Marriage Chest (c. 1500): Art, History and Details

Marriage Chest (c. 1500) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Elaborately carved chests were given by husbands to their wives on the occasion of the wedding. Inside the home, such chests were used for the storage of clothing and were elaborately painted and gilded. This chest is an example of a type produced in Barcelona from the late 1400s onward.

Object facts

• Title: Marriage Chest
• Date: c. 1500
• Culture: Spain, Catalonia, Barcelona(?), early 16th century
• Type: Furniture and woodwork
• Technique: wood with painting and gilding
• Dimensions: Overall: 71.8 x 127 x 55.9 cm (28 1/4 x 50 x 22 in.)
• Collection: MED - Gothic
• Department: Medieval Art
• Accession number: 1915.535

Collection credit

Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust

Further reading listed by the museum

• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.