Secrétaire Louis Philippe Mahogany France XIX Century - France, Mid XIX Century

France, Mid XIX Century

Lobed edge majolica plate with polychrome cornucopia decoration, insects, butterflies and birds.

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.

Oil painting on canvas. This is a small copy of Titian's work of the same name, created around 1532 and today preserved in the Louvre Museum. Originally it was thought that the work portrayed Alfonso d'Avalos, marquis of Vasto, bidding farewell to his wife before going to fight the Turks. Instead, it is more likely a prototype of a matrimonial allegory that enjoyed widespread success in Venice. The spouses are represented in the guise of Mars (in armour) and Venus, and are accompanied by Cupid, protector deity of love, who holds a bundle of arrows, by Vesta, goddess of the domestic hearth, crowned with myrtle, symbol of marital fidelity , and by Hymenaeus, divinity of weddings who offers a basket of fruit and flowers. The woman holds a crystal ball, as if she wanted to peer into the future. The melancholic expressions of the protagonists have been read as a reference to the possible death or departure of one of the two spouses. The painting is presented in a contemporary frame.

Oil painting on canvas. The painting portrays the face of an elderly saint, holding a lily in his hand, a symbol of purity, while reading a large book, presumably a sacred text. It is presumably a representation of Saint Joseph: if tradition usually has him represented with Baby Jesus in his arms, starting from the Renaissance Joseph began to also be depicted absorbed in reading a book, in the guise of a "philosopher", or a man who drew the wisdom of knowing how to make right and wise choices from reading sacred texts. The work is presented in a contemporary frame.

France, Mid XIX Century

Plate with lobed edge with polychrome decoration with vegetal motifs, cornucopia and torch on a pale blue background.

Oil on wooden board. The small glimpse represents a wooded glimpse, leafy and shaded, in which various figurines stroll and enjoy themselves. The signature AJ Garnier appears at the bottom center, which refers to the French artist Alfred Jean Garnier (1848 -1908), enameller, painter and engraver. The painting is presented in a period frame.

Northern Italy, Late XIX Century

Group of six polychrome majolica plates with decorations of vegetal, animal and writing motifs.

Oil on canvas. Portrait of a middle-aged woman, dressed entirely in black, perhaps for mourning. Restored and relined, the painting is presented in a contemporary gilded frame.

England, Late XIX Century

Briar lady's casket with brass inserts. Inside compartments with coeval glass flasks and compartments in velvet and purple silk. The opening front reveals two drawers. The lids of the bottles are missing.

Oil painting on canvas. French school. At the bottom left are the signature and date written backwards; the signature is readable as H. Faillade. At the bottom right there is the Latin writing " Quando ex exilio redibit!!!"; (When he returns from exile!). This writing underlines the bond of the man portrayed with the young general depicted in the small picture that he holds in his hand, probably his relative and linked to the monarchy of Charles, the last sovereign of the Bourbon-France dynasty, absolutist and anti-liberal monarch, overthrown from the throne and fled in exile in 1830 during the July Revolution, known as the Second French Revolution. The painting is presented in a period frame.

19th Century / 1801 - 1900

Perforated silver cruet supported by ferine-shaped feet. At the top taken with a pair of swans. Platelets with oil and vinegar written in silver but posthumous. Contemporary glass elements. 620 grams.