An Italian walnut carved cassone with central armorial cartouche flanked by scrolling foliage above a band of lappet with scrolls and leaves and lion paw feet late 16th century, 156 cm wide, 49 cm high, 60 cm deep, For identical cassone see: Italian Cassoni from the Art Collections of Soviet Museums, compiled by Liubov Faenson, Item 159-161, formerly the Museum of the Stieglitz School of Industrial Design (Leningrad), now The Hermitage, Inv. No 135