"noble Carriage Trunk" Studded In Leather With A Domed Lid, From The Louis XIV Period With A Decorated Front

Spectacularly decorated, this beautiful mid-17th-century carriage trunk in pure Louis XIV style has a richly ornamented facade with various bronze stud motifs in rosettes, arcades, stylized flowers and leaves, curved corner frames, large blooming flowers in cups surrounded by interlacing, large round and boat-shaped polished heads, a magnificent facade with a mascaron head at the keyhole entrance, surmounted on the front drop-front part of the lid by a beautiful basket adorned with blooming flowers, a richness in its uncommon ornamentation; This trunk, bearing on the top the monogram M. A in a leather frame on a patinated natural wood lid adorned with studded leather friezes, the existing lock closing with a key and its sober interior with the ribbon crossbar for papers inside the domed interior, covered with an ecru used linen, elongated wrought iron end handles dangling and the rear and under crossbars reinforcements.