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Early Spanish coffers and vargueños were designed with security at heart; they were portable fortresses with multiple levels of protection and thus often contained little external decoration save for intricate iron locks whose value sometimes…

Each drawer is decorated with a panel of pyro-engraved bone framed in ebony; the narrative scenes depicted all derive from Samuel I with the exception of the central panel, which shows the story of Noah's sacrifice, and some purely decorative floral…

Luckily, a decent amount of investigation has actually been made into the form of this specific cabinet due to it’s being the subject of a 1979 student analysis; unluckily, the analysis demonstrates inconsistencies that threaten the object’s…

Looking at the object in the Mead’s collection, finding terminology to describe the form of the cabinet becomes increasingly complicated as more aspects of the item’s history are revealed. The term that can most safely be applied is escritorio…

Cabinets and writing desks appear, differentiated by the peculiarities in taste and materials prevalent in their places of origin, throughout the furniture of Renaissance and Baroque Europe, fulfilling a spectrum of purposes from practical to…