Spain

Back of a matador's jacket, Chinchon, Spain

Gold / Maria Josefa Mine, Rodalquilar, Almería, Spain

Spanish Hebrew Bible, Solsona, Catalonia, Spain, 1384. Tetragrammaton BL King’s MS I, f. 2r.  © The British Library Board

Qur’an, Granada, Spain, 13th century. Part 39 of a Qur’an in 60 parts. Chapter 27, al-Naml (The Ant), verse 92 to Chapter 28, al-Qasas (The Narrative), verse 3 BL Or. MS 12523C, ff. 14v–15.  © The British Library Board

Barcelona Haggadah, Catalonia, Spain, 14th century. Mnemonic for Passover BL Add. MS 14761, f. 24v. © The British Library Board

Crown. Spain, ca. 1600. Copper-gilt, pierced, set with enamelled silver bosses, enamelled gold rosettes and glass pastes. © VA Images.

Crown. Spain, ca. 1600. Copper-gilt, pierced, set with enamelled silver bosses, enamelled gold rosettes and glass pastes. Copyright: © V&A Images. All Rights Reserved

Exceptinoal blue fluorite on quartz. La Viesca Mine, Huergo, La Collada mining area, Siero, Asturias, Spain. photo Heritage Auctions Fluorite is one of the minerals everybody loves and can afford. The fact that it is widely available and generally inexpensive sometimes obscures another fact: it can also occur in forms both rare and highly desirable, especially to connoisseurs. All of the factors that define a superlative specimen are present in this exceptional Spanish blue Fluorite: color, size, aesthetics of... [Lire la suite]

Cristo Morto. Spain, 17th ct. photo Nagel Auktionen Ivory, carved in full round. Three tips of the fingers and the left toe missing. Damages, replacements. H. 23 cm. Estimate 1800 € Nagel Auktionen. February 16th 2012. www.auction.de 

Saint Sebastian. Spain, 15th-16th ct. photo Nagel Auktionen Hardwood, carved in full round. Lower part damaged. Arrows missing. Original polychromy. Damages. H. 58,5 cm. Estimate 2 500 € Nagel Auktionen. February 16th 2012. www.auction.de