Louis Vuitton Hat Box, Leather and Canvas, France 1970s

Big parchment trunk with gilded brass corners and dark leather finishings; the inside has a soft fabric lid. It is a trunk of a good quality made by an anonymous autor

19th Century / 1801 - 1900

Empire console supported by plinth-shaped rear pillars and tapered frontal ones; walnut with green marble top.

19th Century / 1801 - 1900

Bronze dish finely engraved and gilded in relief with plant and animal motifs. The dish is held by a gilt bronze riser, pierced and chased. The four feet are in the shape of a ferine with leaf volutes and the two handles are in the shape of winged dragons.

18th Century / 1701 - 1800

Neo classical torch holder engraved with leafy motifs; partially lacquered.

Maria Dolente

Marble bas-relief. Engraved signature along the left margin. Born in Cannobbio (on Lake Maggiore), Giulio Branca was introduced to the art by the Cannobio sculptor Bergonzoli, and later attended G. Strazza's school of nude drawing and sculpture at the Brera Academy. Born in Cannobio on 13 December 1850 to Ludovico, he was introduced to art by the Cannobio sculptor Bergonzoli, and attended the school of the nude and G. Strazza's school of sculpture at the Brera Academy. He made about four hundred sculptures, including memorials, funerary monuments and portrait busts. Branca also took part, following a competition, in the completion of the high wall of the cathedral of Como, which had remained unfinished for centuries, sculpting several figures in white marble for the façade and the altar between 1897 and 1900. The work presented here is a bas-relief showing a half-bust of the grieving Madonna flanked by two pious women. It is presented in a coeval wooden frame from the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century.

20th Century / 1901 - 2000

Partially gilded wrought iron chandelier with 9 lights on 2 levels,.