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19th Century, English George III Inlaid Console and Game Table
Located in IT
19th Century, English George III Inlaid Console and Game Table
Measures: closed: cm W 92,5 x D 46,5 x H 78,5; open: cm W 92,5 x D 93 x H 76,5
This refined console table can be tra...
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Antique Early 19th Century English George III Game Tables
Materials
Wood
18th Century, Pair of Italian Lacquered Chinoiserie Wood Sofas
Located in IT
Pair of sofas in carved walnut and lacquered chinoiserie, Venice, early 18th century.
This rare and refined pair of sofas was made in Venice at the beginning of the 18th century, ...
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Antique Early 18th Century Italian Baroque Sofas
Materials
Wood
19th Century, French Louis XVI Style Wood Armchair
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19th century, French Louis XVI style wood armchair
This refined armchair was made in France, in Louis XVI style, in the early 19 century. Its wooden structure is carved with elem...
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Antique Early 19th Century French Louis XVI Armchairs
Materials
Wood
18th Century, Italian Painting Depicting Landscape with Watermill and Characters
Located in IT
18th century, Italian painting depicting landscape with watermill and characters
Oil on canvas; Measurements: frame cm L 103.5 x H 127 x P 5; painting L 93 x H 117.5
The painting...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Italian Rococo Paintings
Materials
Canvas
20th Century, Oriental Coromandel Lacquered Wood Screen
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20th century, Oriental coromandel lacquered wood screen
Measures: cm H 183,5 x W 40,5 a panel x D 2. Total W cm 162
Elegant four-panels screen ...
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Early 20th Century Asian Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood
19th Century, French Center Cabinet with Marble Top
Located in IT
19th century, French center cabinet with marble top
This central cabinet was made in France, during the Directoire period, between the late eighteenth and the beginning of the ninet...
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Antique Early 19th Century Directoire Cabinets
Materials
Marble, Bronze
19th Century, Six Italian Neoclassical Lacquered Wood Benches
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19th Century, six Italian neoclassical lacquered wood benches.
Measures: 4 stools: D 46.5 x W 46.5 x H 51 cm
2 benches: D 46.5 x W 82 x H 51 cm
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Antique Early 18th Century Italian Neoclassical Benches
Materials
Wood
17th Century, Italian Painting with Virgin and Child by Follower of Van Dyck
By Anthony van Dyck
Located in IT
17th century, Italian painting with virgin and childr by Follower of Sir Anthony van Dyck
cm W 90 x H 113; cornice cm W 111 x H 135 x D 7
The canvas depicts the Madonna with the Chi...
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Antique Late 17th Century Italian Baroque Paintings
Materials
Canvas
17th Century, Italian Painting with Saint Cecilia with Angels in Concert
Located in IT
17th century Roman school, Santa Cecilia with angels in concert, oil painting on canvas
The valuable painting, in excellent condition, depicts Sa...
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Antique 17th Century Italian Baroque Paintings
Materials
Canvas
17th Century, Italian Painting with Still Life with Fruit, Dogs and Cat
Located in IT
17th Century, Italian painting with still life with fruit, dogs and cat
Measurements: With frame cm W 93 x H 75.5 x D 4; Frame cm W 82.5 x H 66.5
The...
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Antique 17th Century Italian Baroque Paintings
Materials
Canvas
18th Century, Italian Oval Painting by Pietro D Ollivero with Historical Subject
Located in IT
Painting by Pietro Domenico Ollivero.
"Manio Annio Curio Dentato receives the ambassadors of the Samnites", around 1740
The work in question depicts the scene of and was made by the famous italian painter Pietro Domenico Ollivero. The oval canvas shows on the back the card of the Galleria Caretto in Turin (Italy) with the authentic 1965 Giorgio Caretto. The work was also published in "I Piaceri e le grazie" by Arabella Cifani and Franco Monetti in 1993.
The subject refers to the history of Rome and an episode narrated by the historian Valerio Massimo.
