Jarro de Pico, late 16th century, Spanish, Valladolid, Silver, parcel-gilt, Overall (confirmed): max ht. 7 5/8; ht
Jarro de Pico, late 16th century, Spanish, Valladolid, Silver, parcel-gilt, Overall (confirmed): max ht. 7 5/8; ht. from upper edge of body: 6 5/16 x 8 3/8 x 4 3/16 in., (; 16 x x cm, 04kg), Metalwork-Silver, A luxury utensil of near-mythic status, the jarro de pico was the quintessential domestic object of the so-called golden age of Hispanic silver. These ornately beaked ewers, intended for hand washing at the tables of the wealthy, typically meld elements of Renaissance style with the geometrically conceived forms of the Philip II and Philip III periods, or the last half of the sixteenth and early part of the seventeenth century
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