Antique bargains - Page 2

Europe, Early XX Century

Group of 4 glass goblets with engraved decorations and painted in various colours.

Europe XIX-XX century

Group of twelve glasses in ground and engraved glass of different manufactures, shapes and colors. Some glasses belong to the Biedermeier period and are of Austrian or German origin.

Pair of ceramic vases with cylinrical base and decorations of oriental figures inside the reserves.

Earthenware Statue of a sitting man. Anonymous author.

India Early 1900s

Carved wooden pestle with spool lathe handle, square central part with lotus flower carving and arrowhead.

France Mid 1900s

Bronze pocket watch. Enamelled metal display with finely pierced bronze hands.

France Second half of the 19th century

Triptych clock in gilded and chiseled bronze. The clock has a wide base with leaf scroll decorations and finely engraved plant motifs on which rests the clock case adorned with flower garlands closed with ribbon. At the top, a cup-shaped vase with a floral composition. Enamelled metal display with hours in Roman numerals and minutes in Arabic numerals protected by a lid with curved glass. The hands are in finely pierced gilt bronze. The mechanism is marked Japy Fils 1855. The pair of gilded and chiseled bronze candelabra with five flames measure a height of 55 centimeters.

20th Century / 1901 - 2000

Terracotta sculpture depicting Madonna with Child.

Hamburg 1837 - 1862

Sextant "D. Filby Hamburg" in ebonized wood, brass and bone, vernier with adjustment screw, three colored filters for the fixed mirror and four for the mobile one, sighting telescope with optics. Contained in a wooden box in mahogany.

16th Century / 1501 - 1600

A basement of the Renaissance, bronze. Three feet and a hole in the middle. Three paws of winged lions support the basement. Bas reliefs depicting garlands surmounted by storks are represented within a reserve contained in moldings on each side of the basement. The three uprights are surmounted by ram's heads. The round relief was probably welded in the 19th century to convert the item in an inkpot. Manufactured in Tuscany, Italy, first half of the 16th century.

Soapstone sculpture depicting a Guanyin with a basket of flowers. Finely carved with beautiful workmanship of the drapery and attention to detail. Republic period.

19th Century / 1801 - 1900

Crucified Christ in finely carved boxwood mounted on a panel covered in yellow fabric.

Vases in terracotta

Pair of medicean vases with plinth shaped base decorated with anathemas. The two vases show the same decoration of two handles shaped as ram's head. The surface is gilded with gold leaf. One of the two vases had been restored.

France Second Fourth XIXth Century

Restoration dressing table finished in a day entirely veneered with mahogany feather, France, second quarter of the 19th century. Stand with pair of side drawers and tilting mirror, top in white marble with tray, drawer in the band containing Moroccan insert placed on a sliding wooden panel; column rear legs, moved front legs, the latter ending with lion feet in gilded bronze resting on a shaped base with wheels. Decorated with leaves and floral elements in chiseled gilt bronze. Mahogany and poplar interior.

China, Ming Era (1368-1644)

Glazed ceramic vase.

Bergamo, Early XVIII Century

Chest of drawers with front with 4 drawers decorated with walnut briar, cherry wood inlays and maple threads, uprights carved to depict caryatids with children's faces and inlaid bracket feet. Bergamo early 18th century

Italy, Early XX Century

Large sideboard in walnut with shaped and edged top. Front with upper door veneered in olive wood concealing flap, ornamental tray painted and set in the center of the reserve and two doors below with spool knob and borders in the lower band.

Northern Italy, Late XIX Century

Sideboard in larch with upper part decorated with pinnacles, shaped cymatium, front with two doors decorated with etched glass and an underlying body containing a single drawer in the band under the top and two carved doors. Uprights carved to depict curl motifs. Northern Italy, late 19th century

Novara Late XIX - Early XX Century

Hand-cranked piano in lacquered and painted wood, attributable to the Piedmontese production Ottina and Pellandi, Novara late 19th - early 20th century. The decorations and colors make it hypothesized a destination for Sicilian public places, where in this period dance parties, theatrical and cinematographic performances were held. The Ottina e Pellandi company was active in Novara between the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. Mechanism not tested.