Cassone
Category
Furniture
Date
1550
Materials
Wood
Place of origin
Italy
Collection
Wakehurst Place, West Sussex
NT 1412402
Summary
An Italian cassone dated about 1550. On four multiple carved feet. Elaborately carved with flowers, foliage and festoons of acanthus. Central medallion of dove with olive branch in its beak. On either side a lion and a sunflower. At each front end the torso of a naked woman protrudes.