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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;808 raver, post: 9884419, member: 4654&quot;]Nice piece. My thoughts to the carving is food in the first 3rd, religious stuff in the second 3rd and wine in the last 3rd. Furniture when this was made wasn&#039;t how we know it today, a lockable chest like this was where you kept everything you didn&#039;t want anybody to steal. As for date? it&#039;s old lol, the lock was changed around 1700&#039;s maybe as late as 1750 but what it had before I don&#039;t know and the only way of really dating these is by the metalwork, the hinges were used for 100&#039;s of years so they are no help. I think Spain or Portugal? I think the candle box is original but without a close inspection I can&#039;t really tell. Going by the staining where the original lock was I would&nbsp; say it had been on for some time, maybe 200 years? It&#039;s a pity someone has done the poor restoration to where the missing lock was but nothing that can&#039;t be redone. The work involved in making this chest was huge, the carving isn&#039;t the best but it took a long time and to make the boards would have taken ages. Where you bought it is also interesting, someone paid a lot of money&nbsp; to take that to the US, I doubt it was a dealer far more likely to be someone who fell in love with it in Europe and had it shipped to the US, it would have cost a lot. If I had to guess, I would say Spanish, 1400-1550, and a household chest for daily use. It needs feeding, it looks very dry. I would recommend looking at museums online for the same features as yours, you will never find the exact same but sometimes you can narrow it down. I would say it&#039;s a important piece that needs looking into, I would start by identifying the wood, maybe sending photos to Spanish museums and hope they aren&#039;t offended by getting the wrong country lol.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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