AN ITALIAN WALNUT CASSONE

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AN ITALIAN WALNUT CASSONE
The rectangular hinged top with entrelac rim enclosing a plain interior above a recessed oval field with foliate slip and egg-and-dart frame, within a beaded frame with scrolling strapwork carved with guilloche, flanked to either side by a further rectangular recessed compartment between ferocious masks and similarly carved strapwork scrolls, set between framed pilasters centred by stylised female garlanded herms within a demi-paterae border, on a moulded base carved with acanthus and on scrolling feet with satyr's-masks, with an Italian inscription and the remains of a paper label with an English inscription, a label on the key inscribed 'From Inner Hall Under Baron's painting keyhole on top', late 16th early 17th Century and later
24½ in. (62 cm.) high; 62 in. (168 cm.) wide; 22 in. (56 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The strongly architectural and compartmented structure of this cassone was popular in Central Italy in the late 16th early 17th Century. A similar cassone with a central eliptical field inserted in a sequence of three rectangular panels is illustrated in F. Schottmüller ed., Wohnungskultur und Möbel der Italienischen Renaissance, Stuttgart, 1921, pl. 114. An example with similar double downscrolled feet from the Julius Bohler collection, Munich, is illustrated in Schottmüller, op.cit., pl. 133.

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