A grooved chest cedar (or juniper) grooved decoration filled with black mass (gall nut) "Imaginary animals and plant motifs", iron mounts and hinges Portuguese - Azores 16th/17th C. missing original socle, restoration, non-original base rim, minor faults and defects, interior showing signs of having had a pigeon hole Dimensões (altura x comprimento x largura) - 43 x 118 x 50 cm Notes: vd. "Do Mar e da Terra... Uma História no Atlântico". Angra do Heroísmo:  Angra do Heroísmo Museum, 2011, p. 54; and "PMobiliário 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 to 35, reproducing several copies.