A cassone (plural cassoni) or marriage chest is a rich and showy Italian type of chest, which may be inlaid or carved, prepared with gesso ground then painted and gilded. Pastiglia was decoration in low relief carved or moulded in gesso, and was very widely used. The cassone (`large chest`) was one of the trophy furnishings of rich merchants and.....
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Italian chest, usually used as a marriage chest, and the most elaborately decorated piece of furniture of the Renaissance. Cassoni traditionally ... [3 related articles]
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In Renaissance Italy, a wooden marriage chest used for storing garments, documents, and valuables. Pairs of cassoni were made for bridal trousseaux, with one bearing the husband's armorial and the...
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An Italian word for the marriage coffer. In the Renaissance period it was the fashion to have painte
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An Italian bridal dowry chest often decorated with carved, gilt, inlaid, or painted decoration
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