Lot 497

A 19th Century Walnut Bargueño on Stand in the 16th century style. The top having a hinged frieze rail to the front, intricately decorated with carved tracery and rising to reveal a secret compartment. The fall-down facade mounted with a round pierced sheet iron escutcheon with cast Gothic hasp backed in crimson velvet and flanked by circular mounts with sliding catches cast in the form of snails. The interior housing a variety of drawers ornamented with tracery carving and edged with moulding, incorporating two small side cupboard finely carved with profiled portrait heads displayed against cobalt blue painted grounds, flanking an arched compartment lined in crimson damask. The stand with conforming tracery ornamentation and small Romayne panels to the arcaded railing connecting the spiralling supports. 57¾” (147 cm) high, 40½” (103 cm) wide, 17” (43 cm) deep.

Sold for: £1800

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Description

A 19th Century Walnut Bargueño on Stand in the 16th century style. The top having a hinged frieze rail to the front, intricately decorated with carved tracery and rising to reveal a secret compartment. The fall-down facade mounted with a round pierced sheet iron escutcheon with cast Gothic hasp backed in crimson velvet and flanked by circular mounts with sliding catches cast in the form of snails. The interior housing a variety of drawers ornamented with tracery carving and edged with moulding, incorporating two small side cupboard finely carved with profiled portrait heads displayed against cobalt blue painted grounds, flanking an arched compartment lined in crimson damask. The stand with conforming tracery ornamentation and small Romayne panels to the arcaded railing connecting the spiralling supports. 57¾” (147 cm) high, 40½” (103 cm) wide, 17” (43 cm) deep.