Mexican Baroque Vargueno on Mahogany Stand

Tiny cabinet of drawers in mottled red-brown panels, perched on its own table.

This baroque vargueno on a mahogany stand is from Mexico. It is wood. The baroque style is known for rich ornament, strong curves and dramatic contrast, and it shaped furniture in Spain and Latin America during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Small chest with a grid of drawer fronts inset with mottled red-brown panels, a central arched door, and thin pale inlaid lines on the sides. It sits on a dark table with a front drawer, tapered legs and an open stretcher frame. It is 37.5 inches long, 23.5 deep and 51.5 high.

A cabinet that keeps its secrets in lots of tiny rooms.