{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":164,"auction_id":1,"set_id":1,"lot_number":"125","artist":"San Rocco De Montpellier","title":"Bohol","starting_price":80000,"signed_dated":"late 19th century","medium":"Polychromed “Baticuling” wood","size":"height: 33” (84 cm) width: 10” (25 cm) length: 12” (30 cm)","property":"PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED COLLECTOR","coa":null,"provenance":null,"exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"This early image of the Majorcan San Roque de Montpellier, the patron saint of epidemics (and one of the most frequently–invoked saints during the Spanish colonial period along with San Isidro Labrador for a good harvest and San Vicente Ferrer, OP for the healing of diseases), depicts the popular saint with his standard iconography of a pilgrim’s hat and cloak and a wound on his left thigh but interpreted in purely Filipino forms, colors, and context. The dedicated and painstaking work of a folk santero/carver, the concept is correct and the execution of the head, face, arms, torso, legs, and feet robust and delightfully awkward, but that is precisely where its importance and charm lies.<br /><br />Given the trend of today’s most active collectors of Filipino santos --- Paulino Que, Stanley Chan, Dr Toto Salgado, Floy Quintos, Romeo Allanigue, Dr Ambeth Ocampo, Atty Emil Maranon, Francis Ong --- This type of early, primitive, folk santo with its surreal features is the one most desired by the major collectors. The last major folk santo at a Leon Gallery auction was a famously primitive, hardwood Santa Maria Magdalena from the Benito J Legarda collection. Its appearance on the auction block caused a stir and bidding was ferocious among that tight circle.<br /><br />San Roque De Montpellier<br /><br /> San Roque was born in 1295 to rich parents in Montpellier, on the border of France. His father was a nobleman and the governor, his mother was an aristocrat. He was born with a birthmark of a red cross on his chest, which grew as he did. Roque was holy even in childhood and youth. At the age of twenty, his father appointed as governor of Montpellier, then passed away along with his mother. Roque gave away his large inheritance to the poor, joined the Franciscan Third Order, became a mendicant pilgrim and left for Rome.<br /><br />He arrived in Italy during a plague. He voluntarily tended to the sick in the hospitals in Rome and elsewhere, effecting many miraculous healings with prayer, the sign of the cross, and the touch of his hand. At Piacenza, he finally fell ill himself. He retreated to the forest and built himself a hut of branches and leaves; a spring miraculously arose beside it which provided him fresh water. A hunting dog of Conte Pallastrelli brought him bread everyday and licked his wounds. Conte Pallastrelli found Roque and brought him home to heal.<br /><br />Returning home incognito to Montpellier, Roque was suspected a spy by his own uncle and imprisoned, where he languished for five years without ever revealing his true identity. He passed away in 1327.","lot_group":"OBJET D' ARTS","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":160000,"bp":0.2016,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":160000,"userBid":7890,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":192256,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":137,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/1/1/lot/125.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[70000,80000,90000,100000,110000,120000,130000,140000,150000,160000,170000,180000,190000,200000,220000,240000,260000,280000,300000,320000,340000,360000,380000,400000,450000,500000,550000,600000,650000,700000,750000,800000,900000,1000000,1100000,1200000,1300000,1400000,1500000,1600000,1700000,1800000,1900000,2000000,2200000,2400000,2600000,2800000,3000000,3200000,3400000,3600000,3800000,4000000,4200000,4400000,4600000,4800000,5000000,5500000,6000000,6500000,7000000,7500000,8000000,8500000,9000000,9500000,10000000,11000000,12000000,13000000,14000000,15000000,16000000,17000000,18000000,19000000,20000000],"prev":124,"next":126,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}