PERIOD: EARLY XVII. CENTURY.
WOODEN COFFER.
With wrought iron mounts and falling flap, on carved stand. Spanish.
(Collection of M. Monbrison.)
PERIOD: XVII. CENTURY.
"Besides these inlaid cabinets, others must have been made in the sixteenth century inlaid with silver. An Edict was issued in 1594, prohibiting, with the utmost rigour, the making and selling of this kind of merchandise, in order not to increase the scarcity of silver." The Edict says that "no cabinets, desks, coffers, braziers, shoes, tables, or other articles decorated with stamped, raised, carved, or plain silver should be manufactured."
The beautiful silver table in His Majesty's collection at Windsor Castle, illustrated on page [68], is probably one of Spanish make of late sixteenth or early seventeenth century.