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{
    "localId": "122302",
    "label": "Marriage Chest (Cassone)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

{
    "id": "122302",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Marriage Chest (Cassone)",
    "description": "Large storage chests resembling ancient Roman burial vaults-a popular collectible among wealthy families during the Renaissance-were often associated with an important marriage and contained the wife’s dowry of clothes and precious objects. This particular example displays the arms of the Spada Family of Rome amidst a richly carved façade on a gilded ground. Sometimes cassoni were carried in the marital procession from the bride’s home to that of her future husband, emphasizing the power and wealth of both families.",
    "date": "early 1500s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.609",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60752585"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Furniture and woodwork"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.609/1942.609_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.609/1942.609_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.609/1942.609_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 62.2 x 172 x 55.9 cm (24 1/2 x 67 11/16 x 22 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Italy, early 16th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1942.609"
}

{
    "tec": "walnut with traces of gilding",
    "tombstone": "Marriage Chest (Cassone), early 1500s. Italy, early 16th century. Walnut with traces of gilding; overall: 62.2 x 172 x 55.9 cm (24 1/2 x 67 11/16 x 22 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of John L. Severance, 1942.609",
    "collection": "Decorative Arts",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "John Long Severance Art Collection Photographs: Furniture, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 221; Reproduced: p. 223",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/SeveranceFurniture/page/n219/mode/1up"
        },
        {
            "citation": "<em>Catalogue of the John L. Severance Collection: Bequest of John L. Severance, 1936.</em> [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 35, cat. no. 44",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/SeveranceBequest/page/n39"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Milliken, William M., Gertrude Underhill, and Jean Mailey. \"Department of Decorative Arts.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 29, no. 9 (November 1942): 137-151.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 140-141",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141017"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.609",
    "creditline": "Bequest of John L. Severance",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:17:48.072000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.609/1942.609_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 122302,
    "dept": "Decorative Art and Design",
    "coll": "Decorative Arts",
    "med": "walnut with traces of gilding",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.609/1942.609_web.jpg",
    "mediaId": "2750b9c89a283110"
}