PROPERTY FROM THE SPEED ART MUSEUM, SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ACQUISITIONS FUND (LOTS 205-243)

A PAIR OF ITALIAN WALNUT CASSONI

PROBABLY 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF ITALIAN WALNUT CASSONI
PROBABLY 19TH CENTURY
Each with a stepped lid above sarcophagus-form sides, vigorously carved with scrolls around a central applied armorial on paw feet, with red museum accession numbers 41.52.1 and 51.52.2
25¾ in. (65.5 cm.) high, 64¼ in. (163.5 cm.) wide, 21¾ in. (55.5 cm.) deep (2)

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Gift of Dr. Preston Pope Satterwhite, Great Neck, Long Island, New York and Palm Beach, Florida, 1941.

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Related cassoni, with the same motifs of stylized scrolls, leaf-carved angles and a central armorial, are illustrated in G. Wannenes, Mobili d'Italia: Gotico, Rinascimento e Barocco, Milan, 1988, p. 84, fig. 22, and A. Massinelli, Il Mobile Toscano, Milan, 1993, p. 50, fig. 73 (in the Museo Horne, Florence).