Classic Design: Furniture, Clocks, Silver & Ceramics

An Italian carved walnut cassone, Tuscany, in the Renaissance manner

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Lot Closed

May 23, 01:02 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

An Italian carved walnut cassone, in the Renaissance manner

of sarcophagus shape, the front of architectural fashion, carved with triglyphs interspersed with armorial family crests symbolising a marriage, and military trophies.

68cm. high, 208cm. wide, 67cm. deep

An almost identical cassone is in the collections of, and on view at, the National Gallery of Scotland (illustrated in Timothy Clifford, Choice: Twenty-Years of Collecting for Scotland, 2005, pp.56-57, no.26), and has been dated to 1550-60. It had been previously sold by the Lord Astor of Hever, at Sotheby's London, 15th July 1983, lot 21.

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