Manius Curius Dentatus (330 BC - 270 BC), one of the great Romans of the 3rd century B.C. was a consul in ancient Rome, known for ending the Samnite Wars. Elected consul in 290 BC. along with Publio Cornelio Rufino, in the same year he fought and won the Third War against the Samnites and their allies, thus ending a conflict that had lasted for 49 years. He definitively subdued the Sabines and the Greek army of Pyrrhus in the battle of Benevento. He represented the ideal prototype of ancient Roman for the generations that followed in that he avoided public honours; Cato the censor, who collected his sayings, placed him among the great figures of universal history. For centuries after his death (in 270 B.C. while overseeing the construction of the second aqueduct in Rome) his military exploits were recounted and his moral rectitude was praised as an example for all the Romans. Ollivero, in the cultured choice of the episode, illustrates the moment when Manio Curio Dentato is found in his home, characterized by Roman walls, sitting by the fire, on a rustic bench while eating his meal in a "ligneo catillo" (wooden basin...
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Antique 1740s Italian Baroque Paintings
Materials
Canvas
18th Century, Italian Neoclassical Lacquered and Gilt Wood Console Table
Located in IT
18th century, Italian neoclassical lacquered and gilt wood console table
This elegant console was made in Italy in the Neoclassical era, in the second half of the eighteenth cent...
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Antique Late 18th Century Italian Neoclassical Console Tables
Materials
Marble
XVI Century, Italian Renaissance Wood Chest
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XVI Century, Italian Renaissance wood chest.
This important noble chest of the Tuscan Renaissance was built towards the end of the sixteenth centur...
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Antique 16th Century Italian Renaissance Blanket Chests
Materials
Nutwood
XIX Century, Pair of Venetian Gilt Bronze Fireplace Chenets in Baroque Style
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XIX Century, Pair of Venetian gilt bronze fireplace Chenets in Baroque Style
This imposing pair of Fireplace Chenets in finely chiselled and gi...
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Antique Early 19th Century Italian Baroque Fireplace Tools and Chimney Pots
Materials
Bronze
18th Century Italian Neoclassical Wood Dresser Attributed to Francesco Bolgiè
By Francesco Bolgié
Located in IT
18th century Italian neoclassical carved, lacquered and gilded wood dresser attributed to Francesco Bolgiè (1752?-1834).
The fine and elegant commode is made of finely carved, lacquered and gilded wood. It presents several stylistic and material elements characteristic of the wooden works and of the furniture present in the Piedmont area, between the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century. The richness of the ornaments, the gold leaf, the iconographic program and the significant level of cabinet making that characterizes this furniture are testimony of a wealthy client and the valuable work of a sculptor at the service of noble and royal families. Stylistically can be attributed to the famous italian sculptor Francesco Bolgiè (1752-1834).
The front of the furniture and the two side are characterized by a complex decorative architecture. Two horizontal perimeter bands show gilded carved geometric patterns and palmettes on a blue lacquered backdrop. The low frame, in the centre and on the front, has a half-moon element inside which is finely carved a lion with two cupids and laurel branches. Near the corners, at the top, are carved a female faces, while at the bottom are some bees. The fretwork of the vertical bands draws strings that support a bunch of grapes with vine leaves. The side walls are lacquered in ochre yellow and, at the centre, a frame with acanthus leaves outlines a lacquered space in the tones of the ancient rose violaceous, with in the centre an ornate leaf with fine girali. On the four sides of this frame four large golden flowers harmonize the together.
The front, similar in composition, has a yellow ochre background, internal frame with palmettes and four flowers. The large internal space, lacquered in antique pink, shows in the center a woman’s fece with a composition of grapes and wheat ears; from the face depart fine phytomorphic girals with racemes, bunches of grapes and vine leaves. The nozzle of the original lock, placed on the front of the cabinet and on top, is in gilded bronze, chiselled with ribbon motif. The front panel opens downwards. The interior of the cabinet, entirely lacquered in red, has a shelf and therefore two compartments. The red color cinnabar deliberately recalls the characteristic Chinese lacquer, at the time much loved for the decorations to cineseria furniture. The special folding lock system, which allows the opening and closing of the front door, is the original one.
The commode rests on four conical wood legs witch are carved with acanthus leaves and small ramage, gilded and lacquered.
The top of the furniture is in grey marble bardiglio valdieri, lithotype that had great success in Piedmont, in the north of Italy, since the middle of the 18th century. On it were usually exposed bronzes, candlesticks, watches and sculptures.
The sculpted subjects refer to a precise iconographic programme.
The female head is identifiable in Ceres, Mother Terra, which in classical iconography is depicted with the head surrounded by a sert of wheat ears and a cluster of grapes. Ceres or Demeter in Greek, sister of Zeus, in Greek mythology is the goddess of fertility, the guardian of crops, protector of agriculture and wheat, constant nurse of youth and of the green earth, author of the cycle of seasons, life and death, protector of marriage and sacred laws.
