The cassone is a decorated chest, generally made in Italy. These were traditionally a gift to a bride from her parents.

There have been several museum exhibitions of cassoni recently. For more, see Scenes from a Marriage, and Cassoni and the Decameron.

Additional random notes:
Some of the examples below consist of pre-17th century panels assembled into a cassone in the 19th century.
The short side-panels are called the testate.
The cassone-painter is called the cofanaio.

• Cassone in poplar, covered with canvas, painted red and blue, decorated with tin leaf and gesso figures and reinforced with iron bands; Florence or Siena, c. 1350
• Wedding-chest (cassone) made in upper Italy in the first half of the 15th century
• Cassone with scenes from the Decameron, workshop of Giovanni Toscani, c. 1420-1425
• Cassone in pine with gilt gesso decoration inscribed with the Nicene Creed, Siena, c. 1430
• Cassone panel with scenes from a marriage ceremony, gilt gesso and tempera, Florence, c. 1430
• Cassone, made in Tuscany c. 1430-1460; poplar and walnut, joined and nailed, decorated with modelling in gesso and gilding
• The Adimari Cassone, painted by Lo Scheggia c. 1443-1450; detail
• Cassone panels (The Triumph of David, Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra, and Hercules saving Deianeira from Nessus) attributed to Lo Scheggia
• Cassone panel with the Continence of Scipio, 15th century
• Siennese chest c. 1450. Relief work in molded gesso. Currently at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. More photos: front, side, and top.
• Painted panel from a cassone with Horatius Cocles defending the Sublician Bridge, Florence, c. 1450
• Gilt and painted cassone in tempera on walnut, Florence, c. 1450
• Cassone panel with the battle of Issus, workshop of Apollonio di Giovanni, Florence, c. 1450
• Cassone panel with Trajan and the widow, tempera on panel, Florence, mid-15th century
• Cassone panel with the siege of Carthage, tempera on panel, Florence, mid-15th century
• Front panel of a cassone with Darius before the battle of Issus, by Apollino di Giovanni, 1450-1455
• Cassone with a tournament scene, c. 1455-1465
• Tuscan parcel gilt and painted pastiglia marriage cassone, walnut, second half of the 15th century
• Cassone with painted front panel, c. 1460
• Cassone made in Florence ca. 1461-1465
• Cassone with the conquest of Trebizond and heraldic devices of the Strozzi, constructed in the workshop of Marco del Buono and Apollonio di Giovanni in Florence in the 1460s
• Cassone panel with a battle between the Athenians and the Persians by Apollonio di Giovanni, 1463
• Wedding-chest (cassone) made in upper Italy in the second half of the 15th century (side view)
• Cassone with the story of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, painted by the workshop of Francesco di Giorgio Martini and Neroccio de' Landi, carved and gilded gesso on wood, painted in tempera, Siena, 1469-1475
• Cassone panel with the story of Virginia, Appius Claudius Crassus, and Epaminodas, Scipio Africanus, and Lucius Brutus; Umbro-Sienese, c. 1470
• Cassone attributed to the workshop of Neroccio de' Landi, Siena, c. 1470-75
• The Gonzaga cassone and panels, 1472
• Cassone panel with the return of Ulysses in tempera on poplar, Siena, c. 1475
• Cassone with the story of Camillus, late 15th century
• Cassone with the stories of Camillus defeating the Gauls and Horatius Cocles defending the bridge against the Etruscans (and the Nerli Cassone), painted by Jacopo del Sellaio and Biagio d’Antonio and constructed by Zanobi di Domenico, for the wedding of Donna Vaggia di Tanai di Francesco di Nerli and Lorenzo di Matteo di Morello, 1472
• Cassone panel with the death of St. Ephraim and other scenes from the lives of the hermits, Florence, c. 1480-1500
• Cassone in walnut and rosewood inlaid with ivory, possibly made in Venice or Spain, c. 1500
• Cassone probably made in Venice c. 1500, inlaid with geometrical figures in ivory, walnut and ebony
• Cassone in walnut and rosewood, inlaid with ivory and coloured woods, c. 1500
• Cassone, walnut, made in Bologna, 16th century
• Bridal chest (cassone) made in Florence in 1513 (note front panel’s similarity to this panel)
• Pair of cassoni, walnut, made in Florence c. 1550
• Cassone in parcel-gilt walnut, decorated with winged amorini pulled in chariots by mythical animals, possibly made in Rome, c. 1550
• Cassone made in the second half of the 16th century, walnut carved with heraldry and the story of David and Goliath
• Cassone and its pair, probably made to celebrate Cosimo I de’ Medici’s new title as Duke of Florence and Siena, partially-gilt walnut, c. 1561-1569
• Cassone with scenes from Greek mythology (Apollo and the python at Delphi, Clymene and Phaeton, Phaeton and Helios, and Eridanus), possibly made for the marriage of Paolo Lancelloti and Giulia Delfini, carved and gilt walnut, 1570
• A north Italian walnut and fruitwood (certosina) cassone, probably Friuli, late 16th/early 17th century
• An Italian ebonized and parcel-gilt walnut cassone, late 16th/early 17th century