Lot Essay
This cassone is after an arca de novia which is in the Museo Episcopal Talleres de Vich and is illustrated in M. Aguiló Alonso, El Meuble en España, Siglos XVI-XVII, p. 192, fig. 40.
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A SPANISH RENAISSANCE STYLE POLYCHROME AND PARCEL-GILTWOOD CASSONE
With hinged rectangular top, the reverse painted with scenes of the Madonna and Child and St. Jerome in the Desert, the front decorated with armorial shields and a side panel opening to reveal three fretwork drawers, above a stepped base
26½in. (67cm.) high, 55½in. (141cm.) wide, 24in. (61cm.) deep
With hinged rectangular top, the reverse painted with scenes of the Madonna and Child and St. Jerome in the Desert, the front decorated with armorial shields and a side panel opening to reveal three fretwork drawers, above a stepped base
26½in. (67cm.) high, 55½in. (141cm.) wide, 24in. (61cm.) deep