Furniture S: XIX Catalan

Furniture made of american oak, hand-carved,and with all the anchor wood machimbrado of the NINETEENTH century, dated approximately between 1817 and 1830 that it was in the moments in which the piece of furniture stately carved initials or texts by master carpenters of the time, the piece that we are suffers enough damage to not be the hardware and the wood has not been treated adequately being dry and chipped, despite being a very important piece in the villas of noblemen of the time, today it is difficult to find the auctions craftsmen.

This type of furniture is known as the furniture of the refectory that it was used in this period as improvised altars in the villas, mansions or stately homes for the celebration of the eucharist since all of this type of villas they used to possess Shrines or areas allowed by the ecclesiastical authority of the moment to celebrate the eucharist. However it was not that committed but were normally found at the entrance of the houses where they used to deposit both hand-held objects, weapons or other paraphernalia that the lord of the house to carry.