A Late 17thC North Italian Walnut & Marquetry Inlaid Cassone sub-Antiques Length: 17 inches

Length:  17 inches

During this era many small family based companies of automata makers thrived in Paris and from their workshops they exported thousands of clockwork automata and mechanical singing birds around the world

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A varnish was then usually applied to finish the handiwork

including several times at the Royal Academy

A Late 17thC North Italian Walnut & Marquetry Inlaid Cassone sub-Antiques Length: 17 inchesOrigin: Italian Period: Late Seventeenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1670 Height: 26 inches Length: 64 inches Depth: 21 inches The hinged rectangular pine top with moulded edge above a marquetry inlaid panelled lower case, the two front central panels composed of a divided roundel with a sun and three flower motifs, within a stylised floral border, spaced by conforming raised panels, on a plinth base above later carved supports. Cassoni were