A LARGE GERMAN OAK AND IRON BOUND CHEST OR STOLLENTRUHE WESTPHALIAN, 15th / 16TH CENTURY with fleur-de-lys strapwork mounts, the hinged cover revealing a vacant interior, the front with a cartouche shaped lock plate 87.5cm high, 200.5cm wide, 75cm deep Provenance Purchased by the current owner's grandfather on the 12th Ocberter 1932 from Shenkers Galleries, 75, Baker Street, London, for £75. Catalogue Note See the Met Museum, New York, accession numbers 13.205.2 and 25.120.319 for two chests with very similar fleur-de-lys strapwork mounts and both dated as 15 th century.

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