Illustrated catalogue of the exceedingly rare and valuable art treasures and antiquities formerly contained in the famous Davanzati Palace, Florence, Italy . No. 447. Sixteenth Century Siexese Painted Armor Cabin br 448—Fourteenth Century Venetian Carved Waiatt CofferRectangular shape, with hinged lid. The front and ends are ! 449- richly carved with a Gothic arcading of six round arches sup-ported on carved pillars with molded bases. From the capitalsof these pillars spring inner crocketed and trefoil-finialed arches,and the spaces below are filled with Gothic tracery. In thecenter is a

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Illustrated catalogue of the exceedingly rare and valuable art treasures and antiquities formerly contained in the famous Davanzati Palace, Florence, Italy . No. 447. Sixteenth Century Siexese Painted Armor Cabin br 448—Fourteenth Century Venetian Carved Waiatt CofferRectangular shape, with hinged lid. The front and ends are ! 449- richly carved with a Gothic arcading of six round arches sup-ported on carved pillars with molded bases. From the capitalsof these pillars spring inner crocketed and trefoil-finialed arches,and the spaces below are filled with Gothic tracery. In thecenter is a narrower arched recess occupied by a shield hangingto a conventional tree. The plinth of the base is carved with apattern of conventionalized trunks of trees. Wrought-iron lock. Height, :i feet; length, 8 feet 1 inch; depth, 2 feet 1 o inches. Sixteenth Century Tuscan Walnut BenchRectangular shape. Straight hack, with molded top divided intoone square and two oblong molded panels. The straight pedestalarms are carved in the fronts with scrolled female masks. Theseat front is paneled, carved with a head and reel, and incurvesto a molded base. The whole stands upon a platform base. Height, -i feet T1 ( inches;

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