A chest Renaissance cedar (or juniper) front and sides with grooved decoration filled with black mass (gall nut) "Imaginbary animals and plant motifs between classicist arches" Portuguese - Azores 16th/17th C. missing socle, small restoration, minor faults and defects, missing original lock replaced by two missing locks, missing pidgeonhole, missing original hinges replaced by later hinges Dimensões (altura x comprimento x largura) - 48 x 131 x 57,5 cm Notes: vd. "Do Mar e da Terra... Uma História no Atlântico". Angra do Heroísmo: Angra do Heroísmo Museum, 2011, p. 54; and "Mobiliário 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 a 35, reproducing several copies.