Italy XVI - First Half XVII Century

Small Mannerist frame in ebony with commissary marble, Italy 16th - first half 17th century. Molded perimeter with protruding sections at the corners, 4 reserves in violet stain slab marble, molded octagonal frame placed in the center originally decorated with 4 small turned elements on the sides, 2 present with lacks while 2 completely absent, oval light. Restoration interventions of the late nineteenth century, added the oak bottom and replaced some ebony frames.

Florence, Mid XVIII Century

Baroque console in carved and gilded wood with top in Siena's marble, Florence, mid-18th century. Supported by four wavy legs connected to each other by a central crosspiece, the console is decorated with curl carvings, "C" shaped volutes and rocaille, leafy and floral elements, the latter placed in the band under the top. Restorations on the floor.

Sheffield, Mid XX Century

Engraved and engraved 925 silver tea and coffee service. Knob-shaped fruit and leaves. The service consists of a teapot, coffee pot, milk jug and sugar bowl. Silver and silversmith's marks engraved under the bases. 2090 grams.

Italy, Late XIX Century

Inkwell in yellow Siena marble with a gilt bronze bust of Napoleon at the top. On the sides, gilded bronze inkwells with finely chiseled fret decorations and leafy scrolls. The inkwell is supported by four circular gilt bronze feet.

Sideboard with sliding doors in teak veneered wood, enamelled metal legs and brass handles. Restored.

France Mid 19th Century

Chiseled and gilded bronze clock. The complex decoration of this clock over the apparent eclecticism of the whole makes the structural typologies and figurative details typical of sixteenth-century architecture prevail, proposing the facade of a building with a central staircase and statues of vestal virgins on the sides. The enamelled metal exhibition has the manufacturer's brand in the center but not very legible. The clock is surmounted by putti holding a wreath. Movement marked Cailly Ainè 1839 on the back of the dial.

Italy Last quarter of the 18th century

Lombard neoclassical chest of drawers veneered in briar walnut with borders in bois de rose and violets, Italy, last quarter of the 18th century. On the front, the three drawers as well as the sides are framed by a relief frame, highlighted by the uprights where the pilasters have a third order of projection that outlines the architectural character of the piece of furniture. On the sides as on the frote, thanks to the flush drawers with retractable chain, we find reserves in walnut briar inlaid in boxwood and maple, with floral and phytomorphic motifs arranged circularly and vase elements. On the frames of the reserves are Greek inlaid with successive leaves and on the uprights motifs with sloping discs. Feet in a jar. Top in Bardiglio gray marble replaced, restorations. The piece of furniture presents in the taste of the inlay and in the arrangement of the same, different points of contact with the work of Mortarino both in the furniture attributed to him and in the certain ones; to this example the inlaid motifs on the uprights are reflected in the side borders of the two Mantuan dressers. See Enrico Sala, Maggiolini & Co.

Lombardy First Quarter 19th Century

Lombard fireplace in walnut, with ebonized and gilded parts. In the lower part a base with a broken plinth, with ebonized reserves delimited by carved strokes with successive leaflets and gilded with leaf. In the upper part, a central door with a mercury mirror, with a golden groove between two frames with successive leaves, also re-proposed more externally. The door is framed between two tapered and ebonized pilasters, with a capital carved with gilded acanthus leaves, to support the broken entablature and adorned with pods, leaflets and gilded acanthus leaves, alternating with a walnut band and a notched frame.

Vintage service trolley with inclined arms and magazine rack function in stained wood, glass and brass.

Lombardy, Mid XVIII Century

Large double-body library sideboard, on the front it has three pairs of paneled doors with characteristic frames, also featured in the upper body, following the wavy volume of the cymatium. In walnut, the sides are in poplar and the back in fir. The piece of furniture has been reduced in width and has small defects.

Sideboard in walnut wood with hinged doors and drawers. Design by Gianfranco Frattini, production by Bernini. Unrestored piece of furniture but in excellent general condition. Very good condition

Elegant bar cabinet with hinged doors with glass holder compartments and drawers inside, open compartments and double containers with lighting and flap opening. In walnut veneer and ebony-stained solid wood and features mirrored glass. Restored.

