WALNUT AND IRON CUPBOARD. NAVARRA, SPAIN, 17TH CENTURY.
Antiques - Furniture
Reference: ZE398
Panelled cabinet. Oak wood, iron. Navarre, 17th century. It has some defects. It comes with three keys. This is a single-piece piece of furniture, not two parts, made of walnut wood. It consists of a lower section with two doors opening into a single compartment containing a shelf and two drawers with simple handles and lock escutcheons, and a slightly recessed upper section with two doors opening into another single compartment. The exterior is decorated with rectangular panels carved with simple geometric shapes (diamonds on the doors, curved shapes and bands on the drawers, and simple panels on the sides). Stylistically, it is reminiscent of typical forms of 16th-century Spanish Renaissance cabinetmaking, both in its composition and its paneled decoration. Compare it, for example, with a sideboard from Guipúzcoa in the Núria Pla Collection, dated between 1670 and 1700; with the 17th-century alcove (upper section with lattice doors) made of walnut, pine, and iron, now in the National Museum of Decorative Arts in Madrid; or with the 17th-century alcove with turned balusters in the Cervantes House Museum in Valladolid.
· Size: 137X67X170 cms
6.000 €
