This round cover table is a very problematic example as it has been erroneously supposed that it is a New Spain piece of furniture from the eighteenth century. The cover and the crossbeams that fix it to the base are completely modern. The lower part, which includes exuberant decoration based on the guidelines of the horror vacui (horror of emptiness), shows a deep flesh carving with two types of anthropophytes (human vegetables) that spew dead leaves; the largest derivatives of the grotesque knowledge of books of the 16th and 17th centuries (although they are only imitations).
There is also a decoration of vegetal motifs, and it has clawed balled legs. At the center of the lower part there is an element that s the crossbeams with a crowning in the form of a pineapple and a pendant that have nothing to do with the ornamental Vice-royal repertoire, but rather they are formal solutions present in Victorian cabinetmaking. The table is a neo-colonial product. It is, then, a reinterpretation very pertinent to the first half of the 20th century, guided by the Hispanic zeal in the face of Mexican nationalism.
This round cover table is a very problematic example as it has been erroneously supposed that it is a New Spain piece of furniture from the eighteenth century. The cover and the crossbeams that fix it to the base are completely modern. The lower part, which includes exuberant decoration based on the guidelines of the horror vacui (horror of emptiness), shows a deep flesh carving with two types of anthropophytes (human vegetables) that spew dead leaves; the largest derivatives of the grotesque knowledge of books of the 16th and 17th centuries (although they are only imitations).
