Small Gothic Chest Carved Oak French Provincial Antique Bible or Strong Box

French coffer or chest assembled circa 1960 with panels made circa 1850. All All the walls of the trunk as well as the top are in carved oak and the bottom of the trunk is made of ...

Coffer or chest French 18th century carved oak French Provincial Country House Very decorative and full of character Decorated with geometrical motifs This chest has the ideal si...

French old baby bassinet or cradle. Can be used in a baby or a child room for storing toys and comforters. Very decorative and full of character Good ...

French little dining table in massive oak. Mid-century, circa 1970. Dimension between the floor and the table : 24.41 in. (62 cm). Good conditio...

Neo renaissance vitrine antique French buffet 18th century Hand carved oak with a mythological scene. Hercules and the bull Glass door display cabine...

French wood box decorated with marquetry including a star on the top. Made circa 1920. Good condition with traces of water on the sides. Shipping: 21 ...

Stunning and practical size, multi purpose Gothic chest / box from a monastery. This here Gothic chest is one of the smallest yet most stylish we ever had the pleasure of offering. ...

Antique French Gothic Trunk ~ Blanket Chest continues the legacy of the original form of cased furniture, creating a special piece that works behind the sofa, at the foot of the bed,...

This standing chest is of clamp-front construction, extensively decorated with long, ironwork straps with quatrefoil finials which ‘wrap’ around it, and has an ornate, central lockplate, and front legs with full, height stiles. The ironwork straps and finials are fixed with convex, headed nails: running along the front, five long straps; the two side straps; and the five straps on the top. On the chest front, centrally placed, is a large, iron lockplate with four outer, radiating spade finals in each corner and three, superimposed spade finials (a symbol of nobility) which are pierced with the initials ‘BB’. The lockplate receives a corresponding, external hasp fitted to the lid. Below the floor of the chest, the two front stile legs retain most of their original height. The lid is supported by substantial iron strap hinges that extend right down the back of the chest. Inside the chest at the left end is a shallow, oak till. Construction The chest is of joined, 'clamp-front' construction, reinforced by the nailed, iron mounts. In total it uses ten, oak boards which were riven and planed. The back and front are each formed from a large single plank held to the full height stiles by long, pegged tenons. The sides are also single boards joined into the stiles using long tenons held by dowels, and extend down below the chest bottom, concealing the ends of the bottom boards. The bottom consists of a single board cut into the sides and shallow rebates in the stiles. The front and back boards are dowelled into the bottom boards. The lid which overhangs the sides has a narrow cleat at each end, and consists of one wide plank which has bowed a little as a result of shrinkage. Ironwork : The wrought ironwork straps, lockplate, hasp and lock all appear all appear to be early, and of the same original manufacture and are fixed with convex headed nails. There is mild dark staining of the oak around the iron mounts, possibly because of low tannin content in the oak. Length 172 cm., 67 ¾ in., Height 71.5 cm., 28 ¼ in., Depth 63 cm., 24 ¾ in., Related to: No 900:2-1904 V&A Museum, London. Stadtmuseum Dusseldorf. Decorative Arts Museum Berlin. Museen Schleswig-Holstein & Hamburg. A related example featuring elaborately-carved feet and formerly in the Horsham Museum, West Sussex, sold at Christie's in 2010 for £97,250 and another example, again with carved feet sold at Sothebys in 2006 for £48,000. Literature: A similar example is illustrated in H. Lüttgens, Alt- Aachener Wohnkultur; Ein Rundgang durch ein altes Aachener Haus im Wohnstil des 18. Jahrhunderts, Aachen, n.d., ill. 12, and another comparable iron-bound chests...

This Gothic walnut chest, with an exceptional patina, is a good example of furniture intended to be transported during the frequent journeys made by quality people in medieval times....

An impressive early 16th Century oak coffer, Normandy, circa 1500, having a deep plank hinged top, above a series of four Gothic tracery carved panels...

A very rare chest that was completely made of solid oak from the Netherlands middle ages. It is a joined chest with hand carved geometric gothic front panels. The ornaments used are typical Gothic ornaments such as trefoil, mouchette, and trace. This diminutive chest was probably made in the 15th century Netherlands. It has the typical construction of very early European furniture as is also seen on the German Stollentruhe. The chest has only a small lid with forged hinges...