Portable chest with ivory inlay

Decorated with pieces of ivory and light colored woods (the back panel is plain), the cassone is of so minute and painstaking a technique that it is attributed to the monks of the Certosa. This small cabinet with a large wrought iron lock has a pull down front panel that reveals sixteen small inlaid drawers. The corners and edges are in wrought iron. The feet were added at a later date. Probably purchased by the brothers Fausto and Giuseppe at the end of the 19th century, the chest is still displayed--as are all other objects in the museum--in its original place, thus contributing to the authentic "time capsule" ambiance.