The representation of Ceres, and its meaning, are linked to bees, symbol of virtue and chastity, allegory of Mother Earth, rebirth, mercy and justice. Just as the leaves of the vine and its fruits: in many cultures, from Greco-Roman to Christianity, the vine is a symbol of well-being, fruitfulness and blessing; it represents an abundant life and the joy that flows from it; it reflects the desire for fertility and beauty. It is also a sign of devotion to the fruits of the spirit and protection from evil. Fullness, wisdom, youth, maturation, prosperity are all images associated with the vine. Sacrifice, faith and good will are the qualities required for the vine to bear fruit.
The inverted bezel shows the iconographic image of Amor Vincit...
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Antique Late 18th Century Italian Neoclassical Dressers
Materials
Giltwood, Wood
18th Century, Four Italian Large Lacquered Giltwood Armchairs
Located in IT
18th century, four Italian large lacquered giltwood armchairs
These refined four armchairs were made in the first half of the 18th century in centr...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Italian Rococo Armchairs
Materials
Wood
19th Century, France Inlaid Wood Centre Table
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19th Century, France inlaid wood centre table
This elegant centre table in inlaid wood was made in France in the early 19th century.
The rectangular top has shaped and wavy side...
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Antique Early 19th Century French Restauration Center Tables
Materials
Bronze
18th Century, Two French Louis XVI Veneered Wood Center Tables or Night Stands
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Two Louis XVI center tables in veneered wood, marble top and gilded bronze finishes, France, second half of the 18th century
Measurements: left side table: cm L 49 x P 35 x H 65; ...
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Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Center Tables
Materials
Bronze
18th Century, Venetian Baroque Carved Giltwood Mirror
Located in IT
18th Century, Venetian Baroque Carved Giltwood mirror
This mirror was made in Venice, Italy, in the second half of the 18th century. The frame, in carved and gilded wood, has the characteristics of the Venetian baroque.
The internal wooden band, with 90-degree angles in the lower portion and with a cambered and curvilinear profile in the upper part, is carved in vegetable-shaped bas-reliefs. At the top a rich cymatium encloses another mirror. Rich perforated volutes, rocaille and phytomorphic elements, create movement to the whole and streamline the mirror making it graceful. To crown, there is a floral element. Also, below the frame includes a small mirror, while on the sides continue the friezes carved with flowers, leaves and scrolls rocaille.
This small mirror, very refined and of great decorative effect, can be easily placed in different environments, placed over consoles or antique drawers...
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Antique 18th Century Italian Baroque Wall Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Giltwood
19th Century, Pair of French Gilt Bronze Fireplace Chenets
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19th Century, pair of French gilt bronze fireplace chenets.
This valuable pair of Fireplace Chenets was made in France in the early ninetee...
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Antique Early 19th Century French Louis XVI Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Bronze
18th Century, Pair of Italian Rococò Carved Giltwood Benches
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18th Century, pair of Italian Rococo carved giltwood benches.
This elegant pair of two-seater benches was built in the second half of the 18th century in Rome, Italy. The structure, in richly carved and gilded wood, has the characteristics of the Baroque period.
The band under the seat has a mixed profile and is carved with rocaille motifs and rich floral decoration in relief in the central part. The four legs, curved and moved, have on the uprights the same carvings and in the terminal part of the foot emerges a scroll. The rear uprights, carved with curled end, are higher than the seat, in order to slender the image of the benches vertically.
The seat is lined with velvet from a later period.
These benches can be exhibited in pairs or individually in entrances or corridors, in living rooms and studios or in a room at the foot of the bed. They can also be placed below large paintings. Very decorative, bright and graceful, they are suitable both in contexts characterized by antique and modern furniture.
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Antique Mid-18th Century Italian Rococo Benches
Materials
Giltwood
18th Century, French Louis XVI Wood Sideboard by Conrad Mauter
By Conrad Mauter
Located in IT
18th Century, French Louis XVI Wood sideboard by Conrad Mauter
Measurements: H cm 134 x W 90 x D 38; marble top cm W 94.5, x D 42 x thickness cm 2.5
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Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XIV Bookcases
Materials
Wood, Rosewood
18th Century, Italian Neoclassical Gilded and Red Lacquered Wood with Marble Top
Located in IT
18th Century, Italian neoclassical gilded and red lacquered wood with marble top
Piedmont, Italy, second half of the 18th century.
