Chest
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1600 - circa 1650
Materials
Cedar or cypress, iron
Measurements
57 x 164.5 x 58.5 cm
Place of origin
Azores
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Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 533051
Summary
A cedar or cypress chest, the Azores, circa 1600-50. Of dovetailed construction with hinged lid and iron lock plate. The front board is decorated with foliage and with beasts beneath arcades in individual panels. It has a later moulded base rail.
References
Coelho 2020: Maria Ines Simoes Coelho, Trading Chests: studies into the presence of Azorean chests in England, unpublished dissertation, December 2020, pp. 54 & 57, Figure 12