LOT 23:
A small chest
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Start price:
€
1,400
Estimated price :
€1,400 - €2,100
Buyer's Premium: 24.6%
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A small chest
Renaissance
juniper (or cedar)
front with grooved decoration filled with black mass (gall nut) "Pomegranates and plant windings", scalloped socle and also with grooved decoration, interior with punctured top boards, interior with a covered pidgeonhole
Portuguese - Azores
16th/17th C.
restoration on the front, minor faults and defects, missing mounts, missing original hinges replaced by side hinges
Notes: This type of chest was studied in FERRÃO, Bernardo - "Mobiliário Português - dos primórdios ao maneirismo - volume quarto - Anexos". Porto: Lello & Irmão - Editores, 1990, pp. 7-35, reproducing several copies.

