Bidspirit auction | A Missal stand

A Missal stand - carved and painted red teak with gold carvings Indo-Portuguese 16th/17th C. minor faults and defects, restoration of painting and gilding Dimensões (altura x comprimento x largura) - 33 x 29,6 x 35 cm Notes: vd. similar copy in the exhibition catalogue ”Vasco da Gama e a Índia”, held at the Sorbonne Chapel, Paris. Lisbon / Paris:  Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation / Chancellery of the Universities of Paris, 1998, pp. 134-135, No 76; and in the exhibition catalogue ”Os Espaços de um Império”, held at the Porto Customs Building. Porto: National Commission for the Celebrations of Portuguese Discoveries, 1999, p. 121, No 80.