{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":59810,"auction_id":186,"set_id":220,"lot_number":"95","artist":"Lumban-type Inmaculada Concepción","title":null,"starting_price":500000,"signed_dated":"18th century","medium":"molave","size":"H: 34\" (86 cm)<br/>\nL: 13\" (33 cm)<br/>\nW: 10\" (25 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Ambeth Ocampo<br/>\nRomeo Jorge","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"The last piece is an 18th century Inmaculada Concepción (Immaculate Conception) which Ambeth Ocampo has acquired from the fabled Romeo Jorge collection. This comes from the same carving school as Eugenio “Gene” Lopez’s blockbuster Theotokos from Lumban, Laguna in the last auction. As previously written, Lumban was an important settlement even before the arrival of the Spaniards and during the colonial period. It has a vibrant carving scene that produced some of the most beautiful and accomplished colonial carvings, the most known and desired of all are the Virgin Mary images produced in the 17th and 18th centuries now known in the collecting world as the Lumbantypes. Just like Gene Lopez’s Theotokos, Ambeth’s Inmaculada also carry the diagnostics of a Lumban carving from the form to the carving style. It too once had bulging eyes or “luwang mata” which is stereotypical of the period, but were also later replaced with glass eyes when they became fashionable during the 19th century. \n\nThis specimen is 34 inches in height, which is bigger than most Lumban-types that only range between 20 to 25 inches. So far, this is the tallest of this type that ever came out in the market. It is also important to note that in that period, almost all images of the Virgin Mary produced by the Lumban carving school are “Theotokos” or carrying the Christ child, but this is an Inmaculada which is extremely rare and exceptional for a Lumban-type. \n\nUnlike the Theotokos which is universally accepted in the Catholic Church since its inception, the dogma of the Inmaculada Concepción was still contested and challenged during the 18th century. At that time, the Dominicans still openly rejected the rendition of the Virgin Mary without a child. Meanwhile, the Franciscans and the Jesuits, while mortal rivals, were the ones actively propagating the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception. Laguna, where Lumban is, is a Franciscan ecclesiastical territory. Since they started their work of evangelization in the last quarter of the 1500s in the area that extends from Laguna to Bicol, they opened art schools throughout their jurisdiction to instruct young men in sculpture and iconography. This special emphasis on ecclesiastical arts is said to be their way of compensating their vow of poverty. The Lumban carving school too must have operated under their guidance.","lot_group":"OBJET D' ARTS","lot_details_html":null,"alias":null,"hp":1800000,"bp":0.2016,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":1800000,"userBid":34,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":15356,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":2162880,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":65304,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/186/220/lot/95.jpg","isFeatured":1},{"id":65627,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/186/220/lot/95b.jpg","isFeatured":0},{"id":65547,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/186/220/lot/95a.jpg","isFeatured":0}]},"increment":[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":94,"next":96,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}