| 单词 |
vargueño |
| 释义 |
vargueño|vɑːˈgeɪnjəʊ|
[ad. Sp. bargueño, vargueño adj., of Bargas, a village near Toledo, the former place of manufacture.]
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.
1911E. 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. Ibid. 160 It has been reasonably conjectured that the vargueño cabinet took its title from the small town of Vargas, near Toledo. 1923G. 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. 1960H. Hayward Antique Coll. 24/2 Bargueño or vargueño, Spanish cabinet with fall-front enclosing drawers and often mounted on a stand. 1975Oxf. 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. |
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