19th Century Baroque Style Cabinet on Stand / Bargueno / Vargueno

Distinctive walnut varqueño cabinet or chest on stand made in the Spanish baroque taste by Flint and Horner Co. New York, New York. When R.J. Horner retired his company merged with G...

This Bargueno is embellished with a carving of Don Quixote de la Mancha bordered with branches of leaves. The desk is supported by a pedestal joined by a bridge of turned columns. Th...

This Bargueno is embellished with a carving of Don Quixote de la Mancha bordered with branches of leaves. The desk is supported by a pedestal joined by a bridge of turned columns. Th...

This Bargueno is embellished with a carving of Don Quixote de la Mancha bordered with branches of leaves. The desk is supported by a pedestal joined by a bridge of turned columns. The front legs contain a carving of two wind god...

This Bargueno is embellished with a carving of Don Quixote de la Mancha bordered with branches of leaves. The desk is supported by a pedestal joined by a bridge of turned columns. Th...

This Bargueno is a portable desk. The base is typically a Spanish table and dates from 19th Century. The upper part was added in the 20th century in England and dates from the Arts a...

Rustic large Spanish baroque bargueno style cabinet or chest on stand crafted from thick pine. The beautiful case has exposed dove tail joinery and features 6 large storage drawers and is centered by an arched storage door with an ornate carved surround and an old master style religious painting on the door of Christ. The drawers have decorative cartouche designs on the front with an iron pull in the center and finished in gilt. The cantilever style stand has two square leg supports decorated with acanthus vines and gilt finishes flanking four turned supports attached to stretchers. Decorated in the style of a Bargueno or Vargueno desk...

This elegant antique Bargueño or Vargueño desk was crafted in Spain circa 1820. The two-piece cabinet-on-stand features a rectangular chest resting on turned legs connected by a deco...

This elegant antique Bargueño or Vargueño desk was crafted in Spain circa 1820. The two-piece cabinet-on-stand features a rectangular chest resting on turned legs connected by a deco...

Italian cabinet on table. Walnut and rosewood, hawksbill, bronze in color and gilded, 20th century. Sample desktop pool located on ball and claw with handles on the sides. The buffet or table that holds barguen~era is carved legs insured by lower chambrana (also machined with a given center) together and to the cover by curved metal fasteners capped scroll. Barguen~o paws have claw-shaped carved synthesized bird on ball, something very typical of the seventeenth century. The cover has this elegant geometric decoration, and so do the five drawers discover: the decoration of the side to diamonds made in marquetry by dark wood inlaid fillets of light, an element that is repeated in the interior of the chapel is reduced. As usual in the baroque barguen~o, the center of the sample is where the decoration is conducted, in general, based on areas tortoiseshell framed or highlighted with dark wood moldings and surrounded by sinuous curved lines made in marquetry, always maintaining symmetry. T The general outline of the furniture is very common in all the European Baroque and the compositional clarity not break until the arrival of the Rococo. All decorative elements, based on the classical tradition, are characteristic of this type of furniture: desks with outdoor displays of this scheme are known and performed throughout Europe, with a Flemish influence in its creation, the Italians being the most valued for their decoration. The practice of employing tortoiseshell plates...