Description

Pampanga crafted mesa altar framed with kamagong beadings. The façade of the cabinet doors and drawers are fashioned with lanite marquetry with a detailed bone inlay rosettes at the center of the cabinet panel doors. Supported by kamagong balusters at the extreme sides of the drawers are small drawers meant for candle safekeeping.

This item is part of the DM Guevara Collection which pays tribute to the Filipino artisans of the past two centuries. Comprising of both fine furniture collections and folk implements, the collection highlights Western and Asian influences that are exquisite and functionally Filipino. The DM Guevara Collection was put together by the family matriarch Carmen S. Guevara for the Museo ng Buhay Pilipino in 1979.

Donation

DM Guevara Collection