This fine piedmontese console table (northern Italy) is made of hand carved wood, richly gilded with red lacquered background. It have a marble top presumably of the Pyrenees.
The refined console is a rare object for the coloring in red lacquer, quite unusual.
On the front a large drawer has comfortable carved and gilded knobs and decorative gilded carvings with a geometric pattern reserve on the lower part and a central medallion with male head placed in profile inside a round, with a big bow on the top.
The neoclassical object...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Italian Neoclassical Console Tables
Materials
Marble
19th Century, Italian Polychrome Paper Painted Centerpiece
Located in IT
This centerpiece, or surtout de table, was made in the Tuscany, Italy, in neoclassical era at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
The top, under glass, has a fine painting on p...
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Antique 19th Century Italian Napoleon III Centerpieces
Materials
Paper
Italian Coffee Table with 18th Century Marble Top and Carved Giltwood Base
Located in IT
Italian coffee table with 18th century marble top and carved giltwood base.
Measurements: cm W 91 x D 49 x H 52, top thickness 4 cm.
This coffee table, from the center, was made in I...
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Early 20th Century Italian Louis XIV Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Marble
20th Century, Italian Bronze Planter or Gueridon
Located in IT
20th century, Italian bronze planter or Gueridon
Measures: cm W 56 x maximum diameter 51 x H 90. H on the floor of the wide 81 cm
This refined planter was made in Italy, in Naples, towards the Early 20th Century in the style of «Retour d'Egypte».
It consists of a tripod structure in finely chiselled gilded bronze and lacquered in tones. Each leg originates with scroll decorations and phytomorphic elements with golden details, supported by a sphinx with hairstyle, tail and golden wings. This sits on a curvilinear and wavy element decorated with golden ramage and a man’s head with a long beard of classic taste. The legs end with an injured foot and rest on a tripartite base that connects them. In the middle of each leg there is a bronze junction with curls and volutes that converges towards the others in the center, where a vertical element contributes to the momentum and gracefulness of the whole.
The basin of the planter is in lacquered tin, with gold edges and reserves. The rising part of the tub has some holes that allow the breathability of the space.
This tripod is inspired, with variations, to a famous model of the brothers Luigi and Antonio Manfredini, active in Milan at the beginning of the nineteenth century, financed by the viceroy of Italy Eugenio de Beauharnais, adopted son of Napoleon Bonaparte, for the opening of the real manufacture of Eugenia.
The Retour d'Egypte style was widely echoed in France and Europe and originated from General Bonaparte’s military campaign in Egypt in 1799. The fashion of the Egyptians had already in Italy found a previous interpreter in the engraver Giovan Battista Piranesi, but the vast diffusion that also had in the furniture the Egyptian ornament...
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Early 20th Century Italian Louis XVI Gueridon
Materials
Metal, Bronze
18th Century, Louis XIV Carved Walnut Wood Drop-Leaf Cabinet
Located in IT
This elegant drop-leaf cabinet was made in the early eighteenth century in walnut wood finely carved with rocaille motifs. It has a particular patina of the carvings, slightly darker...
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Antique Early 18th Century European Louis XIV Secretaires
Materials
Bronze
20th Century, Venetian Baroque Stile Carved and Laquered Giltwood Bench
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20th Century, Venetian Baroque style carved and laquered giltwood bench.
This small center bench was made in the Venetian baroque style around the early twentieth century. The struc...
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Early 20th Century Italian Baroque Benches
Materials
Wood, Giltwood
19th Century, Pair of French Gitl Bronze Appliques
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19th Century, Pair of French Gitl Bronze Appliques
This particular pair of appliques, in chiseled and gilded bronze, dates back to the first half of the nineteenth century. Made ...
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Antique Early 19th Century French Empire Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Bronze
XX century, Pair of Italian Oil Paintings with Chinoiserie Landscapes
Located in IT
XX century, Pair of Italian Oil Paintings with Chinoiserie Landscapes
Provenance: Pietro Accorsi collection, Turin (Italy)
This delightful pair ...
