Lot 462
An Antique Indo-African Brass-Mounted Hardwood "Treasure" Chest, Zanzibar, rectangular trunk over three frieze drawers, hinged lid opening to fitted interior, exterior embellished with pierced brass panels and brass studs, height 21 3/4 in., width 50 3/4 in., depth 24 1/4 in., later wood stand, overall height 33 1/4 in Provenance: With Commander David Enderby Blunt, explorer, author, and elephant control officer in Tanganyika; to Russell B. Aitken (1910-2002); to Christie's, New York, The Russell B. Aitken Collection of African and Oceanic Art, April, 2003, lot 128; to current owner. Note: In "Zanzibar - Island Jewel", an article written by Russell Barnett Aitken for Natural History Magazine in March 1951, p. 120, Aitken writes: "These chests were made in Surat, India. Ancient Arabs, distrusting banks, used them for protecting money and jewels".
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