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A wildfire broke out near the La Purisima Mission State Historic Park. The blaze burned 320 acres in the Burton Mesa Preserve, and despite threatening 1,200 structures, none were damaged.
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Mesa Altar
Probably early 18th Century
FILIPINO
Solid Narra wood.
Dimensions (LxHxD):
29 ½ x 49 ¼ x 27 ¾ in or 75 x 125 x 70.5 cm
Provenance:
Private Collection
Private Collection, Southern California
Sold at Bonham Auction Los Angeles
13-14 November 2017 as lot 775
Recently, I was privileged to have examined an extraordinary and exceedingly rare Mesa Altar (Altar Table). The Mesa Altar is of the Batangas type but possibly pre-dating that of the works of the Batangas I master.
The table exhibits most of the characteristics found on the Batangas mesa altars. The front presents a case piece consisting of two massive drawers similar to those of the works of the Batangas II Master.
The drawers are bracketed on each side by decorative flanges that recall the shape of birds found on Goanese carving of the early 18th century. This style reflects a more baroque influence rather than the lighter, airier rococo “Chinoiserie” style of the Batangas I master. In the alternative, the flanges could be reminiscent of the carvings of the Sari Manok, a totem of the Maranao people and a legendary bird found in Mindanao folklore.
Consistent with the Batangas manner, the tabletop is a mitered frame with a central floating panel secured by transvers braces. This type of tabletop has come to be known as the ‘Binandejera” style.
The drawers sit on Ming-style, squat cabriolet legs terminating in ogee feet. Interestingly and unlike the mesa altars crafted by the Batangas I or Batangas II masters, this table does not have stretchers. I have examined the ogee feet extensively and determined that the mesa altar was never constructed with stretchers!
The front of the table is ornamented with a decorative apron or “cinefa” cut in a symmetrical pattern of scalloped edges and trims.
The table may be short and squat but it exhibits monumentality of scale and massiveness of construction that, as observed by Floy Quintos, are the hallmark of Philippine antique furniture.
Condition is good for its age. Top with fading, water staining, ink staining and other signs of age and wear. General marks, nicks, scratches and rubbing overall. The hardware replaced with plug holes to drawer fronts. One lock missing. Scattered nick losses to carved elements, especially the feet, later support blocks to underside. No key.
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Mesa Altar
18th Century
Balayong, Narra, Lanite and Kamagong
H:34 1/4” x L:47 1/2” x W:28” (87 cm x 121 cm x 71 cm)
Opening bid: P 400,000
Provenance: Batangas
Lot 27 of the Leon Gallery auction on 18 February 2017. Please see www.leon-gallery.com for more details.
This balayong altar table with two drawers is an 18th century version of those made in the Ming Style that first appeared in the previous century. It stands on four S-shaped block or ogee feet supporting a platform made of a wide plank carved with a cyma molding on the outer edges.
Resting on the corners of the platform on bun feet are Ming Style cabriole legs with the curves of their legs becoming lateral ogees that swing to form the cusped arches of the aprons that run around the sides and front. The lower carcass frame that forms the drawer support is carved in front and at the sides with a convex molding flanked by concave ones on either side. The vertical grooved members on either side and between the drawers are edged with molding and inlaid in the middle with two vertical lines composed of kamagong and lanite.
Attached to the sides of the table, both in front and at the back, are flanges that taper towards the bottom and are jigsaw-outlined with ogive curves and cusps that form serrated crenulated edges.
The mesa altar’s two drawers each have a kamagong turned drawer pull and a keyhole appliquéd with an oval brass surround. The drawer faces are bordered with a kamagong and lanite line-inlaid rectangle having quadrant corners and a semicircle below the keyhole.
The top of the side table is made of a wide balayong floating panel miter-framed, binandeja-style, with planks of wood carved with cymatium moldings on the outer edges.
-Martin I. Tinio, Jr.
Este mes usted puede encontrar en las mesas del centro de documentación algunas publicaciones que han llegado recientemente a nuestro archivo:
Evento com a pedra event e encontro com a pedra event, 1975, Obra y Documento, Arte Acción, Centro Cultural de São Paulo, 2012 / Revista Suppe, Buenos Aires, 2010 / Itinerancias, Daniel Salamanca, Vanessa Londoño, Fátima Vélez, Gloria Esquivel, Maria Angélica Rios e Irene Rincón, Mirona, Bogotá, 2011 / Simulacro, Luisa Fernanda Lindo, Perú, 2010 / Just do it!, Una exhibición de María José Argencio, Ministerio de Cultura del Ecuador, 2011 / 4 serigrafías, De ida y vuelta, Paola López, Cali, 2012 / Anders Nilsen, Big Questions outakes and process zine, Estados Unidos, 2011 / Trastorno, Psychiatrical cocktails, 85/200, M79, Lesivo, Mefisto, Toxicómano, Notable, Seta, Chirrete, Kochino, ZoKoS, Colombia, 2009
Durante el debate de Aprendizaje-servicio e inclusión social.
