A SPANISH GILTMETAL-MOUNTED WALNUT ESCRITORIO-ON-STAND

TOLEDO, FIRST HALF 17TH CENTURY

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A SPANISH GILTMETAL-MOUNTED WALNUT ESCRITORIO-ON-STAND
Toledo, first half 17th century
The rectangular top above a hinged fall-front decorated with a pierced foliate lock plate, enclosing a fitted interior with thirteen drawers and two doors, each enclosing a plain interior, the central section decorated as a palatial faade, the stand with ring-turned stop-fluted legs and spirally-fluted and gadrooned central supports, joined by a pierced arcaded stretcher decorated with paterae and interlaced medallions on moulded scrolling bases, the stand with some later elements and possibly associated, restorations, one drawer inscribed 'Luisa Felipa'
59 in. (151 cm.) high; 42 in. (107 cm.) wide; 17 in .(44.5 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The 1597 design for a related escritorio, with three horizontal sections and a similar door and drawer-arrangement, executed by Jernimo de Villanueva, who hailed from Cuenca, establishes important links between the architectural decoration of this type of furniture and the faades of Spanish edifices of that period from which they clearly derive. An almost identical example is illustrated in Mara Paz Aguilo, El Mueble en Espaa, Siglos XVI-XVII, Madrid, 1993, p. 284

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