LOW TABLE. WALNUT, WROUGHT IRON. SPAIN, 17TH CENTURY.

Table with fork fasteners. Walnut wood, wrought iron. Spain, 17th century. Table made of carved and turned walnut wood with four A-shaped legs, two wrought iron hairpin supports and drawers on both fronts (a total of four) decorated with plant-themed carvings. The legs have a turning of the type known as “lentil”, with different types of discs depending on their width, creating a symmetrical composition, and located above and below a simple cylindrical heel. The chambranas have been carved with simplified vegetal shapes, and the fasteners have decoration of discs and balustraded shapes. The drawers are interspersed with protruding pieces in the shape of “that” and have oval handles, and the sides have simple geometric carvings. Compare, for example, with the walnut table with discs on the legs dated to the 17th century that is preserved in the collections of the old Municipal Museum of Madrid; with the office of the Inquisition of the National Museum of Decorative Arts in Madrid (in details such as the arrangement of the drawers); or with another dais table in walnut and pine wood with carved drawers and lenticular turned legs from the same museum, dated to the 17th century; a 17th century Castilian buffet table from the Cervantes Birthplace Museum (Alcalá de Henares, Madrid).

· Size: 83x118x73 cms.