Object details
Accession number
F24w4
Primary Creator
Italian
Full title
Bench (Cassapanca)
Creation Date
late 19th century
Provenance
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection by the early 1890s.
Dimensions
117 x 175 x 59 cm (46 1/16 x 68 7/8 x 23 1/4 in.)
Display Media
Stained poplar and walnut
Web Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Permanent Gallery Location
Third Floor Stairhall and Stairway
Bibliography
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston: 1935), p. 195. (modern, partly made from a Renaissance cassone)
Fausto Calderai and Alan Chong. Furnishing a Museum: Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Collection of Italian Furniture (Boston: 2011), p. 115, no. 98.
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