17TH CENTURY AND LATER

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AN ITALIAN CEDAR AND POKERWORK CASSONE
17TH CENTURY AND LATER
The rectangular hinged top with decorated underside depicting a blank cartouche flanked by angels and panels with music-making couples, within a scrolling foliate border, the front panel with incised decoration of animals, angels and figures within arches, framing rectangular tablets depicting possibly mythological scenes, on a moulded later plinth and later brass castors
22¼ in. (56.5 cm.) high; 71½ in. (181.5 cm.) wide; 21 in. (53.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Possibly Henry Butler, 13th Viscount Mountgarret (1816-1900).

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Lot Essay

Henry, 13th Viscount Mountgarret, in 1844 married Frances Rawson of Nidd Hall, Yorkshire: it was from his wife's aunt that Lord Mountgarret inherited a fortune in 1891. The taste for Italian Renaissance art, 'antiques' or antiquarian objects as promoted by the academic works of Bernard Berenson and other connoisseurs blossomed at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.

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