Description
Catalan chest of drawers from the 18th century. Walnut wood and boxwood marquetry. Measurements: 122 x 118 x 60 cm. Catalan chest of drawers in walnut wood. It is raised on four legs finished in volutes, with the front ones extending on pilasters with chamfered marquetry. The front of the chest of drawers has a mixtilinear waist and undulates slightly, giving it a subtle, restrained movement, typical of the rococo style. Three large drawers occupy the entire front of the chest of drawers and there are two smaller drawers in the upper part. Three recessed drawers complete the upper part of the chest of drawers. Despite the structural differences, they all have the same ornamentation based on the boxwood fillets creating vegetal medallions. The sides of the chest of drawers also feature marquetry decoration, albeit of greater simplicity. The structure still retains the sinuosity and the bulging of the rococo style, but we can already see clearly classical features in terms of design and decoration. The most important of these is the clear visual compartmentalisation of the furniture. Thus, while in the rococo chest of drawers it was normal to find a unified front, with the different drawers barely differentiated under the unitary decoration, here they are clearly differentiated.
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Catalan chest of drawers from the 18th century. Walnut wood and boxwood marquetry. Measurements: 122 x 118 x 60 cm. Catalan chest of drawers in walnut wood. It is raised on four legs finished in volutes, with the front ones extending on pilasters with chamfered marquetry. The front of the chest of drawers has a mixtilinear waist and undulates slightly, giving it a subtle, restrained movement, typical of the rococo style. Three large drawers occupy the entire front of the chest of drawers and there are two smaller drawers in the upper part. Three recessed drawers complete the upper part of the chest of drawers. Despite the structural differences, they all have the same ornamentation based on the boxwood fillets creating vegetal medallions. The sides of the chest of drawers also feature marquetry decoration, albeit of greater simplicity. The structure still retains the sinuosity and the bulging of the rococo style, but we can already see clearly classical features in terms of design and decoration. The most important of these is the clear visual compartmentalisation of the furniture. Thus, while in the rococo chest of drawers it was normal to find a unified front, with the different drawers barely differentiated under the unitary decoration, here they are clearly differentiated.