{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":50266,"auction_id":100,"set_id":132,"lot_number":"25","artist":"Attributed to Cirineo Gaudinez,\nFilipino architect","title":"Coconut and Silver Epergne (Centerpiece)","starting_price":200000,"signed_dated":"Filipino\n1870s","medium":"coconut shells, gold and solid silver (80%)","size":"H: 19\" (48 cm) D: 6 3/4\" (17 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Don Pedro Alejandro Paterno (1857– 1911) and\nDoña Luisa Piñeyro de Lugo y Merino (Sra. de Paterno, d. 1897)","exhibited":"Exposicion General de Las Islas Filipinas, 1887, Palacio de Cristal,\nParque de Retiro, Madrid;\nExposicion Historico-Americana, 1892 alongside the Exposicion\nHistorico Europe, Palacio de Biblioteca y Museos Nacionales\n(National Library and Museums) 1892, Parque de Madrid\n(formerly Parque de Retiro), Madrid\nExposicion Historico-Natural y Etnográfica, Palacio de Biblioteca\ny Museos Nacionales (National Library and Museums),\nParque de Madrid (formerly Parque de Retiro), Madrid, 1893\nExposición Regional Filipina, Manila, 1895","literature":"Catalogo General de la Expocision Historico- Americana, 1892,\nMadrid; Section S;\nNo. 82 under “Miscellaneous Objects Crafted with Metal” and\ndescribed as follows : “A centerpiece shaped to resemble the\n“anahaw” palm (Livistona), composed of.. a large black coconut,\nthe shell has been worked to look like hives of bees. The palm\ntree’s roots ate clustered with different herbs. This sculpture was\nmade by the celebrated Filipino architect Cirineo Gaudinez.”","write_up":"In the manner of the 1840s “Palitera”/“Palillera” and\ntraditional Filipino silverwork (mostly from Binondo\nand Santa Cruz districts in Manila), this native but\nsophisticated epergne/centerpiece features a halved\ncoconut shell sprouting out of a palm trunk set on round\nstylized ground supported by Neo–Renaissance/Isabelina\nplinth and urn feet. Along with the coconut shell, where\ndelectable sweet treats are put during gatherings,\nfourteen or more well–articulated “Anahaw” leaves of\nvarious sizes also sprout out of the trunk. The coconut\nshell itself also sprouts several smaller anahaw leaves\nand tiny native flowers in imitation of a small bouquet\nto top the epergne. To a patriotic Filipino, it is a very\ncharming piece.\nThe article “Un Meseo y un The” in the Spanish\n“El Correo” newspaper” 22 January 1884 issue reported\nwith bated breath: “Beautiful objects filled each wall and\nfloor of every room and corridor inside La Casa de Molo\n(Madrid)... On the table was a curious–looking tea set\nmade of coconuts mounted on the precious metals of gold\nand silver; expensive antique cups and glasses; shells\nand mother–of–pearl; and a clay bust of the homeowner\nsculpted by Mariano Benlliure... Other closets held Pedro’s\ncoconut collection which came in all sizes and colors:\nwhite, ebony, gray, stained black --- mounted on a clear\nbase and so polished that one wouldn’t recognize them\nas coconuts. The gold– and silver–rimmed and handled\ncoconut tea set took its place of prominence here.”\n“Catalogo General de la Exposicion Historico–\nAmericana de Madrid 1892,” Tomo II, Section S, under\nMiscellaneous Objects Crafted with Metal lists two\nsimilar centerpieces to this Coconut and Silver Epergne/\nCenterpiece: #82. “A centerpiece shaped to resemble\nthe ‘anahaw’ palm (Livistona), composed of 2 pieces: the\n1st in the form of a large black coconut, the 2nd a much\nsmaller white coconut. Their shells have been worked\nto look like hives with bees. The palm tree’s roots are\ncluttered with different herbs. It also features the figure\nof a native woman carrying with her arms a “bilao,” a\nbasket shaped like a wide plate. This sculpture was made\nby celebrated Filipino architect Cirineo Gaudinez. #83.\n“A centerpiece, resembling a large coconut with copper\nbase shaped as its tree trunk, with 2 silver branches and vine segments on either side. It is the work of the\nrenowned silversmith from Santa Cruz (Manila), Don\nMariano de Jesus.”\nWhile Filipinos had been drinking and eating off\ndried coconut shells for centuries, and that embellishing\nthem with worked silver in the 1870s was a natural\nstep towards their upliftment and gentrification, it was\nsuggested that Pedro Paterno could have also taken\ninspiration from the traditional Mexican “tecomate” cups\nfor this set: from Mexican dried calabash gourd (Cresentia\ncujete aka “cuastecomate” and “jicara”) to Filipino dried\ncoconut (Cocos nucifera aka “niyog”). Tecomate cups\nof dried gourd decorated with silver, a metal plentiful\nin Mexico, were used for drinking mezcal. Mezcal is a\nconcentrated alcoholic beverage derived from any type\nof maguey; it is a type of tequila, in the same way that\nscotch and bourbon are types of whiskey.\nThis innovative centerpiece was most likely\ncommissioned in the 1870s by a homesick Paterno\n\nthrough his sisters from the Santa Cruz or San Sebastian\nsilversmiths --- Deveras, Ygnacios, Pinedas, and Zamoras\n--- who were all their relatives; his artistic sisters probably\nsupervised its execution --- Agueda, Jacoba, Paz, and\nTrinidad (Dolores the pianist and composer passed away\nyoung). One hundred fifty years later, it still speaks\neloquently of Paterno’s profound love for his native\nFilipinas, a patriotism so deep twenty–three years and\nmore in Spain could only increase, not diminish it.\nThis unusual native epergne/centerpiece was\nthought lost to time until it resurfaced with a group of\nsingular objects owned by Don Pedro Paterno from the\nestate of his wife Doña Luisa Piñeyro y Merino in Spain.\nIt was well–documented in photographs as one of the\nFilipino decorative pieces Paterno used to exhibit in his\nFilipino pavilions during international expositions. The\nobjects remained in the Piñeyro residence when the\nchildless Paterno couple returned to Filipinas in the\n1890s; Doña Luisa passed away in Manila in 1897; Don\nPedro passed away 14 years later in 1911. The Piñeyro\nfamily did not express any interest to claim anything from\nDon Pedro’s estate. With its reappearance, the circle of\nprovenance has been completed.","lot_group":"OBJET D' ARTS","lot_details_html":"<p><strong>Attributed to Cirineo Gaudinez, </strong><br /><strong>Filipino architect</strong><br /><em>Coconut and Silver Epergne (Centerpiece)</em> <br />Filipino<br />1870s <br />coconut shells, gold and solid silver (80%) <br />H: 19\" (48 cm) D: 6 3/4\" (17 cm)</p>","alias":null,"hp":650000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":650000,"userBid":5926,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":759200,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":50323,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/100/132/lot/25.jpg","isFeatured":1},{"id":50327,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/100/132/lot/25c.jpg","isFeatured":0},{"id":50325,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/100/132/lot/25b.jpg","isFeatured":0}]},"increment":[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":24,"next":26,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}