19TH CENTURY, INCORPORATING EARLIER ELEMENTS

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A SPANISH WALNUT CHEST
19TH CENTURY, INCORPORATING EARLIER ELEMENTS
With a hinged lid above a frieze with foliate corbels, the panelled front and sides with foliate carved arches and rosette blocks, one panel concealing a cupboard with three internal drawers and with two further frieze drawers below, on a moulded plinth and paw feet
27½in. (69cm.) high, 57½in. (146cm.) wide, 24in. (60cm.) deep

Provenance

Sotheby's, London, 13 December, 1996, lot 44.

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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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