Coffret with Revolving Combination Lock Probably Paris, mid-16th century Gilt bronze, copper, and velvet over a wood core Unlike the earlier French coffrets in the Flagg collection, the overall style and individual details of this resplendent coffret are based on antique and Renaissance architectural sources rather than late medieval ones. Here, the grotesques-those curious medleys of human and semihuman figures, fabulous beasts, and exaggerated plant forms-have their roots in the painted and stuccoed interiors of ancient buildings excavated during the Renaissance.