RARE ORATOIRE

RARE ORATORY
DEVOTION
in carved and painted wood
with gold highlights. The upper part opens
and resting on four columns in the lower part.
and resting on four columns
and two back jambs. The leaves
decorated with sculptures of Saints Peter and Paul
framed by the evangelists Saints John and Luke
alternating terms, two of which hold
cartouches with faded inscriptions.
Opens onto a gilded interior of eight columns
(including four half-columns) with a shell ceiling
and central drooping seed.
Spain, late 16th century.
Height: 154.5 cm - Width: 83.5 cm
Depth : 42 cm
(Damage, missing parts and restorations,
a transformation to the belt with a drawer
drawer)
This oratory, dedicated to the private devotion of a
the sculpture of a saintly figure and perhaps
of a saintly figure and perhaps a few relics
as was the custom in Spain at the time.
It differs from tabernacles containing the
Sacred Species by its large size and stand-alone
its stand-alone format. Indeed, the
tabernacle containing the Sacred Species cannot be
outside the main altar.