WALNUT TABLE WITH WROUGHT IRON FASTENERS, SPAIN, 17TH CENTURY.

Dining table in walnut wood and wrought iron fasteners. Spain, 17th century. With restorations. Rectangular board table on two lyre legs with animated edges with curves and countercurves that have been secured to the table by two S-shaped wrought iron fasteners, with balustraded areas towards the center and decorated with discs where the latter two meet. . The top part, really simple and with clean lines, clearly shows that it is a piece of furniture created for purely utilitarian purposes. However, its size places it in a house of purchasing power: this meant that it was always seen in the same place, but dressed in quality fabric and with a series of important pieces on top of ceramics, silverware, glass..., the which were especially appreciated by the owner. For this reason, it is the lower part that does present a little more work with the lyre legs with their profiles animated by curves and countercurves and small semicircular moldings, elements that, due to their movement, place the work within the Baroque. These sinuous shapes are also seen in the retainers, tubular with a baluster shape towards the center and highlighted by discs in two sizes. Walnut wood was the wood most often used in the furniture of the time in Spain, and its shapes also respond to this origin. Although its presence was frequent in houses of a certain level, not so many examples have been preserved due to changes in taste and in uses and customs over the centuries. Noteworthy, for example, is the one in the Hall of Signatures of the Viana Palace in Córdoba, the one in the dining room of the Lope de Vega House Museum in Madrid, one in the National Museum of Decorative Arts in Madrid (CE inventory 27479), and one another in the Patio Elcano of the building called the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Madrid (Plaza de Santa Cruz).

· Size: 229x89x81 cms.