Lot 139
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A SPANISH GILT-METAL MOUNTED, BONE-INLAID AND PARCEL-GILT WALNUT 'VARGUENO'
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A SPANISH GILT-METAL MOUNTED, BONE-INLAID AND PARCEL-GILT WALNUT 'VARGUENO'

17TH CENTURY, THE ASSOCIATED 17TH CENTURY WALNUT STAND WITH REPLACED CENTRAL STRETCHER

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A SPANISH GILT-METAL MOUNTED, BONE-INLAID AND PARCEL-GILT WALNUT 'VARGUENO'
17th century, the associated 17th century walnut stand with replaced central stretcher
The rectangular top above a fall-front mounted with velvet-backed pierced metal lozenges, enclosing an architectural interior fitted with doors, drawers and secret drawers, decorated with spirally turned ivory columns, lozenge-shaped panels and painted ivory plaques, the sides with carrying-handles, on a stand with shell-carved lopers and spirally turned end-supports, each flanked by further turned and stop-fluted columns and joined by a balustraded stretcher, on scroll-carved plinths, missing three finials to the stretcher, restorations to the stand
61½ in. (156 cm.) high; 43¾ in. (111 cm.) wide; 19 in. (49 cm.) deep
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium

Lot Essay

The scallop shell-carved drawer handles and pull-sliders, the badge of Santiago, St. James the Great, also feature on a closely related vargueño in the collections of The Hispanic Society of America (illustrated G. Hardendorff Burr, Hispanic Furniture: From the Fifteenth though to the Eighteenth Century, New York, 1964, pp.148-9, fig. 138, S76).

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