Live Auction 21919An Opulent Aesthetic: An Important Private Collection from an English Country House
A SPANISH WALNUT CHEST
Lot 223

A SPANISH WALNUT CHEST

19TH CENTURY, INCORPORATING EARLIER ELEMENTS

Closed9 February 2023

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A SPANISH WALNUT CHEST
19TH CENTURY, INCORPORATING EARLIER ELEMENTS
With a hinged lid above a frieze with foliate corbels and carved to the inside with foliate arches and rosette blocks, the pannelled front and sides carved conformingly, one panel concealing a cupboard with three internal drawers and with two further frieze drawers below, on a moulded plinth and paw feet
27 3/4 in. (70 cm.) high; 54 1/4 in. (138 cm.) wide; 21 1/4 in. (54 cm.) deep

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 13 December, 1996, lot 44.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, South Kensington, 12 September 2006, lot 137.

Specialist note


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.