16th century Spanish walnut armorial armchair
- Period
- 1580 -1600
- Origin
- Spain
- Dimensions
- W 25 3/4" × H 43 3/4" × D 20 3/4"
- Reference
- #Marh3132
This piece has been sold. It is shown here for reference in our archive.
Description
16th century Spanish walnut armorial armchair of fine and rare form, the back rest panel carved with a family armorial, with script carved around the crest.
The inscription reads:
El Agila En Canpo De Oro Con Los Trocos Que Aqui Vedes Son Las Arms de Caviedes Q Se Las Gano Al Rey Moro
Which translates as “The Eagle on Field of Gold with the Trunks which you see here are the Arms of Caviedes who won them from the Moorish King”
A shield with the same inscription, but without the spelling mistakes, appears on the facade of the Manor House of the Caviedes family in the town of Iscar, near Valladolid, in Spain, built in the C18th by Don Francisco Remigio de Caviedes y Vergara, Warden of the Fortress of Iscar.
The family is an ancient one, originally from Liebana in Cantabria, and the inscription supposedly refers to the granting of arms to the family during the Reconquista period when Lope Garcia de Salazar defeated a Moorish Emir who was wearing a garment covered in gold stars in single combat at Toledo.