Set of four 1970s "Monk" model chairs with solid beech wood structure, seat and backrests in cognac-coloured leather. In good general condition, they show some signs of aging.

Particular group of 6 chairs, exotic wood veneer, foam padding, fabric covering. In very good condition. Restored.

The Wayfarers 1910

Oil on cardboard. At the bottom left is the autographed inscription "Bozzetto per una copia", with the signature and the date Christmas 1910; the title at the bottom right. It is a sketch for a replica with variations of the homonymous painting made by Carena in 1907, large monumental (159 x 300 cm), exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 1909 and now kept in the Civic Museums, Modern Art Gallery of Udine, Some moving figures appear in the work, precisely of wayfarers, representing the different categories of humanity, men and women, adults and children, old and young, but all traveling in the same direction. Compared to the original, in this sketch with still undefined facial features, the figures are placed in slightly different positions, with the young man wrapped in a red cloak in the center, and the lower part as well as the background are missing. The colors are almost harsh, lively, spread with rapid brushstrokes and with undefined contours. The painting belongs to Carena's still symbolist pictorial phase, inspired by the French symbolism of Eugène Carrière, a period which ended with his participation in the 1912 Biennale. The work is presented in a coeval frame.

Trentino First half of the 19th century

Pair of small sculptures in carved Swiss pine; on a circular base there are two standing figures, one of an unidentified bishop, while the other of San Rocco: applied to the cloak are the two shells, symbol of pilgrimage, and the robe allows a glimpse of the plague; the little dog is missing, an attribute with which it is usually accompanied. Both are protected by glass bells.

Naples Third Quarter XVIII Century

Neapolitan Rococo chest of drawers, supported by curved feet, the under-the-top band is curved as well; on the curved front, it features two drawers with retractable chain. Quadripartite veneered wood, with double borders set at 45° degrees, the same motif is proposed in the reserves on the sides. The two drawers are decorated with a central inlay with a poly-lobed threading with a bouquet of flowers inside, inhabited by a parrot. The shaped top is in red breccia marble from the Appennini; the handles is bronzy and bronze appliqués are used on the feet, on the upper part of the uprights and in the centre of the frontal apron.

Three-seater sofa designed by Gianfranco Frattini and produced by Cassina since the end of the 1950s. Legs in enamelled metal and wood, foam padding, fabric covering in shades of recently redone grey. Very good condition.

Snowy Landscape with Figures 1872

Oil on canvas. Signed, dated 1872 and located in Parma in the lower right corner. It is a large winter landscape with a strong scenic impact, which fits well into the scenographic traditionalism of the painting of Mentore Silvani, a native artist of Traversetolo (Parma), a landscape painter but also known as a set designer. In the scene, sprinkled with the white of a short snowfall that creates that typical rarefied and silent winter atmosphere, between bare and dry trees, a dirt road winds its way through by a traveler; on the right a dilapidated building with a wash house where a woman draws water; in the center a small column on which a sacred image is mounted. Trained in his hometown, Silvani participated in the exhibitions of the Encouragement of Parma starting from 1864, and it is mainly in his city that his works are found today (at the Municipality of Parma, the National Gallery, the Paolo Toschi artistic high school ); however, he also exhibited in Milan (1872) and Florence (1875). Trained as a scenographer at the school of Gerolamo Magnani, Silvani held this position in Parma but also in Venice starting from 1871. His pictorial production, which includes mainly rural landscapes of the Parma countryside, is always characterized by fidelity to reality. The work proposed here is presented in a contemporary frame.

Lombardy, Early XVIII Century

Pair of baroque walnut consoles, Lombardy, early 18th century. The front is composed of a succession of curls and wavy elements, according to a well-defined design; reserves, leafy and shell-shaped elements and small festoons with a flower in the centre, falling from the upper part of the uprights, complete the front decorative apparatus. Shaped top, crosspieces and turned rear uprights, the latter protruding laterally compared to the front uprights and embellished with a bulbous element placed at half their height. The layout and the carvings of the front present a typically Lombard layout, characterized by a strong resemblance to a group of seats of Fantonian origin, included within the collection of the Museum of Applied Arts at the Castello Sforzesco museum complex in Milan.