Modern and Contemporary Ages

Name: Jacket fragments from the Beltrán-Ausó Collection

Description: This is a satin waistcoat or jacket. It is made of blue, green, yellow, salmon-pink, brown, blunt and corded threads. It has a slight V-neckline with embroidered phytomorphic and geometric decoration, and two horizontal pockets with a mixtilinear cover. It has twelve lined, circular, bulging buttons on the right side and twelve buttonholes on the left. The leaves are decorated with small flower-stippled decoration. It was repaired several times in its time.

Chronology: 1770

Location: Beltrán-Ausó Collection, Alicante.

Material: Satin, silk, linen.

Technique: Weaving and embroidery.

Dimensions: Height, 68cm; width, 47cm.

Name: Beltrán-Ausó collection game box and pack of playing cards

Description: This is a game box decorated with Chinese motifs. Octagonal in shape, it contains seven little boxes with lids and twelve little trays.

It is made of wood, lacquered in black and painted in gold with some touches of red only on the female characters. Inside the boxes are a series of mother-of-pearl tokens (140) and seven decks of playing cards: four English and three Spanish.

The decoration on the lid of the box is the central one and depicts four buildings surrounded by greenery, in front of which a series of Chinese characters go about their daily chores. There are a total of ten characters, nine of whom are conversing in four groups. Around this scene there is mainly abundant plant decoration, and there are four figures in the corners.

Four different scenes from everyday life are also depicted on the sides, separated at the corners by a single character each time.

Chronology: Contemporary, 19th century.

Location: Beltrán-Ausó Collection, Alicante

Material:Wood

Technique:

Dimensions: Height, 29.2cm; width, 36.4cm; thickness, 11.4cm.

Name: Sewing machine from the Quiles-Antón collection

Description: Sewing machine made of iron. It has several layers of black paint and geometric decoration (diamonds, circles...). The whole mechanism sits on the base box. It works by turning a wheel with a crank that moves the knees and the shaft that operates the needle. On the upper part there is a screw for attaching the thread bobbin.

Chronology: 18th-19th centuries

Location: Quiles Antón Collection, Alicante.

Material: Iron

Technique:

Dimensions: Height, 22.5cm; length, 23cm; width, 11.6cm.

Name: Theatre glasses of the Togores-Manero collection

Description: These are theatre glasses or binoculars, also called twins or theatre glasses. They consist of a black painted bronze frame and glass lenses. They have a distance adjustment system and are adjustable.

Chronology: Contemporary, (19th-20th centuries)

Location: Roca de Togores-Manero Collection, Alicante

Material: Bronze

Technique: Cast and applied

Dimensions: Length, 13cm; width, 9.4cm; maximum diameter, 6.4cm.