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Early 20th Century Italian Chinoiserie Paintings
Materials
Canvas
18th Century, Large Italian Louis XV Carved Giltwood Armchair
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18th Century, Italian Louis XV Carved Giltwood Armchair
Measurements: cm H 108 x W 73 x D 77, seat H 46 x D 51 x W 61
The splendid large armchair, in finely carved and gilded wood, was made in Genoa, in the Louis XV period, mid-18th century. The pentagonal back has a wavy and curvilinear profile, and is decorated with carvings with phytomorphic and rocaille elements. The armrests, slightly moved and decorated with carved leaves, end with a volute and from this fit the seat. The band under sitting is moved and decorated with rocaille elements, as well as the legs, arched, and curly feet. On the back, a repainting of the ochre tint was done. The back and seat are padded and lined in red velvet with fine ochre and grey decorations.
The type of carving accords refinement and gracefulness to the armchair. The shaped backrest, the wavy armrests and the curved legs give elegance and charm to this seat, easily inserted in any furnishing context, both marked by modern and antique taste...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Italian Louis XV Armchairs
Materials
Giltwood
18th Century, Italian Policrome Lacquered Wood Chest of Drawers
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18th century, Italian Policrome Lacquered Wood Chest of Drawers
This small and elegant chest of drawers was made in Genoa, northern Italy, around the middle of the eighteenth century. This model of dresser is inspired by the models that spread in France in the Louis XV period and to which all the cabinet makers were immediately inspired. It consists of four drawers, of which two smaller upper. It has a wooden structure entirely lacquered in light ocre decorated with floral and foliate decorations and compositions of still life of fruit in shades of red. The handles and mouthpieces of the locks are in finely chiseled burnished bronze, typical of the Louis XV era. The molded top is in Rosso Francia marble, a marble from abroad that at the time was very precious and expensive. The dresser has the front and the sides moved by the move line, legs thin and slightly curved. The front legs are embellished with burnished bronze chiseled tips shaped like acanthus leaf.
This piece of furniture is quite rare because of its small size that make it easy to fit into any environment. Very decorative due to its sinuous lines and its fine decoration, it is suitable both next to antique furniture...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Italian Rococo Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Marble, Bronze
18th Century, Italian Baroque Carved and Giltwood Mirror
Located in IT
18th century, Italian baroque carved and giltwood mirror
This refined mirror was made in Venice, Italy, in the eighteenth century and has the characteristic decoration of the Ven...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Italian Baroque Wall Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Wood, Giltwood
19th Century, French Wood and Gilt Bronze Centre Table
Located in IT
19Th Century, French Wood and Gilt Bronze Centre Table
Measures: cm L 69 x P 41 x H 73. The legs have a max width of cm 48.5 x P 39
The center...
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Antique Early 19th Century French Louis XVI Center Tables
Materials
Bronze
18th Century, Italian Louis XIV Lacquered and Giltwood Console
Located in IT
18th century, Italian Louis XIV Lacquered and giltwood console
Measurements: cm W max 107 (W front 100) x D 56 x H 73
This elegant baroque console was made in the early 18th century, in the Louis XIV era. Said "a ¾" has particular dimensions, as it is slightly lower than traditional consoles...
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Antique Early 18th Century Italian Louis XIV Console Tables
Materials
Wood
18th Century Pair of Italian Louis XV Carved Giltwood Armchairs
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18th century pair of Italian Louis XV carved Giltwood armchairs
The elegant pair of armchairs was made in Turin, Italy, around the middle of the eighteenth century, Louis XV.
Ea...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Louis XV Armchairs
Materials
Giltwood
18th Century, Pair of Venetian Louis XV Carved and Gilt Wood Mirrors
Located in IT
Second half of 18th century, pair of Venetian Louis XV carved and gilt wood mirrors
This fine pair of mirrors was made in Baroque Era in Venice in the second half of the 18th cent...
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Antique 18th Century Italian Louis XV Wall Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Giltwood, Wood
19th Century, Pair of French Lacquered and Giltwood Armchairs
Located in IT
19th century, pair of French lacquered and giltwood armchairs
Measurements: cm H 98 x W 62 x D 65, seat H 44 cm
This delightful pair of armchairs, in lacquered and gilded wood, ...
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Antique Early 19th Century French Louis XVI Bergere Chairs
Materials
Wood, Giltwood
19th Century, Pair of Italian Giltwood Armchairs
Located in IT
19th century, pair of Italian giltwood armchairs
The refined pair of armchairs was made at the beginning of the 19th century in Venice (It...
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Antique Early 19th Century Italian Louis XV Armchairs
Materials
Wood
18th Century, Painting with Still Life by Maximilian Pfeiler
Located in IT
Maximilian Pfeiler (active Rome, circa 1694-circa 1721 Budapest)
Still life with peaches, grapes, figs and pomegranate
Oil on canvas, Measures: cm H 63,5 x W 47. With frame cm ...
