Object Description
A Rare ‘New Spain’ Spanish Colonial Mexico Table Cabinet Decorated with Geometric Star Inlays of Tortoiseshell Bone and Ebony with Strap Hinges and Central Lock Plate of Gilded Chased Brass
The two doors opening to reveal an interior similarly inlaid with seventeen drawers and one secret compartment the inside door panels later painted with scenes after Antoine Watteau (1684 – 1721)
The top and sides also inlaid the back decorated with rosewood trellis marquetry
Standing on four turned ebony feet
The cabinet late 17th Century
The door panels painted in Europe circa 1720
Size: 66cm high, 70cm wide, 53cm deep – 26 ins high, 27½ ins wide, 21 ins deep