He says, therefore, that on the model of another head, the work of an image maker, which he had seen at Madrid, Don Antonio made this one at home for his own amusement and to astonish ignorant people; and its mechanism was as follows. The table was of wood painted and varnished to imitate jasper, and the pedestal on which it stood was of the same material, with four eagles' claws projecting from it to support the weight more steadily.
El cual quiso Cide Hamete Benengeli declarar luego, por no tener suspenso al mundo, creyendo que algún hechicero y extraordinario misterio en la tal cabeza se encerraba; y así, dice que don Antonio Moreno, a imitación de otra cabeza que vio en Madrid, fabricada por un estampero, hizo ésta en su casa, para entretenerse y suspender a los ignorantes; y la fábrica era de esta suerte: la tabla de la mesa era de palo, pintada y barnizada como jaspe, y el pie sobre que se sostenía era de lo mesmo, con cuatro garras de águila que dél salían, para mayor firmeza del peso.