Description
This very rare and important chest is been beautifully painted and lacquerd with various wild animals amongst vegetal landscape.
Colonial Hispano-South America, A Rare Polychrome Painted With Barniz De Pasto (Varnished Resin of Mopa-Mopa Tree) Domed Shape Wooden Chest With Iron Hinges & Padlock Hasp, Pasto-Colombia, Circa 17th. Century.
Identification Number: 580
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Condition
Good, chips and few Lose of Barniz De Pasto Paint, some lacquer loss, rusty iron mounts.Provence
The European Art Market.References
References:For a very similar chest please see:
The Arts in Latin America 1492-1820, Organised by Joseph J. Rishel with Suzanne Stratton-Pruitt, Philadelphia Museum Of Art Antiguo Colegio FDe San Ildefonso, Mexico City, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Yale University PressNew Haven and London, 2006, ISBN: 978-0-87633-250-4.
Please see Lot I-23 Illustrated on Page 132.