A very large northern Italian, cedar and pine cassone. Circa 1600.
Elaborately decorated to the top and front with the technique: pyrography, which uses red-hot needles to incise pictorial art outlines.
A cassone was a marriage chest which were typically rich and showy Italian chests.
Cassone
£1250
Height 63cm x Width 182cm x Depth 59cm
A very large northern Italian, cedar and pine cassone. Circa 1600.
Elaborately decorated to the top and front with the technique: pyrography, which uses red-hot needles to incise pictorial art outlines.
A cassone was a marriage chest which were typically rich and showy Italian chests.
