Antique Italian Baroque Walnut & Engraved Iron Jewelry Strong Box Cassone 1600 Drawings & Prints painted on an ivory wafer

painted on an ivory wafer and signed "Smart" to the lower right hand side

This landscape was sold in the early 1990s by the revered Portland gallery of Laura Russo

the gallery

Oregon Painters: the First Hundred Years (1859-1959)

and has just lovingly received a beeswax polish in Bloomsbury's professional workshops

Antique Italian Baroque Walnut & Engraved Iron Jewelry Strong Box Cassone 1600 Drawings & Prints painted on an ivory waferSOLD A rare antique 17th century Italian Baroque walnut jewelry or strong box, circa 1600. The box made from solid walnut, the substantial box having a locking hinged lid with hand forged iron bolts, the bolts go through the lid and connect to a pair of heavy gauge engraved strap hinges. The box has a hand forged iron carrying handle with gimballed fittings allowing the handle to move. To the front is a hand forged iron flower shaped lock escutcheon