Coffer
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1600 - circa 1625
Materials
Cypress, or juniper, iron
Measurements
50 x 138 x 52 cm
Place of origin
Portugal
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Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 207062
Summary
A cypress or juniper chest or cassone, Portugal or The Azores, very late 16th/first quarter of the 17th century. Decorated with pen and poker-work. The front with large iron lockplate and decorated with incised vacant cartouches within foliate and floral borders. The ends each with an iron handle.
Provenance
Date of acquisition not recorded, but probably acquired by George Bambridge (1892 - 1943) and Elsie Bambridge (1896 - 1976), who purchased a largely empty Wimpole in 1938. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1976 by Elsie Bambridge.