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Bishop Chest

Generic classification
Furniture
Object
Ark
Century
15th c.
Cultural context / style
Gothic
Dimensions
32 5/16 x 81 1/8 x 26 9/16 in.
Material
Iron, Wood
Technique
Carved
Provenance
Heilbronner Gallery / Heilbronner Galleries / Raoul Heilbronner (Paris, France)
Current location
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, United States)
Inventory Number in Current Collection
F30w2
Inscriptions / Marks

Coat of arms of Rodrigo de Velasco, bishop of Palencia

Object history

Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Galeries Heilbronner, Paris for 17,000 francs on 23 November 1906.

Description

The chest of don Rodrigo de Velasco, who was bishop of the cathedral of Palencia from 1518 to 1525, the year he died in the castle of Villamuriel de Cerrato, residence of the bishops of Palencia. The coat of arms of Don Rodrigo appears in the center of the decoration of the longest side, just below the lock. It is a chest made of walnut wood, with decoration of ogee arches, typical for this type of furniture in the Gothic. The decoration covers everything. In this case, each of the ogee arches has alternating decoration of rosettes on pointed arches in the form of twinned openings with fleur-de-lis on the ogee arches of the second and sixth arches. The decorative richness of this piece of furniture continues on the narrower sides of the chest, where the rosettes have other motifs different from those on the longer side.

* The relative location of dealers, antique shops, art galleries, and collectors leads us to the places where they were based or had one of their main headquarters. However, this does not always indicate that every artwork that passed through their hands was physically located there. In the case of antique dealers and art merchants, their business often extended across multiple territories; sometimes they would purchase items at their origin and send them directly to clients. Similarly, some collectors owned multiple residences, sometimes in different countries, where they housed their collections. It is often difficult to determine exactly where a specific piece was kept during its time in their possession. Consequently, the main location of the dealer or collector is indicated. These factors should be considered when interpreting the map. Refer to the object's history in each case.
Bibliography
  • Gilbert Wendel Longstreet y Morris Carter (1935): General Catalogue, Boston, p. 269.
  • Grace Hardendorff Burr (1964): Hispanic Furniture, New York, p. 7.
  • Ronald Hilton (1956): Handbook of Hispanic Source Materials and Research Organizations in the United States, Standford, California, p. 196.
Citation:

Ana Diéguez Rodríguez, "Bishop Chest" in Nostra et Mundi. Cultural Heritage from Castile and Leon around the world, Fundación Castilla y León, 2025. https://inventario.nostraetmundi.com/en/work/255

Chest of a Bishop

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Bishop Chest

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Bishop Chest

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