RARE OLD WOOD CHEST REINASSANCE 17TH CENTURY WEDDING CASSONE NORTH ITALIAN

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RARE OLD WOOD CHEST REINASSANCE 17TH CENTURY WEDDING CASSONE NORTH ITALIAN:
$933.79

RARE REINASSANCE 17TH CENTURY WEDDING CHEST (CERTOSINA) CASSONE NORTH ITALIAN

in solid pine woodpainted with flowers and leaves.
Dimensions 25 inx 13 / 1-2 in x 13 in

Lot Description

The cassone is a decorated chest, generally made in Italy. These were traditionally a gift to a bride from her parents.

There have been several museum exhibitions of cassoni recently. For more, see Scenes from a Marriage, and Cassoni and the Decameron. The cassone (or cassoni), an Italian Marriage Chest, or a Glory Box, as I\'ve always known it. They were highly decorated with fine metals, rich velvets and an artist, or artists, would be commissioned to paint arabesques, love stories, . It would have contained the bride\'s dowry and was carried from her Father\'s house to that of her groom. Later they were used to store fine linens, clothes and textiles. A marriage in 15th century Florence was more about dynastic alliance between powerful families, rather than for love or religion.

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