Portable Writing Desk with Geometric Patterns and Moorish Designs

1550-1650 (Late Renaissance)

106 cm 63.2 cm

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Traditional Islamic decoration, with intricate patterns in inlaid pieces of wood, ivory, and bone (some dyed green), persisted in Spanish furniture long after the last Muslim stronghold of Granada was conquered in 1492. In the 1600s, an image of the Madonna of Mercy wearing th...

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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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