Casket Cabinet, Jewelery box made of softwood, covered with etched steel and gilt copper and glued with ash and maple wood and black-stained wood. Folding front, behind which eight drawers around a central compartment, which is closed by a door. The steel plates and the fittings are decorated with moresques and Renaissance ornament, such as scrolling and braiding, children's figures, masks, dolphins, seahorses and acanthus leaves. On the upper side of the coffin is a raised, open-worked rolling work cartouche with two putti and a medallion, within a profiled, rectangular frame. The inside
Casket Cabinet, Jewelery box made of softwood, covered with etched steel and gilt copper and glued with ash and maple wood and black-stained wood. Folding front, behind which eight drawers around a central compartment, which is closed by a door. The steel plates and the fittings are decorated with moresques and Renaissance ornament, such as scrolling and braiding, children's figures, masks, dolphins, seahorses and acanthus leaves. On the upper side of the coffin is a raised, open-worked rolling work cartouche with two putti and a medallion, within a profiled, rectangular frame. The inside of the folding leaf is engraved with a rolling cartouche with animals and fruits, in which a raised, open-worked medallion is embossed with a personification of the Geometria. There is also a raised, open-worked medallion in relief on the back of the chest. Two handles on the sides. On the outside of the door of the central compartment, which is glued with a simple pattern of different types of wood, a etched representation of Justitia. The chest has a lock with four shots and a separate key. 'Geometria' (quadrivium), 'Geometria' (Ripa), Justice, 'Justitia', 'Giustitia divina' (Ripa), one of the Four Cardinal Virtues, scrollwork, strapwork, ornament, anonymous, Augsburg (possibly), c. 1560 - c. 1600, steel (alloy), copper (metal), kern, fineer, gilding, h cm × w cm × d cm × d cm
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