单词 | vargueño |
释义 | vargueñon. A kind of cabinet made in Spain in the 16th and 17th centuries, with numerous small compartments and drawers behind a fall front which opens out to form a writing surface. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > cupboard or cabinet > [noun] > other cupboards or cabinets Flanders chest1400 warestall1508 livery cupboard1571 boy1656 by-closet1696 corner-cupboard1711 India cabinet1721 pot-cupboard1789 housemaid's cupboard1843 monocleid1885 vargueño1911 console1925 cocktail cabinet1928 storage unit1951 1911 E. Foley Bk. Decorative Furnit. I. 159 Prominent amid the Hispano-Moresque decorative woodwork probably made by these Moorish craftsmen is the vargueño: a box with a door in front, evolved from the chest or hucha, and mounted on a stand. 1911 E. Foley Bk. Decorative Furnit. I. 160 It has been reasonably conjectured that the vargueño cabinet took its title from the small town of Vargas, near Toledo. 1923 G. L. Hunter Decorative Furnit. ix. 265 The most distinctive piece of Spanish furniture is the vargueño. Like the two-story cabinets or highboys of other countries, it was a development from the chest. 1960 H. Hayward Connoisseur's Handbk. Antique Collecting 24/2 Bargueño or vargueño, Spanish cabinet with fall-front enclosing drawers and often mounted on a stand. 1975 Oxf. Compan. Decorative Arts 809/2 The most typical vargueños are in the Mudejar style... In 1568 the guilds of Mexico required a cabinet-maker to be able to make a vargueño..as a condition of qualification. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1911 |
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