Neo-Renaissance style chest

Oak; 70.8 x 179 x 74.5 cm;
Western Europe; 2nd half of 19th century.
In the form of a sarcophagus with a folding lid on which a coffered decoration is superimposed, with a straight body with a front richly carved with figural scenes and forged handles on the sides, placed on a prominent platform with a profiled rim decorated with an ornament of stylized leaves and wolf's eyes, resting on flattened spheres. The body is framed on the chamfered corners by volutes, and on the front by nude female figures flanking the reserves on the sides and a centrally placed oval heraldic cartouche. In the reserves with a form resembling the shape of a gingerbread man, an execution scene on the left and a battle scene on the right.
The chest with form and decoration referring to Italian Renaissance furniture. Decorated with richly
artistic woodcarving decoration. Similar furniture was fashionable in the 2nd half of the 19th century.