Wall bracket for lamp

A lamp bracket with a rich plant decoration of flowers, leaves and interlaced pines, made with trimmed iron leaves. The provenance, artist and exact date of this magnificent piece of artistic ironwork is unknown, although, given its similarity with other works preserved in Seville, it is thought to have been produced locally and dates from around the 17-18th century.

The first parallel item preserved are the iron grilles in the chapels of San Isidoro and San Leandro in Seville Cathedral. The chapel of San Isidoro was built in the 17th century, while that of San Leando was produced as a copy of it in the 18th century. Both have grilles with rich plant decoration like this bracket's and while the artist of the grille in the chapel of San Isido is not known, we do know that the chapel of San Leandro was produced in 1734 by Francisco de Ocampo and Francisco Guzmán.

The second parallel item preserved is the balustrade of the main balcony of the house number 23 on calle O'Donnell in Seville. This balustrade, which also has a prodigious production in artistic ironwork, does not belong to the period of the building's construction, nor to the style of its façade. This may be because of modifications made to a fragment of the 17th-century grille from the church of the Cartuja de las Cuevas which separated the space of the ordinary worshippers from the unordained clerics. Apparently, after Englishman Charles Pickman bought this confiscated convent in 1838 to convert it into a china factory, he sold or gave away many of the building's features that were incompatible with the industrial use of the spaces. This fragment from the 17th century may have thus ended up as a balustrade for a balcony of a building built centuries later.