AN ITALIAN WALNUT CASSONE with moulded rectangular hinged top enclosing a plain interior, the body elaborately carved with scrolling strapwork motifs around a central cabochon cartouche surmounted by a grotesque mask and flanked to either side by oval inset panels depicting Venus in her toilet and Hymen and her torch, within an acanthus-carved frame, on moulded scalloped C-scroll base and scrolling channelled feet, part late 16th Century/early 17th Century, the feet resupported, the interior relined, with a handwritten note Cassone/contiene i ... and numbered, losses