Spanish Baroque Credenza — Ebonized, Gilt & Antiqued Mirror, 19th–20th C. View Watchlist >
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Lot # F823
System ID # 29537260
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Spanish Baroque Three-Door Credenza — Ebonized, Gilt & Antiqued Mirror, 19th–20th C.
The decorator who put this in a room understood exactly what it does: seventy inches of black, gold, and antiqued mirror glass, the geometry so dense and so relentlessly symmetric that it stops you. Every door face — and both side panels — is composed of beveled mirror cartouches set into gilt-outlined stepped frames with red bole accent lines, the whole organized with the obsessive regularity you associate with 17th-century Spanish ecclesiastical furniture. The mirror panels are intentionally antiqued, their silvered surfaces deliberately marbled and clouded to evoke age — a decorative choice, not a condition flaw. The gilt cornice molding along the top edge and the matching base molding keep the visual weight from becoming oppressive. Small cast-brass drop-bail pulls at each door. The interior is practical: two fixed shelves per bay across all three compartments.
The aesthetic traces back to the vargueño-influenced decorative vocabulary of Baroque Spain — a tradition that traveled with colonization and took root so thoroughly in New Mexico and the broader Spanish Colonial that pieces like this feel native to the region rather than imported.Construction suggests a late 19th- to early 20th-century interpretation of the earlier Baroque prototype rather than a period example — the distinction matters historically but changes almost nothing visually.
CONDITION
Fair overall. The painted top surface shows scattered scratches, scuffing, and several areas of finish loss through to the substrate beneath; gilt molding is rubbed and faded throughout with localized losses. A vertical crack runs through the paint layer at the lower right corner of the base. Mirror panels are antiqued by design — the marbled, silvered surfaces are intentional. Original hardware and polychrome finish survive intact.
DIMENSIONS / SPECIFICATIONS
- Overall: 35 1/2" H × 70" W × 19 1/2" D
- Top Shelf Interior (per bay): 16" H × 67" W × 16 1/2" D
- Bottom Shelf Interior (per bay): 13 1/2" H × 67" W × 16 1/2" D
- Configuration: Three doors; two fixed shelves per bay
- Side Panels: Fully mirrored with matching antiqued treatment
- Construction: Solid wood, unmarked
- Hardware: Cast-brass drop-bail pulls
