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Wood, covered with leather, cut and embossed with conventional foliage and animals and enriched with colours on a red ground. On the front, a roundel containing a standing lion(?) embracing a stylised flower or young tree. The lid has a scalloped border on three sides overlapping the join. On either side is an iron bail handle. On the front two iron loops are fixed, so that the lid can be secured with a padlock (missing). The inside is lined with silk brocade of the 17th century. 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Wood. Covered with leather,  “cuir bouilli”, decorated with floral designs, the double headed eagle, lions, and birds, symmetrically arranged in green and gold on a red ground (the colours now much worn). The inside is lined with silk brocade woven with flowers in gold and colours. It has a padlock and key. Italian 15th century\"\n\nRevised June 1899 to \"Coffer of wood, covered with leather (cuir bouilli), cut and embossed with conventional foliage and animals and enriched with colours; the inside is lined with silk brocade of the 17th century. It has a screw padlock of chiselled iron. Probably made in a Portuguese colony in the East; 17th century\"\r\n","historicalContext":"Comparable objects: \r\nSee 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.146\nIllustrates a similar trunk: Travel petaca, Museo de Arte de Lima collection, 18th c. 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