Drop-front desk on chest (Vargueño)
Unknown
17th century · Carved, gilded, and partly gilded painted bone; wrought iron · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
The intricate geometric patterning of this distinctively Spanish type of traveling desk shows the fondness for Islamic design that survived long after the Reconquest.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 17th century
- Medium
- Carved, gilded, and partly gilded painted bone; wrought iron
- Culture
- Spanish
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Gift of the Duchesse de Richelieu, 1960
