A SPANISH GILTMETAL-MOUNTED WALNUT AND GRAINED IVORY-MOUNTED EBONISED AND PARCIL-GILT VARGUENO-ON-CHEST The vargueno 19th Century, the base 17th Century The top with silk-backed pierced ormolu medallions, the fall-front enclosing to the reverse a red baize-lined writing-surface and a fitted interior with thirteen variously-sized architectural-fronted drawers with spirally-turned detached columns flanking a trellis-pattern field and with two doors and three concealed drawers, the lower section with two short drawers with a panelled field inlaid with shaped medallions with animals and flowers, above two conforming doors, all framed by a geometric pattern and on later block feet, losses to silk, the top of the lower section inscribed in ink 'Spanish Cabinet No 2 Lower portion (Sir John Crampton)' and the key to the lower section with cloth inscribed in ink 'the lower part of ... of the Spanish Cabinet no 2 sent to London 24 May 1881' 42½ in. (108 cm.) wide; 57½ in. (146 cm.) high; 16½ in. (42 cm.) deep
A SPANISH GILTMETAL-MOUNTED WALNUT AND GRAINED IVORY-MOUNTED EBONISED AND PARCIL-GILT VARGUENO-ON-CHEST The vargueno 19th Century, the base 17th Century The top with silk-backed pierced ormolu medallions, the fall-front enclosing to the reverse a red baize-lined writing-surface and a fitted interior with thirteen variously-sized architectural-fronted drawers with spirally-turned detached columns flanking a trellis-pattern field and with two doors and three concealed drawers, the lower section with two short drawers with a panelled field inlaid with shaped medallions with animals and flowers, above two conforming doors, all framed by a geometric pattern and on later block feet, losses to silk, the top of the lower section inscribed in ink 'Spanish Cabinet No 2 Lower portion (Sir John Crampton)' and the key to the lower section with cloth inscribed in ink 'the lower part of ... of the Spanish Cabinet no 2 sent to London 24 May 1881' 42½ in. (108 cm.) wide; 57½ in. (146 cm.) high; 16½ in. (42 cm.) deep
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