Brazier. Copper. Possibly Castile, 16th Century.

Brazier. Copper. Possibly Castile, 16th century.
 Brazier made of copper with a circular base decorated with vertical bands, a low tubular shaft enhanced with a fine rope moulding and a semicircular body, with a wide mouth that flares outwards, and two metal handles in the shape of a half rectangle and a twisted part on the sides of the piece. These types of pieces were used in both civil and ecclesiastical interiors with the aim of warming the occupants of the room as much as possible, and they are rarely preserved because they were utilitarian elements that were discarded over time or when damaged.
They were usually objects intended for the upper class, and followed the same typologies whether they were intended for a sacristy or a private residence. The present case, possibly intended for use in a sacristy, shows a typology common in the Spanish school of the time. Compare, for example, with the brazier present in The Birth of the Virgin Mary of the Altarpiece assembled around 1520 by Pedro de Guadalupe from Valladolid and found in the church of San Esteban de Amusquillo (which presided over the main altar of the cathedral of Valladolid until 1676, when it was sold to the parish church of Renedo); or with that of the Birth of Saint Eloy by Pedro Núñez (1526-1529, MNAC, Barcelona). ·
Size: 25x25x15,5 cm