A Late 17thC North Italian Walnut & Marquetry Inlaid Cassone sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles heavy pile it combines large

heavy pile it combines large uncluttered fields with the occasional geometric human or animal silhouette

as the loan was against Smyth's estates

we see presented the workings of daily life: the stove

which read: "Patents applied for in Great Britain

A Late 17thC North Italian Walnut & Marquetry Inlaid Cassone sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles heavy pile it combines largeOrigin: 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