Chest
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1650
Materials
Cedar or cypress, iron
Place of origin
Azores
Order this imageCollection
Cotehele, Cornwall
NT 812792
Summary
A cedar or cypress chest, the Azores, circa 1650. Decorated with incised zoomorphic motifs and on four block, or extended stile, feet. Iron lockplate and ring hinges.
References
Coelho 2020: Maria Ines Simoes Coelho, Trading Chests: studies into the presence of Azorean chests in England, unpublished dissertation, December 2020, pp. 50 & 53, Figure 11