A SPANISH COLONIAL MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND TORTOISESHELL CABINET ('MEUBLE ENCONCHADO')**

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A SPANISH COLONIAL MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND TORTOISESHELL CABINET ('MEUBLE ENCONCHADO')**
LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY

With canted top above a ripple moulded frieze drawer painted with Biblical scenes and centrally inlaid with a tortoiseshell and mother-of-pearl panel, above a central cabinet door fitted with an ivory panel depicting St. Francis receiving the Stigmata and opening to reveal a recessed compartment backed with a portrait of a bearded man, the door flanked by six short drawers, the sides fitted with cupboard doors, inlaid throughout with tortoiseshell and mother-of-pearl, on ribbed ball feet, the associated ebonized base inlaid with a tortoiseshell and ivory frieze, with turned legs joined by stretchers (alterations)-60¾in. (54.5cm.) high, 63½in. (161cm.) wide, 18½in. (47cm.) deep overall

拍品专文

The meuble enconchado originated in the Spanish Philippines in the early 17th century. The prototype was made as a wedding gift for the grand-daughter of the Viceroy of Peru and is now in the Dallas Museum of Art (H. Hayward, World Furniture, New York, 1965, p. 106, fig. 371).

Related examples were sold in these Rooms, 11 January 1994, lot 151, and 27 September 1991, lot 172.