Box
1600-1699 (made)
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Box Spanish American: 17th century. Pine wood covered with leather with decoration tooled in relief, incised and coloured in red, blue, white and yellow. Hasp and round openwork escutcheon of iron. Modern interior lining of brown satin. Rectangular with hinged lid. On the top, two surrounds of scrolled floral stems enclosing a central oblong panel in which appears the Imperial Double Headed Eagle supported by heraldic beasts. On the front of the lid a border of pomegranate stems with a similar pair of confronting beasts. Back and sides are decorated with borders of tulip stems and other conventional scrolled stems. Plain bottom.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Softwood with embossed and painted leather |
| Brief description | Box, Bolivian(?) Spanish American, 1600-1699, leather, painted |
| Physical description | Box Spanish American: 17th century. Pine wood covered with leather with decoration tooled in relief, incised and coloured in red, blue, white and yellow. Hasp and round openwork escutcheon of iron. Modern interior lining of brown satin. Rectangular with hinged lid. On the top, two surrounds of scrolled floral stems enclosing a central oblong panel in which appears the Imperial Double Headed Eagle supported by heraldic beasts. On the front of the lid a border of pomegranate stems with a similar pair of confronting beasts. Back and sides are decorated with borders of tulip stems and other conventional scrolled stems. Plain bottom. |
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| Gallery label | TWO BOXES covered with leather stamped in relief and painted in brilliant colours, and fitted with wrought iron mounts. A conspicuous feature of the design of the leatherwork is the double-headed eagle of the Holy Roman Empire, the emblem of the Spanish monarchs under the Habsburgs, a device not infrequently found on old buildings and works of art throughout Spanish America.
Bolivian; 17th century.
Presented by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales
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| Credit line | Given by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII |
| Object history | Gift from H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, St. James’s Palace SW1. 35/5189. Gift from the Bolivian Chamber of Commerce to the Prince of Wales. [Edward VIII (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David; 23 June 1894 – 28 May 1972) was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire, and Emperor of India, from 20 January 1936 until his abdication on 11 December the same year.] |
| Historical context | Comparable objects: See Campos Carlés de Peña, María. A Surviving Legacy in Spanish America : Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Furniture from the Viceroyalty of Peru (Ediciones El Viso, [2013]), p.141-148 Discusses boxes with similar decoration. |
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| Accession number | W.59:1-1935 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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