WALNUT TABLE WITH WROUGHT IRON FASTENERS, SPAIN, 17TH CENTURY.
Antiques - Furniture
Reference: Z0749
Dining table in walnut wood and wrought iron fasteners. Spain, 17th century. With restorations. Rectangular table top on two lyre legs with edges animated by curves and counter-curves that have been secured to the table top by means of two S-shaped wrought iron fasteners, with balustraded areas towards the centre and decorated with discs where the last two meet. The upper 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 a reasonable level: this meant that it was always seen in the same place, but dressed in a quality fabric and with a series of important pieces on top of it, ceramics, silverware, glass..., which were especially appreciated by the owner. For this reason, it is the lower part that does show a little more work with the lyre legs with their animated profiles through curves and counter-curves and small semicircular mouldings, elements that, due to their movement, place the work within the Baroque. These sinuous shapes are also seen in the fasteners, tubular in the shape of a baluster towards the centre and highlighted by discs in two sizes. Walnut was the wood most often used in furniture of the period in Spain, and its shapes also reflect this origin. Although it was frequently found in houses of a certain level, not many examples have been preserved due to changes in taste and customs over the centuries. Notable examples include, for example, the one in the Sala de las Firmas (Signature Room) of the Viana Palace in Córdoba, the one in the dining room of the Casa Museo de Lope de Vega in Madrid, one in the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas (National Museum of Decorative Arts) in Madrid (inventory CE 27479), or another in the Patio Elcano of the building called the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Madrid (Plaza de Santa Cruz).
· Size: 229x89x81 cms.
2.500 €
