PAINTED WOOD LECTERN
Antiques - Miscellaneous / Other Objects
Reference: Z3862
Lectern. Mexico, circa 1700 Carved and gilded wood. Mexican Baroque lectern made entirely of carved and gilded wood. It has a prismatic shape, with a sloping front to facilitate the support of the book. Halfway up the front there is a flat corbel with a moulded perimeter, like a cornice, on which there is an oval recess that forms the centre of the body of a two-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 that form the tail on the sides, with the two heads in profile forming a rigorously symmetrical composition, typical of classicist Baroque. Between the two heads there is a crenellated crown, held in its centre by a flowering stem. On the sides, openwork like the front, we see the only element that indicates that we are looking at a piece from the 18th century, although still fully Baroque. This is the rocaille created in the Rococo period, in the first half of the 18th century, an ornamental element that will be widely used from then on and which consists of an abstract crest that evokes the exterior of a shell in its texture and lines.
· Size: 30x18,5x39 cms.
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