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Furniture
18th century
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Furniture du 18th century
Enconchado cabinet in tortoiseshell, mother-of-pearl and bone, Mexico circa 1700
Exceptional Object
DIMENSIONS : l. 42.52 .inH. 25.2 .in
MATERIAUX : Tortoiseshell, bone, mother-of-pearl
PROVENANCE : Mexico
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?A rare and precious "enconchado" cabinet veneered with tortoiseshell, precious woods, bone, mother-of-pearl, and stained wood.
Rectangular in shape, it is framed by two columns and features ten drawers in four rows on the front, including a central niche in the form of a temple.
The front and sides are veneered with red-stained tortoiseshell and inlaid with scrolling foliage ending in mother-of-pearl petals; the sides and top display a geometric design.
Each drawer is adorned with a finely carved bone frame.
The central niche contains a small oil painting on copper depicting the "Virgin of Belén," attributed to the Mexican painter José de Páez (1720–1790).
Viceroyalty of New Spain, Mexico City, late 17th–early 18th century.
The cabinet rests on a four-legged base of turned, blackened wood connected by wrought iron stretchers.
In very good condition; minor restorations consistent with age and wear to the bone carving.
Dimensions:
Cabinet: Width: 108 cm; Height: 64 cm; Depth: 35 cm
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-A pair of identical cabinets is held in the Prado Heudebert Collection in Lima; they are featured in Maria Campos Carlès de Pena's book, "Un legado que pervive en Hispano America" (A Legacy That Lives in Spanish America).
-Another model was sold at Sotheby's New York auction on November 20, 2013, lot 141.
-Other similar examples are held at the Pedro de Osma Museum in Lima, Peru, and the Amparo Museum in Puebla, Mexico.
