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Moorish Spanish Saddle, Royal Armory of Madrid, Antique Print, 1851
€130
$145 · £110
Original print, not a reproduction.
Ships worldwide from the Netherlands, flat, insured and tracked. 14-day returns.
- Date
- 1851
- Technique
- Chromolithograph
- Coloring
- Printed in color
- Condition
- Good. Light age toning, a little darker toward the edges; occasional small spots in the margins; light handling wear to the corners. Please see the images.
- Collection
- Knights & armor
- Era
- 1816 to 1899, Empire and industry
- Stock no.
- BG-12228-4-82
What the condition grades mean
- Excellent
- Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
- Very good
- Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
- Good
- Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
- Fair
- Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.
Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.
This is an original antique chromolithograph, printed in colors, from Le Moyen Âge et la Renaissance, lettered "SELLE MAURESQUE ESPAGNOLE. (Armeria reale de Madrid.)" A single shaped saddle piece fills the sheet, drawn flat, with a high curved top at the left and a deep notch cut into the right side. The central field is salmon pink, covered with olive green and gray arabesque scrolls, split leaves and small rosettes. Around it runs a wide border of gray green compartments, each holding a red flower among green leaves, separated by red lozenges, and the whole is outlined in dark brown with a thin red edge.
The running head "LE MOYEN-AGE ET LA RENAISSANCE." is at the upper left, and the section head "SELLERIE." (saddlery) is at the upper right. Beneath the image are the credits "Ferdinand Séré, del.", "Chromolith. Lemercier à Paris." and "Regamey, lith.", and below the caption "F. Séré direxit". The caption translates as: Moorish Spanish saddle. (Royal Armory of Madrid.) The plate was drawn by Séré himself and put on stone by Regamey.
Le Moyen Âge et la Renaissance was published in Paris in five volumes between 1848 and 1851. Paul Lacroix, who also wrote as the Bibliophile Jacob, edited the text, and Ferdinand Séré directed the illustrations, which is what the line "F. Séré direxit" on the plates records. The work surveys the customs, trades, sciences, arts and literature of Europe from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, and its plates reproduce furniture, metalwork, ceramics, manuscripts and other objects from public and private collections of the time. The plates are chromolithographs, printed in color from a series of stones rather than colored by hand. This plate comes from the fourth volume, issued in 1851.
The flat pattern and warm salmon, red and green make the sheet as decorative as a textile design, and it frames well alone.
Condition: Light age toning, a little darker toward the edges; occasional small spots in the margins; light handling wear to the corners.
This is an original antique print, not a modern reproduction. This item is sold unframed. Any framed or interior images are shown for presentation and inspiration only, unless the listing explicitly states that the item is sold framed.