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Antique Early 18th Century Italian Baroque Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
19th Century, Pair of French Gilt Bronze Candlesticks, Louis XV Style
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19th century, Pair of French Gilt Bronze Candlesticks, Louis XV style
This pair of small candlesticks was made of gilded bronze in France in the 19th century, inspired by the Loui...
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Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Candlesticks
Materials
Bronze
19th Century, French Chiselled and Gilt Bronze Table Clock
Located in IT
19th century, French chiselled and gilt bronze table clock
This table clock was made of chiselled and gilded bronze in the early 19th centur...
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Antique Early 19th Century French Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Bronze
18th Century, Italian Pair of Gilt Wood Louis XV Stools
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18th Century, Italian Pair of Gilt Wood Louis XV Stools
This fine pair of stools was made in Naples, Italy, around the middle of the eighteenth century, in the Louis XV era.
Each st...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Italian Louis XV Stools
Materials
Wood
18th Century, French Wood Centre Desk
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18th century, French wood centre desk
Measurements: cm W 95 x D 63,5 x H 71,5 (maximum leg H 57,5)
The elegant centre desk was built in northern France...
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Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Center Tables
Materials
Wood, Satinwood
18th Century, Italian painting with Sacred Heart of the Child Jesus by Pietro Ba
By Pietro Bardellino
Located in IT
Pietro Bardellino (Italy - Naples, 1732 - 1806), attr., Sacred Heart of the Child Jesus
Measurements: with frame, cm L 86 x H 99 x P 8; only the canvas, cm L 78 x H 64
The painting, made in oil on canvas, represents the Sacred Heart of the Child Jesus. Stylistically the work is attributable to Pietro Bardellino (Italy, Naples, 1732 - Naples, 1806), a pupil of Francesco De Mura and considered by critics one of the most gifted and sensitive exponents of the Rococo style in Naples.
The canvas represents the Child Jesus, surrounded by flowers in an outdoor setting, while showing the sacred heart. The canvas has a well-balanced color and a strong sweetness of the child’s traits, which with the complicit gesture of the right hand, involves the viewer in the intimate and delicate sharing of the garden in which he sits. The roses, in addition to being a beautiful piece of still life, contribute to enrich the Christological message, being bearers of symbolic meanings. Marian attributes par excellence, are often side by side with Christ, whose thorns foreshadow the Passion. In the canvas, on the top left, two cherubim are observed: among them, according to the Old Testament, is God: the author therefore puts into place an iconographic and iconological hyperbole that amplifies its meaning. The iconographic theme of the Child Jesus with the Sacred Heart in his hand spread between the second half of the eighteenth century and the first of the following century. With the worship of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Catholic Church intends to honour the Heart of Jesus Christ, one of the organs symbolizing his humanity, which by intimate union with the Divinity, has the right to worship and love of the Saviour for men, of which His Heart is the symbol. It represents one of the fundamental devotions of Christian life, as it manifests the true face of God, who is prodigal and boundless love. It was the French mystic Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Italian Baroque Paintings
Materials
Canvas
18th Century, Italian painting Depicts Bambocciata by Giovanni Michele Graneri
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Giovanni Michele Graneri (Italy, Turin 1708-1762)
Bambocciata (Farmers dancing in front of the inn)
The painting, made in oil on canvas, depicts a moment of celebration where some p...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Italian Baroque Paintings
Materials
Canvas
18th Century, Italian Neoclassical Carved and Lacquered Wood Coffee Table
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18th century, Italian neoclassical carved and lacquered wood coffee table
Elegant and refined coffee table, made in Tuscany (Italy) in the neoclassical era, circa end of the 18th ...
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Antique Late 18th Century European Neoclassical Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Wood, Giltwood
17th Century, Italian Hand Carved Walnut Cupboard
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17th century, Italian hand carved walnut cupboard
The cupboard, in good condition, is made of solid walnut wood decorated with carvings geometric design characteristic of the tast...
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Antique Early 17th Century European Baroque Cupboards
Materials
Walnut
19th Century, French Louis XV Style, Lacquered Wood Desk
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19th century, French Louis XV style, lacquered wood desk
This elegant lacquered wooden desk was made in France between the end of the 19th centu...
