Lot 37
  • 37

A fine Italian carved walnut cassone, Florentine 16th century

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 EUR
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Description

  • height 62cm., width 170cm., depth 56cm.
with a raised rectangular top, above a paterae carved frieze, the front carved with an armorial shield flanked on each side by cherubs and fruit and flower festoons, the corners and sides carved with acanthus and palmetto leaf ornament, on claw feet

Provenance

Dr. J.A. van Dongen, Amsterdam

Thence by descent to the present owner, by circa 1962

Catalogue Note

The arms are probably those of the Marchesi BORBONE de MONTE SANTA-MARIA of Florence (J.B. Rietstap, Armorial Général, Gouda 1886, vol. I, p. 249).