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Trussing coffers

Scope note

Wood boxes, often covered in leather and tooled in gilt or bound with iron, which were used as traveling trunks to store papers, valuables, and clothes; of a type made in the late Medieval period.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

300039124

Broader Terms used

coffers (furniture)

Equivalent Terms used

trussing coffer

Created

13yrs ago

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