A grooved decoration large chest juniper (or cedar) decoration with grooves filled with putty (gall nut) "Imaginary animals, heads of Imaginary animals and plant motifs", with inscription WD, interior with pigeon holes, scalloped and engraved iron hinges, locks, escutcheon and door strike plate en relief Portuguese - Azores 16th/17th C. missing socle, small restoration, minor faults and defects Dimensões (altura x comprimento x largura) - 55,5 x 138,5 x 56,5 cm Notes: this type of chests 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 grooved decoration chest with similar imaginary animals vd. FREIRE, Fernanda Castro - "Mobiliário - volume II". Lisbon: Ricardo do Espírito Santo Silva Foundation, 2001, p. 43.