Bidspirit auction | A grooved decoration ark

A grooved decoration ark - Renaissance juniper (cedar) front and sides with grooved decoration filled with black mass (gall nut) ”Imaginary animals and plant motifs between classicist arches”, punctured tops of the boards, interior with a pidgeonhole Portuguese - Azores 16th/17th C. missing socle, restoration, minor defects, missing pidgeonhole cover, non-original mounts Dimensões (altura x comprimento x largura) - 56,5 x 164 x 57 cm Notes: this type of chest was studied in FERRÃO, Bernardo - ”Mobiliário Português - dos primórdios ao maneirismo - volume quarto - Anexos”. Porto: Lello & Irmão - Editores, 1990, pp. 7-35, reproducing several copies. For a grooved decoration ark with similar imaginary animals see FREIRE, Fernanda Castro - ”Mobiliário - volume II”. Lisboa: Ricardo do Espírito Santo Silva Foundation, 2001, p. 43.