Lot Essay
A related vargueno with similar architectural facade in the Museo des Artes Decorativas, Madrid is illustrated in M. P. Aguil Alonso, El Mueble en Espaa Siglos XVI-XVII, Madrid, 1993, p. 289, fig. 215
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FIRST HALF 17TH CENTURY
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A SPANISH BAROQUE PARCEL-GILT WALNUT AND BONE VARGUENO
First half 17th Century
The case with three pairs of recessed drawers flanking a central door applied with an architectural facade above a further drawer, each flanked by spiral-turned columns, the sides with carrying handles, on a later stand with ring-turned uprights centering an arched stretcher on a trestle base, the central architectural pediment replaced
49in. (116.5cm.) high, 33in. (77.5cm.) wide, 12in. (29.5cm.) wide
First half 17th Century
The case with three pairs of recessed drawers flanking a central door applied with an architectural facade above a further drawer, each flanked by spiral-turned columns, the sides with carrying handles, on a later stand with ring-turned uprights centering an arched stretcher on a trestle base, the central architectural pediment replaced
49in. (116.5cm.) high, 33in. (77.5cm.) wide, 12in. (29.5cm.) wide
Provenance
(According to a label on the reverse):
Baron Zwedineck, Austria-Hungarian Ambassador to the United States
Washington Gallery, Washington D.C.
Baron Zwedineck, Austria-Hungarian Ambassador to the United States
Washington Gallery, Washington D.C.