Spanish Colonial Pine Side Table with Dovetailed Drawer, 18th/19th C. View Watchlist >
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Lot # F792
System ID # 29481312
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Spanish Colonial Pine Side Table with Dovetailed Drawer, 18th/19th C.
Hand-built in the Spanish Colonial vernacular and most likely of Mexican origin, this compact side table is constructed entirely of solid pine with a two-board top, deep apron-mounted drawer, and splayed legs joined by box stretchers with through-tenons and exposed wooden pegs. The drawer is fitted with an iron lock plate and a cast pendant pull — the locking drawer was the household safe of provincial New Spain, reserved for documents, coin, or tools. Generations of daily contact have built a deep, unrestored patina across every surface.
The primitive construction — irregular plank top, pegged trestle base, hand-cut dovetails — places it firmly in the vernacular tradition that carried Iberian forms into the New World and built them from whatever timber was at hand.
CONDITION
Good and sturdy. Age-appropriate wear throughout, with previous repairs along the apron and drawer underside. Burn marks to the top surface and a heavily worn, darkened apron corner are damage rather than designed distressing. Drawer hardware — iron lock plate and cast pendant pull — is intact.
DIMENSIONS / SPECIFICATIONS
- Overall: 22" H × 31" W × 22" D
- Drawer Interior: 16" W × 15" D (depth not recorded)
- Material: Solid pine, unmarked
- Hardware: Iron lock plate, cast pendant drawer pull
- Construction: Dovetailed drawer, through-tenon and peg joinery, box stretchers
