Casket
Category
Wooden objects
Date
circa 1800 - circa 1899
Materials
Gilt wood and gesso
Measurements
370 x 500 x 330 mm
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Trelissick, Cornwall
NT 1296187
Summary
A 19th Century giltwood and gesso casket of cassone form; probably Italian. The rising top decorated with floral and foliate sprays within a stiff leaf and anthemion border, the sides painted with panels in the 16th Century style flanked by pilasters on a stiff leaf moulded plinth base.
Provenance
Purchased by the National Trust from William Copeland via Bonhams at 'The Contents of Trelissick House, including The Copeland China Collection' sale, Feock, near Truro, Cornwall, 23-24th July 2013, lot 144
Credit line
Trelissick House, The Copeland Collection (National Trust)