Confraternity chest
Author: Unknown
Date: 17th – 18th century
Material: Oak
Dimensions (cm): H 43 x W 51 x L 407
Provenance: Unknown
Inventory No.: MAS M 91
Wooden box coated with a sort of metal grills and several locks.
This was an indispensable item for any confraternity or brotherhood and it served to keep liturgical plate, deeds or other objects. The distribution of the several keys that opened it was set out in the statutes, obliging a number of key holders among the brothers or fellows to be present at the moment of being opened.