About the Artwork
Chest
16th century
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Italian
Italian
Carved walnut
Overall: 25 1/4 × 67 5/8 × 23 inches (64.1 × 171.8 × 58.4 cm)
Furniture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Gift of Mrs. Griffith O. Ellis
21.186
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Provenance
(Henri Heilbronner, Berlin, Germany)
Purchased by Mrs. Griffith Odgen Ellis
Mrs. Griffith Ogden Ellis
1921-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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J.W., "XVI Century Cassoni," Bulletin of the DIA,4, no. 2, November 1922, pp. 13-14, p. 13 (ill)
Fisher C.G., "Note on a Sixteenth-Century Cassone," Kresge Art Museum Bulletin 1, Michigan State University, 1985,, pp. 61-64, p. 62 (ill)
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Italian, Chest, 16th century, carved walnut. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. Griffith O. Ellis, 21.186.
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