Marta Azkarretazabal, Conxita Calvo, Roberto Flores, Luis María López-Aranguren, Cristina Palacio, José Larrauri, Charo Batlle.
The Monastery of Saint John the Baptist (Timios Prodromos) of Mesa Potamos as it is known, is situated between the villages of Platres, Saitas and Kato Amiantos, and is found on the southern slopes of the Troodos Mountain. Information for its establishment and its founders are unfortunately not known but it is considered to be of the same age as the other major Monasteries of Cyprus, namely Kykkos, Macheras, Trooditissa, Trikoukkia, Saint Nicholas tis Stegis, and others. The Monastery, dates back to the Byzantine period, and more precisely to the 12th century, during the same time the other monasteries in the region were build. This date can be witnessed by the icon of the 12th century, dedicated to Zoodochos Pigi (the Life Giving Source) of Saittiotissa which belonged to the Monastery. Around 1914, when the Monastery was destroyed by the Bishop of Kitium Meletios Metaxakis, the icon was transferred to the church of the Holy Cross, in the nearby village Kouka. In turn, during 2003, the icon was transferred to the Bishopric of Limassol. The first written historic testimony about the Monastery comes from a document of the Frankish king of Cyprus James II, who in 1468 granted to the abbot of the Monastery of Mesa Potamos, Father Gregory and his nephew, a quantity of wine and five " Byzantine Dinars" from the kazan (provincial department) of Koilani for each consecutive year and for lifetime.
Mesa Altar
Late 18th to the 1st Quarter of the 19th Century
Balayong, Kamagong and Brass
H: 35 1/2” x L : 55 1/2” x W: 26 1/2” (90 cm x 141 cm x 67 cm)
Starting Bid : Php 8,000,000
Provenance Batangas
A Mesa Altar by the Batangas Master 1
by Martin I. Tinio, Jr.
What we call a mesa altar nowadays was so-called because, when collectors and agents scouting for antiques in the 1960s first saw them, the tables were being used to hold the images of the household altar. In colonial inventories, however, they were simply described as ‘una mesa hecho en el Parian’, meaning that they were made in the Chinese quarter outside the Walled City. Through the riverine and coastal routes, these tables found their way to Laguna, Bulacan and Pampanga.
Only after the British left in 1768 were the Chinese in the Parian allowed to settle in the provinces, provided they married native women from the places they wanted to settle in. As a result, side tables with Ming-type cabriole legs began to be made in the Southern Tagalog, Central Luzon and the Ilocos Regions. Since a majority of them were found in Batangas in the 2nd half of the 20th century, there was a tendency to attribute them to that province, whenever the actual place of origin is unknown.
This particular mesa altar, made entirely of balayong, is typical of the 2nd half of the18th century and belongs to what is called nowadays as of the ‘Batangas I’ type. The most elaborate of all the altar tables produced in that province, it was found only in the homes of the richest families, so there are not too many of them extant.
The table stands on four square block feet with a pinched waist supporting a platform made of a wide balayong plank carved with a pair of parallel moldings on the outer edges. Resting on squashed balimbi feet at the corners of the platform are the Ming Style cabriole legs, their pointed bottoms turning upward in front, while the curves of their legs at the shoulders becoming lateral ogees that swing to form the cusped arches of the aprons.
The convex aprons at the front and the sides have curvilinear bottom edges of ogive curves and cusps that are jigsaw-outlined and shallow carved with foliate S scrolls in the shape of stylized Chinese dragons and clouds. A large ovate central reserve flanked symmetrically by a smaller, apple-shaped one divide the front apron, these, carved and reticulated with crossed lines with a square behind each intersection, form a pattern of diagonal rows of pierced crosses. Instead of a reticulated reserve, a beautifully carved scallop shell decorates the center of the side aprons.
The front edges of the horizontal lower base and drawer divider frames of the altar table are appliqued with a half round molding flanked by a receding pair of straight ones in kamagong. Those of the carcass and vertical drawer divider are trimmed with the same wood with a slat flanked by three narrow straight receding moldings on either side.
The mesa altar has three drawers, a wide one below and a pair of smaller ones above it. Each drawer, even the wide bottom one, has a solitary brass ring pull attached to a boss. The drawer faces are inlaid with a border of wide marquise-shaped lozenges of carabao bone separated by a couple of bone discs with a single disk at each corner.
A pair of elaborately outlined pierced flanges tapering downward is attached to each side of the cabinet in front and at the back. They are jig-sawed outlined and embellished with shallow carved stylized Chinese cloud scrolls around a pomme-shaped reserve reticulated with the same pattern as the aprons. The narrow molding frame above the drawers is decorated like an entablature with a dentil cornice that seemingly supports the top made from a floating balayong panel miter-framed, binandeja style, with wide planks. The front and sides edges of the top are carved with a cymatium molding ornamented with a wavy design, a most unusual pattern.
Lot 30 of the Leon Gallery auction on 1 December 2018. Please see www.leon-gallery.com for more details.
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