the Museum of Art of Gerona, and the collection of Banco Sabadell, with a painting dedicated to the vintage in which the traditional realism that characterized much of his painting, closely linked to the teachings received from Martí Alsina, opens up to new studies of light. As for portraits, also abundant in his artistic production, the University of Barcelona keeps the portrait of Pablo González Huebra in the rectoral gallery, as well as in the dining room of Antoni Gaudí's Casa Vicens. Bibliography: Alcolea, Santiago, Paintings of the University of Barcelona. Catalog, University of Barcelona, ​​1980, ISBN 84-852-5721-9