Bargueño in walnut wood with ivory applications.... Lot 724

Bargueño in walnut wood with ivory applications. Spain, S. XVII. Closed chest: 64 x 106 x 42,5 cm - open: 64 x 106 x 98 cm / Foot: 92 x 88 x 54 cm Prismatic box chest with rectangular plan and hinged front lid with interior structured in three registers. The upper register has four equal landscape drawers; the middle one has two landscape drawers in the center, arranged one above the other, on each side a vertical drawer and at each end a door with a lock; the lower register has in the center a large drawer with a double bottom and two drawers on each side, one above the other. The whole is ornamented with extraordinary ivory plaques applied and carved with reliefs of liturgical character, the great majority alluding to the life of Christ. _x000D_. It rests on the foot of a bridge of three arches with carved decoration and extensions topped with a venera. _x000D_ Iron fittings.