cassone

[ kuh-soh-nee; Italian kahs-saw-ne ]

noun,plural cas·so·ni

[kuh-soh-nee; Italian kahs-saw-nee]. /kəˈsoʊ ni; Italian kɑsˈsɔ ni/.

a large Italian chest of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, usually highly ornamented.

Origin of cassone

1880–85; <Italian, equivalent to cass(a) box (see case²) + -one augmentative suffix

The typical cassone measured about six feet in length by two in height and two in breadth.
A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery, Volume I, Foreign Schools | Various
The Italian marriage-chests (cassone) were also of a richness which was never attempted in England.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 | Various
The three screens carry four pictures—two long and narrow, evidently panels from a cassone; the others quite small.
A Wanderer in Venice | E.V. Lucas
Painted probably to adorn the front of a cassone or marriage-chest.
A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery, Volume I, Foreign Schools | Various
It is possible he was alluding to these very cassone panels.
Giorgione | Herbert Cook

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