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A chest - Renaissance cedar (or juniper) front with grooved decoration filled with black mass (gall nut) ”Hounds, imaginary animals and plant motifs between classicist arches”, top of the punctured boards, interior with a covered pidgeonhole Portuguese - Azores 16th/17th C. missing socle, restoration, minor faults and defects, missing original lock replaced by a later lock, missing original hinges replaced by later hinges, traces of woodworms Dimensões (altura x comprimento x largura) - 61 x 164 x 60 cm Notes: vd. similar copy in ”Do Mar e da Terra... Uma História no Atlântico”. Angra do Heroísmo: Angra do Heroísmo Museum, 2011, p. 54; e ”Mobiliário Português - Roteiro - Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga”. Lisbon: Portuguese Institute of Museums, 2000, p. 44. This type of chest was studied in FERRÃO, Bernardo - ”Mobiliário Português - dos primórdios ao maneirismo - volume quarto - Anexos”. Porto: Lello & Irmão - Editores, 1990, pp. 7 a 35, reproducing several copies.