拍品 20
A SPANISH BRASS-MOUNTED EBONY, TORTOISESHELL AND IVORY ARCHITECTURAL CABINET
LATE 17TH CENTURY
已結束2009年11月5日
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GBP 37,250
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Spanish cabinets of the papeleira and escritorio types executed in the 17th Century, which had developed from the 16th Century fall-front varguenos were very representative of the mudejar or Hispano-Moresque style. Varguenos were typically decorated with an architectural façade fitted with small ivory plaques and often embellished with bronze mounts while the Papeleiras, a later and more ostentatious adaptation of the vargueno, were fitted with neither a fall-front nor doors, and were often surmounted by a gilt-bronze gallery.
This striking cabinet is related to a tortoiseshell and bone-inlaid papeleira in the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Madrid (ill. M. Alonso, El Mueble en España, Siglos XVI-XVII, Madrid, 1993, p. 306).
This striking cabinet is related to a tortoiseshell and bone-inlaid papeleira in the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Madrid (ill. M. Alonso, El Mueble en España, Siglos XVI-XVII, Madrid, 1993, p. 306).