PORTUGUESE GONCALO ALVEZ VARGUENO ON STAND

PORTUGUESE GONCALO ALVEZ VARGUENO ON STAND in 17th century style, the top with moulded front and side edges above an arrangement of five drawers, appearing as a symmetrical register of nine, all with recessed foliate-cut brass keyhole surrounds within ripple moulded outer edges, the sides with conforming ripple-moulded panels and brass swing handles, the stand with twist-carved borders to a wave-moulded frieze at front and sides, above openwork profusely carved scrolling foliage rising from an urn at the front and with smaller conforming panels at the sides, on four solomonic legs with twist-carved peripheral stretchers to blocks, on turned feet, 123cm high overall x 76cm wide x 40cm deep