Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum

Furniture

BOXES, CHESTS, AND

COFFERS

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ι. Chest

Late fifteenth century

Carved walnut

Height: 3 ft. i^3 /s in. (94.9 cm); Width:

6 ft. 10% in. (208.9 cm); Depth: 2 ft. 3 in.

(68.6 cm)

Accession number 78.DA.

PROVENANCE

[Ugo Bardini, i960]; purchased by J. Paul

Getty for Sutton Place, Surrey; distributed

by the estate of J. Paul Getty to the J. Paul

Getty Museum.

EXHIBITIONS

Woodside, California, Filoli, on loan,

1983-1991.

2. Coffer
   Second half of the sixteenth century
   Oak and iron
   Height: 3 ft. i^34 in. (95.5 cm); Width:
   5 ft. io^34 in. (179.7 cm); Depth: 2 ft. 5^5 /s in.
   (75.2 cm)
   Accession number 78.DA. 124
   PROVENANCE
   O. V. Watney, Cornbury Park, Charlbury,
   Oxfordshire, England (sold, Christie's,
   Cornbury Park, May 22,1967, lot 93); pur­
   chased by J. Paul Getty for Sutton Place,
   Surrey; distributed by the estate of J. Paul
   Getty to the J. Paul Getty Museum.
   EXHIBITIONS
   Woodside, California, Filoli, on loan,
   1983-1992.

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3. Box
   Paris, circa 1675-
   Attributed to Andre-Charles Boulle
   Oak veneered with ebony, boxwood, natural
   and stained sycamore, mahogany, padouk,
   walnut, amaranth, cedar, pear, satinwood,
   brass, horn, and pewter stringing
   Height: 1 ft. 4/2 in. (31.9 cm); Width:
   2 ft. 2 in. (66.1 cm); Depth: 1 ft. 5 in.
   (43.2 cm)
   Accession number 84 .DA.
   PROVENANCE
   [B. Fabre et Fils, Paris, 1984].
   BIBLIOGRAPHY
   'A.cquisitions/1984," GettyMusJ 13 (1985),
   no. 46, p. 175, illus.

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