19TH CENTURY, INCORPORATING EARLIER ELEMENTS

Details

A SPANISH WALNUT CHEST
19TH CENTURY, INCORPORATING EARLIER ELEMENTS
With a hinged lid above a frieze with foliate corbels and carved to the inside with foliate arches and rosette blocks, the pannelled front and sides carved conformingly, one panel concealing a cupboard with three internal drawers and with two further frieze drawers below, on a moulded plinth and paw feet
27 3/4 in. (70 cm.) high; 54 1/4 in. (138 cm.) wide; 21 1/4 in. (54 cm.) deep

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 13 December, 1996, lot 44.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, South Kensington, 12 September 2006, lot 137.

Special notice

Following the auction, this lot will be stored at Crozier Park Royal and will be available for collection from 12.00pm on the second business day after the sale. Please call Christie’s Client Service 24 hours in advance to book a collection time at Crozier Park Royal. All collections from Crozier Park Royal will be by pre-booked appointment only. Tel: +44 (0)20 7839 9060 I Email: cscollectionsuk@christies.com.

Conditions of sale

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Adrian Hume-Sayer Director, Specialist

Lot Essay

Chests of this type were known as Arca de Nova or dowry chests. An identical example in the Museo des Artes Decorativas, Madrid, is illustrated by Helena Hayward, World Furniture, London, 1969, 3rd edition, p. 61, and by Maris Paz Aguilo Alfonso, El Meuble en Espana Siglos XVI-XVII, Madrid, 1993, p. 202, plate 58.
An almost identical example was sold Christie's, London, 17 September, 2003, lot 316.

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