Live Auction 5987Christie's Interiors - Masters and Makers
A LARGE FRENCH GOTHIC OAK CHEST
Lot 172

A LARGE FRENCH GOTHIC OAK CHEST

CIRCA 1500 AND LATER PARTS, NORMANDY OR PICARDY

Closed21 September 2010

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GBP 22,500

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A LARGE FRENCH GOTHIC OAK CHEST
CIRCA 1500 AND LATER PARTS, NORMANDY OR PICARDY
With tracery panels flanking a central panel with fleur-de-lys cartouche, all between projecting carved crocket-type uprights, above horizontal tracery panels and with triple linenfold side panels, some embellishments
43½ in. (110 cm.) high; 64½ in. (164 cm.) wide; 27 in. (69 cm.) deep

Specialist note

Charles Tracy Continental church furniture in England, Woodbridge, 2001, pg 146, plate 122 illustrates a related chest located in The Church of The Holy Cross, Crediton, Devon. Also J. Boccador Le Mobilier Francais du Moyen Age a la Renaissance, Chateau de Saint-Remy-en-l'eau, 1988, pg 28 for another similar.