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SILVERSMITH´S

Palette horse whip.

Palette horse whip. Punch: J. Carricarte. Entre Ríos. Late nineteenth century.


With its chiselled head or pommel with leaf and flower motifs, with two half-round sockets and its handle with twisted handles. The body can be seen retouched in leather, with a striking soaje -a kind of ring- woven in tents, loose, which rotates in its place, very close to the rectangular segment -the "palette", which gives rise to its denomination-, where the market is born Towards the knob -this one spherical- the author's mark can barely be seen, apparently: J. CARRICARTE. Measures. Knob: 14cm. Total length: 98 cm.


The design of these whips spread throughout a good part of the Argentine geography, replacing the so-called "ring-shaped", those that had their shorter body, lined in silver with a kind of cane (sometimes this piece is confused with that of a footrest) whose equator is wider, and towards the pommel an important silver ring that crowned the end to which the handle was fixed, generally also made of silver. The new version brings together different variants; There are some with the body lined with silver, decorated with the fine work of a rope -with different silver rings- and as in this case, well stripped, just with its pommel chiseled in the noble metal.


As for its author, Adolfo Luis Ribera, he locates a silversmith -J. Carricarte- located in La Paz, Entre Ríos, in the 1869 census and mentions “a silversmith's mark on some pieces of rural silverware, considered to be from Entre Ríos”. [1]


Note:

1. A. L. Ribera, Dictionary of Rio de la Plata Goldsmiths. XVI to XX centuries, Buenos Aires, National Endowment for the Arts, 1996, p. 123, note 569.

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AUTHOR J. CARRICARTE

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