A chest Renaissance cedar (or juniper) front with grooved decoration filled with black mass (gall nut) "Hounds, imaginary animals and plant motifs between classicist arches", top of the punctured boards, interior with a covered pidgeonhole Portuguese - Azores 16th/17th C. missing socle, restoration, minor faults and defects, missing original lock replaced by a later lock, missing original hinges replaced by later hinges, traces of woodworms Dimensões (altura x comprimento x largura) - 61 x 164 x 60 cm Notes: vd. similar copy in "Do Mar e da Terra... Uma História no Atlântico". Angra do Heroísmo: Angra do Heroísmo Museum, 2011, p. 54; e "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.