Gothic chest of the fifteenth century. Polychrome and gilded wood. It preserves its original polychrome. Measurements: 72 x 129 x 60 cm. Chest of the 15th century, probably Catalan, which follows a prototypical typology of the Gothic period, with the front of two panels separated by an upright decorated with openwork tracery, as intertwined pointed arches. The box is raised by a plinth decorated with scrollwork and molded perimeter. The same motif of tracery and double coffered ceiling is repeated on the inside of the lid. Examples of this same model and from the same period are preserved, for example, in the MNAC (National Art Museum of Catalonia), belonging to the late Gothic and Renaissance periods. They were often used as bridal chests. The gilded moldings and carvings are combined with depictions of heraldic motifs bordered with ribbons, hand-painted on each of the panels. The smooth lid protrudes slightly in bevel. The chest is the most important piece of furniture in Europe since the Romanesque period, and it will enjoy a special boom at the end of the Gothic period and during the 15th century, until it is finally replaced as a piece of representational furniture by the chest. The type of chest presented here was characteristic of Catalonia, Aragon, the Balearic Islands and Valencia. It is a very different type of chest from the contemporary French one, although similar to the Italian one. Although they originated in the Crown of Aragon, they were made all over Spain. They are mostly betrothal chests, which were an indispensable part of the wedding trousseau.