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Bargueno (vargueno)
The Vargueño (also Bargueño) is a desk produced in the 15th century that is still produced today.
The vargueño was sometimes used for sewing or as a jewel chest instead of solely for reading and writing and storing the necessary implements for these activities.
The vargueño is a portable desk which resembles the top half of a fall front desk. It is basically a chest with its lid on the side, and an interior equipped with a good quantity of small drawers and pigeon holes.
As a general rule the interior of a vargueño is much more richly decorated than the exterior. Thus a vargueño looking very plain from the exterior will have a reasonably rich and well sculpted interior while a vargueño with impressive exterior decorations will have a truly ornate and extremely rich interior with ivory inlays and velvet decoration. It is one of the best examples of wood craftsmanship in Renaissance Spain
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