A 17th century walnut cassone, Italian, possibly Sienna, circa 1575


Sarcophagus-shaped, the lid raised to the centre, the front board with two end-sections of applied geometric mitred-mouldings and circular bosses, centred by a carved armorial cartouche - with three upward pointing crescents - with a deep gadrooned-carved base moulding, on front angled lion-paw carved feet, 169cm wide x 55.5cm deep x 64cm high, (66 1/2in wide x 21 1/2in deep x 25in high)
|LiteratureSee F. Schottmüller, Furniture and Interior Decoration of the Italian Renaissance (1928), for a similarly designed cassone, and identical armorial. In or around 1928 it was in the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin.