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Style: Jacobean
17th Century Nuremberg, German Iron Strongbox Jewels Casket
Located in Soquel, CA
Ornately painted cash box with iron hardware and key, on the original stand. Interior of box measures 8"W x 4"H x 3.75"D
Exceptional, small, late-renaissance, table-top, Nuremberg, iron, 'Wedding Box', strongbox or travelling safe with its original, naïve, painted decoration
This is a rare and small example of these characterful, early models of transportable safes. The much larger traditional chest...
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17th Century German Antique Jacobean Boxes
Materials
Wrought Iron, Iron
17th Century, Charles I, Inlaid & Carved Oak Desk Box, Circa 1640
Located in Leominster, GB
The top board bearing marquetry-inlaid initials ‘MA’, the slope with further marquetry-inlaid flowers and meandering foliage, enclosing an interior with a shelf, the end boards boldl...
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17th Century English Antique Jacobean Boxes
Materials
Oak
17th Century Charles I Carved Oak Box with Original Iron Clasp and Staple Lock
Located in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
An attractive early 17th-century carved oak box of boarded construction from the reign of Charles I, circa 1640. England
The box is deeply carved and punch decorated to the frieze i...
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Early 17th Century English Antique Jacobean Boxes
Materials
Iron
17th Century English Jacobean Carved Oak Bible Box.
Located in Vero Beach, FL
17th Century English Jacobean Carved Oak Bible Box.
Period Jacobean solid dark oak bible box from the 17th century. The front is beautifully carved wi...
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17th Century English Antique Jacobean Boxes
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Wrought Iron
Jacobean Oak Coffer
Located in Essex, MA
Nice small proportions with paneled hinged lid over a conforming case with three panels with carved detail, square section legs.
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1680s English Antique Jacobean Boxes
Materials
Oak
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Danish 18th Century Baroque Strongbox Safe Chest
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Charming and decorative Danish baroque oak chest, featuring original gray-metalized iron bands, fittings, lock, and key.
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Antique German Casket Trinket Box Ormolu Glass Satin Nuremberg Souvenir, 1890s
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A gorgeous glass trinket box with some ormolu adornments. The hinged top featuring a City view of the Nuremberg Castle. No restoration has been carried out on this charming little tr...
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Small 17th Century, French Coffer or Box in Leather
Located in Buisson, FR
Extremely old box that is covered with leather and metal decorations.
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France, circa 1600-1700
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Late 19th Century English Game Box
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
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Located in Kramfors, SE
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17th Century Charles II Carved Oak Writing Box or Desk Box circa 1670 England
Located in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
A Rare 17th-Century Charles II Carved Oak Writing or Desk Box, Circa 1660. England.
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H 11.03 in W 28.35 in D 18.51 in
Boiled Leather Trunk, Spanish, 17th Century
Located in Bruxelles, BE
Leather trunk
Spanish, 17th century
Boiled Leather, wood and iron
Measures: 22 x 53 x 32 cm.
Provenance :
- collection Metz-Noblat, Château de Clevant, France
Rectangular trunk of the form and size of a small suitcase with wrought iron hinges and lock-plate.
Wood, covered with leather, cut and embossed with every surface of the thick cow hide covered in interlace, zoomorphic features.
The construction method is boiled leather, often referred to by its French translation cuir-bouilli: a process used to change flexible, vegetable-tanned leather into rigid, moulded objects. For shaping of the vegetable-tanned leather, heat and moisture were used, as indicated by the term boiled leather. No written medieval sources describing the production of decorated cuir bouilli objects survive, so knowledge of the process relies on the important studies of the Scottish leather historian John William Waterer. A large range of methods, materials and techniques could be used in various combinations. The vegetable-tanned leather, made supple with moisture and heat, was stuffed, shaped and nailed to the rigid wooden coffer support. The stuffing material was probably modeled beeswax or stearin wax. To shape the leather, to create its topography, « Cushions » were made by lacing a thread through an awl hole and attaching the flexible leather and stuffing to the rigid wooden support on the bottom. Then the decoration was done: lines were incised through the upper layer of the leather (epidermis) with different thicknesses of knives or needles. Contours were created with deep v-shaped cuts, decoration with thin incision and final details with a needle point. For the incision and pouncing stage, the leather was probably kept heated and moistened for suppleness.
Once dry, the leather would be hard and rigid.
the saturated leather is worked over a form, possibly even damp sand, with the pattern shaped using bone or wooden tools. Compare to metal, leather was lighter and it offered protection from cuts and punctures. Cuir bouilli objects were produced by specialist leather workers and needed skillful craftsmanship.
The surface is filled with roundels shaped foliages enclosing animals, lions and peacocks. The foliate arabesques creating a vegetal connection tweet the animals create the impression of a lush verdant space . The vegetal pattern here employed in combination with geometrical pattern came from the pre-islamic artistic traditions of the Byzantine and Sasanian empires. An aspect of Islamic geometry Is the basic symmetrical repetition and mirroring of the shapes that create a sense of harmony.
The decoration of this truck is inspired by the islamic « arabesque » a form of vegetal ornament composed of spirals, intertwining plants and abstract curvilinear motifs. An arabesque character is given to the birds of the decorations through extreme stylisation. This arabesque maintained the classical tradition of median symmetry, freedom in Detail and heterogeneity of ornament.
The presence of the peacocks is a paradisiacal allusion: in popular Islamic literature they were among the original inhabitants of the garden of Paradise expelled with Adam and Eve. Peacock as a decorative motif may have originated in the West, despite their eastern provenance. There was an ancient belief that the flesh and feathers of peacock do not decay. This led to the peacock becoming a christian symbol for Christ’s resurrection.
Renowned for their decorative wall hangings, seventeenth-century Spanish leatherworkers also produced utilitarian objects, such as this trunk. A similar trunk is on display at the Metropolitan museum of art ( 09.158.1).
Related literature :
Davies L. 2006. Cuir bouilli. Conservation of leather and related materials, 94-102, Oxford: elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann
Grabar, Oleg. The Mediation of Ornament. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992
Gabriela Germana Roquez, "El mueble en el Peru en el siglo XVIII...
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17th Century Italian Leather Box
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Located in Essex, MA
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17th Century Welsh Oak Document Box
Located in Greenwich, CT
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English Jacobean Coffer
Located in Calgary, Alberta
Rare English Jacobean oak 3 panel coffer inlaid with holly and bog wood, the stiles carved with scroll motifs and finished with mat punching,
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18th Century and Earlier British Antique Jacobean Boxes
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17th Century English Oak Document Box or Table Coffer
Located in Essex, MA
An early English carved oak document or bible box, of rectangular form, the front and sides carved with semicircular stylized rosettes, the interior of th...
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Carved Oak Bible Box on a Later Stand
Located in San Francisco, CA
An early 18th century carved oak bible box of typical form now mounted on a later Jacobean style stand with one drawer.
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