Lot Essay
The mate to this cassone is currently on loan to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and can be viewed with the Robert Lehman Collection.
ROMAN, MID-16TH CENTURY
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AN ITALIAN RENAISSANCE WALNUT CASSONE
Roman, Mid-16th Century
With raised rectangular top centrally carved with a nereid issuing scrolling foliage carved with birds devouring snails enclosed by Vitruvian scrolls, foliage and scales above a gadrooned incurved frieze, the front carved throughout with scales centered by a fruit and foliate carved wreath above a leaf-tip edge, the sides flanked by winged griffins above a conforming plinth, the back legs of dolphin form
29in. (73.5cm.) high, 78in. (200cm.) wide, 30in. (76cm.) deep
Roman, Mid-16th Century
With raised rectangular top centrally carved with a nereid issuing scrolling foliage carved with birds devouring snails enclosed by Vitruvian scrolls, foliage and scales above a gadrooned incurved frieze, the front carved throughout with scales centered by a fruit and foliate carved wreath above a leaf-tip edge, the sides flanked by winged griffins above a conforming plinth, the back legs of dolphin form
29in. (73.5cm.) high, 78in. (200cm.) wide, 30in. (76cm.) deep