A FRENCH OAK COFFER
PROPERTY FROM THE MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS
A FRENCH OAK COFFER

CIRCA 1500, PROBABLY NORTHERN FRANCE

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A FRENCH OAK COFFER
CIRCA 1500, PROBABLY NORTHERN FRANCE
With hinged rectangular top above Gothic-tracery carved front and linen-fold sides, with two pencil inscriptions to reverse L20-3416, with indistinct inscription to back Ba...
32 in. (81 cm.) high, 74¾ in. (190 cm.) wide, 26¼ in. (67 cm.) deep
Provenance
Bequest of John Russel Van Derlip, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1935.

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Lot Essay

This impressive oak coffer, the front embellished with elaborate panels of Gothic tracery, represents the last flourishing of the high Gothic style in France from around 1500, before the nascent classical styles of the French Renaissance took hold from the 1530's onwards. Two closely related coffers in oak are in the Musée Cluny, Paris (one from the Sommerard collection, accession number c1.160, one the gift of Gerard in 1879, accession number c1. 9711). A further example was sold from the collection of Baron Cassel van Dorn, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 9-10 December 1955, lot 90, while others are illustrated in J. Boccador, Le Mobilier Français du Moyen Age à la Renaissance, Paris, 1988, p. 29 and p. 34.

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