Terms vs Cassone - What's the difference?
terms | cassone |
A highly-decorated traditional Italian dowry chest.
*1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , Vintage 2007, p. 107:
*:There was the huge Italian cassone , with its fantastically painted panels and its tarnished gilt mouldings, in which he had so often hidden himself as a boy.
*1941 , (W Somerset Maugham), Up at the Villa , Vintage 2004, p. 45:
*:On the way through he paused to look at a handsome cassone that stood against the wall; then he caught sight of the gramophone.
