A late Elizabethan or James I oak plank chest, circa 1600 The front carved with dragon-like creatures within stop-fluted uprights and flanking the central lock-plate which sits above rosettes within scrolling tendrils, standing on V-cut ends and with carved brackets, 110cm wide, 33cm deep, 55cm high. Provenance: This chest has been in the same Essex family for at least 70 years and it is believed for many generations previously.