Exceptional Neapolitan cabinet from the early 18th century.

Exceptional Neapolitan cabinet from the early 18th century.
In ebony and patinated wood.
Oil paintings on glass in the style of Luca Giordano.
It presents restorations for its optimal maintenance, accidents in three of the supports.
Measurements: 194 x 185 x 52 cm.

Exceptional Italian Baroque bargueño, specifically made in Naples and dated in the early eighteenth century. It is a bargueño of uncovered sample, raised on a bargueñera table with four Solomonic legs with interlaced floral garlands that rest on flattened ball feet. The table is simple, with an entablature-like waist with a cornice that serves as a pedestal for the bargueño. This also has a structure in ebonized wood, with a simple architectural design, which avoids detracting from the paintings, oil on glass and characterized by their high pictorial quality. Thus, the front display is divided into ten drawers that frame a central tabernacle door flanked by two Solomonic columns with bronze rings. This central door reveals inside a theater with five Solomonic columns on a mirrored background with a drawer at the base and a secret at the bottom. The uprights, the pediment, the door and the drawers are decorated with thirty-six casements fixed under glass with mythological themes inspired by Luca Giordano (1634-1705) depicting various scenes (nymphs and satyrs among other motifs). The panels separating each of the scenes have a tortoiseshell background.

The structure shows the classic baroque criterion according to which the decoration, however abundant it may be, must always be subordinated to the structure, so that the order, proportion and balance of the structure itself, as well as of its different parts, can be appreciated. We can find other examples of Neapolitan furniture decorated with paintings on glass in Spanish collections such as the church of the Convent of the Carmelites in Alba de Tormes.