SPANISH WALNUT TABLE 17TH CENTURY
Antiques - Furniture
Reference: Z3070
17th century lyre leg table. Walnut wood, with wrought iron fasteners and a single-piece board. Baroque style lyre-leg table, made entirely of walnut wood, with carved profile legs and a rectangular, smooth-profile top made from a single piece. The legs have a mixtilinear cut, based on recesses and projections of great dynamism and decorative sense, chiaroscuro even despite not being carved, which speak to us of the taste typical of Baroque Europe. Thus, we see complex lines that combine simple curves, edges and steps, creating lively shapes that are at the same time regular and symmetrical, in the style typical of Baroque classicism. The legs are joined to the top by means of curved iron fasteners, typical of this typology. Lyre-leg tables originated in the Spain of Charles II, during the second half of the 17th century. The simplest ones have a simple cut in the side legs, and are even completely carved in the models with peripheral centres. The fact that the top is left plain, without decoration, is due to the fact that the tables were covered with rich fabrics, which fell, practically hiding the entire table. Thus, in less wealthy houses, which could not afford to cover the tables in luxury, the decoration had to focus on the legs, and hence they were carved. Inspired by the tables of classical antiquity (made of marble and with cross supports), they have two side supports that can be dismantled to transport the piece of furniture, and which can have a lyre or vase profile.
· Size: 192x102x84 cms.
14.000 €
