PAINTED WOOD LECTERN

Lectern. Mexico, Around 1700 Carved and gilded wood. Mexican baroque lectern entirely made of carved and gilded wood. It has a prismatic shape, with the front inclined to facilitate the support of the book. Halfway up the front there is a flat corbel with a molded perimeter, like a cornice, on which is placed an oval recess that forms the center of the body of a double-headed eagle, the main motif of the decoration. The eagle appears from the front, with its wings folded and its legs resting on the volutes formed by the tail on the sides, with the two heads in profile forming a rigorously symmetrical composition, typical of the classicist baroque. Between the two heads is a crenellated crown, supported in its center by a flowering stem. On the sides, openwork like the front, we see the only element that tells us that we are looking at a piece from the 18th century, although still fully baroque. This is the rockery created in the Rococo period, in the first half of the 18th century, an ornamental element that will be widely used since then and consists of an abstract crest that evokes in its texture and lines the exterior of a shell.

· Size: 30x18,5x39 cms.