A grooved decoration ark Renaissance juniper (cedar) front and sides with grooved decoration filled with black mass (gall nut) "Imaginary animals and plant motifs between classicist arches", punctured tops of the boards, interior with a pidgeonhole Portuguese - Azores 16th/17th C. missing socle, restoration, minor defects, missing pidgeonhole cover, non-original mounts Dimensões (altura x comprimento x largura) - 56,5 x 164 x 57 cm Notes: this type of chest was studied in FERRÃO, Bernardo - "Mobiliário Português - dos primórdios ao maneirismo - volume quarto - Anexos". Porto: Lello & Irmão - Editores, 1990, pp. 7-35, reproducing several copies. For a grooved decoration ark with similar imaginary animals see FREIRE, Fernanda Castro - "Mobiliário - volume II". Lisboa: Ricardo do Espírito Santo Silva Foundation, 2001, p. 43.