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Cassone

early 1500s
walnut, painted and gilded
Overall: 54.3 x 168.3 x 51.6 cm (21 3/8 x 66 1/4 x 20 5/16 in.)
Gift of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., for the Coralie Walker Hanna Memorial Collection 1939.189
Location: not on view
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Chests such as this were made in pairs and presented to young women on the occasion of their marriage. They not only provided storage space in the home for clothing and personal effects, but could also be used as a bench to sit on. It was not uncommon for any one room in a Renaissance palace to have several. This chest was since the 16th century and until 1922 in Savoy Castle, near Verzuolo, in the Piedmont region of northern Italy.
Cassone

Cassone

early 1500s

Italy, early 16th century

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