{"status":true,"msg":{"data":{"id":38612,"auction_id":53,"set_id":81,"lot_number":"72","artist":"Silver Tabernacle","title":"1st Half of the 19th Century","starting_price":1200000,"signed_dated":null,"medium":"Silver And Kamagong","size":"H:62 1/2” x L:39 1/4” x W:18 1/2” (159 cm x 100 cm x 47 cm)","property":null,"coa":null,"provenance":"Richard and Sandra Lopez Collection","exhibited":null,"literature":null,"write_up":"The 2nd Vatican Ecumenical Council (Vatican II) of 1959 modernized the thinking and rituals of the Catholic Church.  The vernacular language, instead of Latin, was used in the Mass, ornate clerical regalia went into disuse and the priest celebrated Mass facing the congregation.  Until then, Roman Catholic churches had an ornamented receptacle or cabinet on or above an altar in which a pyx containing the reserved sacrament was kept.  From then on, the tabernacle, as it was called, could be placed anywhere in the apse. \nThe tabernacle in early colonial churches was usually made of wood and many beautifully carved ones in molave are still extant.  As towns became more prosperous and churches became bigger, tabernacles, too, were upgraded and silver became the material of choice for the richer parishes.   \nThis particular piece is quite outstanding because of its size and must have belonged to a rich and large church.  Originally, the wooden base  was enveloped in beaten silver, but only the central panel remains.  The latter, featuring a central disk embossed and chased with a cross  is symmetrically surrounded by beautifully embossed and chased clusters of leaves, roses and sampaguitas.  \nThe tabernacle itself, entirely of silver, is designed like the columned façade of a church with an arched doorway flanked by a pair of engaged  columns with chased acanthus leaf capitals.  The tabernacle door, embossed and chased to resemble a curtained alcove, has a pair of oval shields at the bottom center within a beaded rosary beneath a crown.  The oval on the left is decorated with a Dominican cross.  A spray of embossed and chased flowers and leaves, no two of which are alike, symmetrically flank the rosary.  The rest of the doorway opening is taken by  a monstrance resting on a bed of clouds flanked by a kneeling angel swinging a censer. The top and sides of the arch have fringed curtains  tied into swags with tasseled ropes. \nA full entablature above the columns is topped by urn-shaped finials above each column and crowned by a baroque pediment-like frontispiece with symmetrical slightly S-curved sides surmounted by a cross.  The pediment is decorated with a border of leaves framing a large design of flowers and leaves, all executed in ysod or wriggle-work engraving.  This method of engraving, done with a V-shaped chisel or burin, was used to decorate flat silver surfaces from the late 17th to the 19th century.  The process, which involved running the burin in a zigzag manner over the design, required a steady hand so that the spaces and the edges of the engraved wriggled patterns were even.  The process is no longer being done today.   \n-Martin I. Tinio, Jr.","lot_group":"Objet D' Arts","lot_details_html":"<p><strong>Silver Tabernacle</strong><br /><em>1st Half of the 19th-Century</em><br />Silver and Kamagong<br />H:62 1/2&rdquo; x L:39 1/4&rdquo; x W:18 1/2&rdquo; (159 cm x 100 cm x 47 cm)</p>","alias":null,"hp":2000000,"bp":0.168,"isWithdrawn":0,"accounting_hp":2000000,"userBid":5926,"isPaid":0,"userId":22,"lot_status":"SOLD","isDone":1,"bid_history_id":null,"reserve_price":null,"hammer_price":2336000,"fav":0},"image":[{"id":36891,"img_url":"https://leongallery.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/v2/auction/53/81/lot/72.jpg","isFeatured":1}]},"increment":[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":71,"next":73,"count_bid":0,"bid_history":[],"tokenExpired":1}