Wedding chest
 
Date Description Source Reference
15th century. Front panel, right. Seven bell tents, ball apexes, multipatterned roof and walls, pole visible on front tent, dark interior lining. 'Well-bred brides, weathy bride grooms, and substantial dowries went hand in hand in fifteenth century Florence, exemptified by this very elaborate wedding chest. 

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.'

Mee, C.L., Lorenzo De Medici and the Renaissance, London, 1969, p. 79.


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