Antique Renaissance Grate Wrought Iron Italy XVII Century

Central Italy Late 17th-early 18th century

Small silk tapestry, with some applied inserts in painted canvas, corresponding to the faces and hands of the characters. The scene depicts Plato's Academy, with the philosopher sitting on the ground, his back against a tree, dressed in a cassock and a mantle that drapes him, with his right hand holding a tablet or parchment. He is intent on carrying out a philosophy lesson, with the young students who surround him and with one of whom he is speaking in particular. Behind a rural landscape inhabited by men who are doing agricultural work: some intent in sowing, some in harvesting and some, again, in cutting down a tree with an ax. In the background, to the right of the main group, a turreted construction can be seen, while to the left an ancient herm. Inserted in a coeval frame, molded in several orders with ebonized parts alternating with others veneered in tortoiseshell.

Lombardy First Quarter XVIII Century

Group consisting of a high chair and four chairs in carved, lacquered and partially gilded walnut, Lombardy, first quarter of the 18th century. Armrests and under armrests of the high chair moved, legs and front crossbar have the typical volutes of intertwined acanthus leaves of Fantonian origin, feet carved in a curl. Backrests and seats upholstered and covered in finely embossed leather with partially gilded decorative motifs. Small lacks in the carving; deficiencies in the gilding and lacquering. A group of similar seats are included in the collection of the Museum of Applied Arts, in the museum complex of the Castello Sforzesco in Milan.

Italy 17th century

Seventeenth-century sideboard with front with two doors surmounted on the top by a decorative support. The whole piece of furniture is made of walnut split into two by large pilasters, with a projecting cornice with indentations decorated with gilded highlights like the decorative frames and roundels. Italy 17th century

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.