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Cassone with a Tournament Scene
Italian, Florentine
probably about 1455-65 · Carved and gilded wood
Dimensions 38.1 x 130.2 cm
Collection: National Gallery, London
Painted chests were one of the most expensive items in a fifteenth-century Florentine household. Known as cassone (literally ‘a large chest’) they ...
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