Oggetti: Cassone Montefeltro - Gonzaga

This travelling chest bears the coats of arms of Elizabetta Gonzaga of Mantua (1471–1526) and Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino (1472–1508). The couple were betrothed in 1486 and married in 1488. This may have been one of ten similar chests made for their use during the wedding preparations and formalities, and recorded in an inventory of Elisabetta’s trousseau corredo, compiled around 25th February 1488: ‘Venti forzieri, dieci lavorati d’oro, dieci depinti a la divisa’ (twenty chests, ten gilded, ten painted with heraldic arms/devices).