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Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
19th Century, Pair of French Gilt Bronze and Marble Candelabra
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19th century, pair of French gilt bronze and marble candelabra
The pair of three-light candelabra was made in the 19th century in France in the Louis XVI style.
Each candelabra c...
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Antique Early 19th Century French Louis XVI Table Lamps
Materials
Marble, Bronze
18th Century Italian Oil on Canvas Painting with Battle by Antonio Calza
By Antonio Calza
Located in IT
Antonio Calza (Italy, Verona, 1653-18th April 1725)
"Battle between Christian and Turkish cavalry with castle"
The painting depicts a bloody battle between Christian and Turkish cavalry. Characterized by dynamism, intensity of color and light, the main scene occupies the lower horizontal section of the canvas, optically interrupted by the black fumes of the shots from which emerge, on the left, the towers of a fortress. On the right, in the distance you can see the combat in progress in the countryside, beyond which you can see the pale presence of hills that create a fifth, marking the horizon. To frame the scene contributes to the left, against light and in the foreground, a portion of the wall. The painter, however, introduces a horse on the ground, of which we see only the back, a ruse to involve the observer making him become active and participate in the scene. In the foreground, lifeless bodies, wounded horses and, scattered on the ground, weapons and a drum enhance the drama of the clash.
The excitement and expressive force, the intense chromatic range attentive to the conditions of light and the fine brushstrokes, decisive and dramatic, suggests the attribution to Antonio Calza, one of the most important painters of battles of the seventeenth century, excellent student and continuator of the greatest interpreter of the genre, Jacques Courtois called il Borgognone (Saint-Hyppolite 1621 - Rome 1676). Il Borgognone, although not having had a real school or direct students, places itself as a primary reference point by the Italian and foreign "battaglisti".
The genre of battle painting found great success in the collections of the Italian and European nobility of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The battles of the Italian Renaissance, in which the scene converged towards a precise protagonist, evolve towards a type of combat "without hero". The bloody realism of the details and the dynamic development of the narrative confuse the figure of the protagonist, when present, to give importance to the swirl of horses and armed fighters, among which, moreover, does not emerge a winner.
The certain documents relating to the life and movements of Antonio Calza are scarce; it was equally difficult to reconstruct, from the critics, a catalogue of autograph works. Through paintings in private collections, in museums and paintings passed on the antiques market it has been possible to identify a copious corpus of works that can be traced back to his hand. The work of art historians, together with that of antique dealers, in conferring proper attributions in order to best outline the figure of Calza, continues but studies are still in progress. In this sense, the work of Giancarlo Sestieri should certainly be noted, who investigated the artistic production of the battaglisti and Calza, thus allowing the comparison of the numerous photographic works reported, to identify and recognize the stylistic qualities that distinguish the corpus of paintings assigned to him today.
Antonio Calza was born in 1653 in Italy, in Verona and in 1664 he entered the school of Carlo Cignani in Bologna, dedicating himself to painting battles and landscapes. He then perfected in Rome, where he knew the works of the then undisputed head of the sector, Jacques Courtois called the Burgundian. In 1675 he returned to Verona and married an 88-year-old widow who, dying, left him a rich inheritance. Much appreciated by the nobility and the bourgeoisie, he received numerous commissions. Bartolomeo Dal Pozzo (Le Vite de' pittori, de gli scultori et architetti veronesi, 1718) praises "three great paintings of battles...
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Antique Late 17th Century Italian Baroque Paintings
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Antique Late 17th Century Italian Baroque Paintings
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These consoles are very elegant and refined for the simplicity of their line and color. Consoles with two shelves are also quite rare. These allow greater flexibility in their use: in fact, in the lower shelf it is possible to expose, for example, vases with flowers, porcelain, books or other decorative objects in addition to what is placed above or offend the ability to lighten the top floor from too many objects.
For their small size and especially for the particular depth of the floors, very narrow, and for the distinctly decorative character, these consoles are easily inserted in any environment. They are in fact perfect in the entrances or in the corridors, in a living room or a study, exposed in pairs or individually. The light color also makes them pleasant next to antique and modern furniture.
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Antique Late 18th Century Italian Neoclassical Console Tables
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17th century, Italian oil on canvas painting with battle between Christian and Turkish cavalry
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Antique Mid-17th Century European Baroque Paintings
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Antique Mid-18th Century Italian Baroque Console Tables
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Antique Late 17th Century Italian Baroque Paintings
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