AN OAK CHEST

AN OAK CHEST

17TH CENTURY

the later hinged top with a moulded edge, revealing an interior with a lidded till and a secret compartment, with an elaborately carved front, decorated with scrolls, love hearts, rosettes, whorls, flowerheads and feather-like motifs, above a pierced apron carved with a pair of sea monsters, on sleigh feet

75.8cm high, 141.2cm wide, 56.7cm deep

Provenance

Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.