Rosewood Cabinets

Italian cabinet 19th Century in Rosewood With inlays in wood and noble material. With eight drawers, with golden metal handles on the side, in good condition. 32cm * 52.5cm *...

Portuguese Cabinet 17th Century In rosewood and other woods, decoration with inlays and bone fillets, with seven drawers with cut and perforated yellow metal hardware. Small defects...

A striking Spanish 18th century Baroque ebonized fruitwood, rosewood, burl walnut, and bone specimen cabinet. The cabinet is raised by elegant bun...

Incredible 18th century walnut Spanish vargueno inlaid with ebony and rosewood decorative panels. The fall front desk consists of wrought iron hinges ...

Stunning Baroque period Spanish or Italian Vargueno, unusual mirrored and hand painted drawers, featuring hidden drawers behind main large drawer, retains all original surface. Paint...

Italian cabinet in tortoise shell, wood and gilded bronze, wood of rosewood, lemongrass and iron fasteners. 17th century. Table with walnut board. Uncovered sample desk located on eight claws with ball and two handles on the sides. The front presents the central part advanced, with chapel; Four rectangular drawers to the sides of the same; the piece is topped by a corridor adorned with vegetal scrolls topped by eight infantile figures and an eagle crowned on orb above the central crown. The table that supports it and stands out is turned legs secured by lower chambranas (also turned and with central dice) to each other, and fixed to the top of the furniture thanks to curved metallic fasteners with disc in the center; The tabletop shows a geometric decoration in inlay of dark woods on whites. The general scheme of the furniture responds to models known and used in cabinetmaking throughout Europe throughout the seventeenth century of which the best examples are considered of Italian origin, such as the present. Thus, its decorative elements belong to the same tradition: the legs carved in the form of claw of bird synthesized on ball are very typical of the century; the sides are flatter and simpler (geometric marquetry around molding and handles in gilded bronze concentrate all decoration, vegetable); etc. As is usual in Baroque cabinets, the center of the front area is where the decoration is concentrated, made of golden-haired hawksbill areas and highlighted by external moldings in darker wood, ornamented by inlaid circles, always maintaining the symmetry. The chapel follows an architectural composition: lower basement highlighted, like the rest, with appliques of gilded bronze; Facade between four columns with an emphasis and a niche in the center with Athena, goddess of wisdom in classical mythology; The upper shot invades this last central space, providing movement. When opening the door that closes it, six small drawers are discovered to the sides and two majors up and down, flanking all of them an inner space of columns, semi-circular arches and a checkered floor that simulates much greater to the spectator by means of a theatrical trick with mirrors. This general scheme is very common throughout the European Baroque, and would not break its compositional clarity until Rococo in the 17th century. In Spain, the typology of the present desk coexisted with the one of the "bargueño", being preferred these types by its greater decorative wealth and in the materials used. The Classic elements of which it gala would respond to that Classic tradition, stronger in the Italian territory than in the Hispanic...