Jesse Waugh

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Museo de Sao Roque - Lisbon, Portugal

Sao Sebastiao
​Portugal, late 18th century
​Gilt and polychrome wood

The hyper-ornate church of Sao Roque stands just up the ​hill from the center of Lisbon - Baixa-Chiado. It has its own museum filled with Catholic treasures. A few pieces made it into the Pulchrist annals. Of note were the statuette of Saint Sebastian pictured above, the dove baldaquin shown below, and the Japanese missal stand also pictured below. The Japanese missal stand and accompanying box-shape (not shown) seemed to be made for (Portuguese?) export and bore obvious Persian details, specifically arch-shapes as can be seen in the bottom section of the piece shown below.

Joaquim Manuel da Rocha
​​"Sao Sebastiao"
​Portugal, 18th century
​Oil on canvas

​"Cristo Crucificado"
​Portugal, 18th century
​Polychrome wood and silver

​Baptismal shell
​Portugal (?), late 18th century
​Raised and hammered silver

​Viril
​Portugal, 19th century
​Silver with inlaid diamonds, amethysts and crystals

Leandro Gagliardi
​​Incense boat and spoon
​Rome, 1744-1750
​Chiselled and gilt silver

Felice Scifone
​Baldaquin
​Rome, 1744-1750
​Cast and chiselled gilt copper

Missal stand
​Japan, Momoyama period, 16th/17th century
​Lacquered wood with mother of pearl inlays​

​Door hanging
​China, 2nd half of the 17th century
​Silk velvet, satin, gold-wrapped thread and polychrome silks

There is an ivory Christ figure reflecting in the display glass in the middle of the tapestry shown above.​