Details
An Indo-Portuguese leather and silk-emroidered rectangular trunk with foliate iron mounts, decorated with rectangular panels of European gentlemen and ladies dancing, playing musical instruments and raising their hats within borders of flowerheads and scrolling arabesques, the smaller side panels with mythical beasts and exotic birds -- 27.in X 18½.in (68.5 X 47cm), 17th/18th Century, (damages).
See Colour Plate 16 and detail.
Cf Page 32, Catalogue of Exhibition held at the Cooper Hewitt Museum, New york, 1986, Bon Voyage, Designs for Travel, for an illustration of a similar trunk, Collection of Louis Vuitton, Paris.
See Colour Plate 16 and detail.
Cf Page 32, Catalogue of Exhibition held at the Cooper Hewitt Museum, New york, 1986, Bon Voyage, Designs for Travel, for an illustration of a similar trunk, Collection of Louis Vuitton, Paris.