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Museos Horta Sud

Pianola From 1895 to 1938 approximately, pianoles like this one were made. Pianoles had a mechanical system similar to that of a piano, in fact they could be played as such, but they contained a pneumatic mechanism that allowed the reproduction of musical pieces by...

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Museos Horta Sud

Oil lamp The vetlon or oil lamp combines its functional character with the ornament. Made of cast bronze, it has a tank where the oil (low quality) is placed and four arms for which a torçuda or cotton wick was pointed. The polished bronze screen propagated and...

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Museos Horta Sud

Basin or urinal Urinal or basin embedded in a wooden stool with a lid. It was common to have a toilet in the bedroom so as not to go out to the patio at night to relieve oneself. Very often, families had a chamber pot under the bed. This one served as a latrine, as it...

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Museos Horta Sud

Catret o Scissor chair The catret is a scissor chair with a wooden structure and a seat made up of leather strips. This folding chair, used to go to the church during the first decades of the 20th century, visualizes the long and contradictory process of conquest of...

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Museos Horta Sud

Handwasher The handwasher performed the functions of the current washbasin. In essence, it is a furniture that contains a bowl and was complemented with a porcelain jar and a basin to get the water that ran through the slip of the lever. Until the second decade of the...

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Museos Horta Sud, Sin categoría

Mother and Child Painting Originally from a matrimonial bedroom, the piece shared space in the home with other Marian devotional images or those dedicated to the Sacred Heart. But the iconographic kinship that traces this Virgin and Child is more extensive. It has...