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19th Century Italian Neoclassical Mirror Ivory and Giltwood Overmantel
Located in Milano, MI
Italian antique ivory color painted and giltwood fireplace mirror, dating back to the mid-19th century. This elegant Neoclassical overmantel mirror...
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Antique Mid-19th Century Italian Neoclassical Mantel Mirrors and Firepla...
Materials
Wood
Vaso con Piatto in Cristallo Decoro Blu e Oro Austroungarico Inizio 1800
Located in Milano, MI
Elegant decagonal shaped crystal lidded vase, dish plate dating back to Directoire period, finely decorated by elaborate floral and geometrical gilded, white and blue enameled patter...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Austrian Directoire Jars
Materials
Crystal
17th Century Italian Ballot Voting Urn Carved Blue and Red Painted Wood
Located in Milano, MI
Antique Italian ballot urn shaped wooden box, carved and painted, coming from Tuscany, Monte San Savino near Arezzo in Central Italy. This ballot urn is an excellent example of a 17th century wooden voting box...
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Antique Mid-17th Century Italian Baroque Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pine
French Mid-19th Century Lacquered Oak Reliquary Box
Located in Milano, MI
French 19th century lacquered rectangular shaped reliquary box, realized in oak, decorated with a dark brown/grey lacquering and a white scrolling and pa...
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Antique Mid-19th Century French Decorative Boxes
Materials
Oak
18th Century Italian Baroque Gilded Ewer Repoussé Copper Liturgical Pitcher
Located in Milano, MI
A stunning Italian gilt copper ewer dating back to 18th century with a circular body featuring a quadripartite decoration defined by the repoussé of a double vertical ribbed frame that frames tableaux decorated with floral scrolls; the background of these sections is finely dotted by chisel tool to underline a very pleasant relief to the embossed parts thanks to the burnishing.
An excellent and unique hand-made pitcher, selected in a private collection of Northern Italy.
This rare golden jug was created to serve wine during the Eucharistic celebration, the Christian liturgical practice. it is an Italian work of art that dates back to 1700, with a wonderful fire gilding, for collectors. In good age related condition regardless of a small dent in the middle part of the body, consistent with the eighteenth-century dating.
The cast handle takes up the motif of the volutes present on the body of the ewer. The spout is closed by a hinged lid with a small floral knob, with minimal deformations near the hinge compromising its perfect closure.
In the upper part, there are welding signs...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Italian Baroque Pitchers
Materials
Copper
Italian Repoussé Silvered Sconce Urn Vase Wall-Light 20th Century Baroque Style
Located in Milano, MI
A 20th century handmade Italian wall-light realized with a silvered copper plate finely embossed with scrolling, geometrical and vegetal motifs,...
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Late 20th Century Italian Baroque Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Copper
19th Century Italian Handmade Tuscan Siena Yellow Food Storage Box for Beans
Located in Milano, MI
An Italian 19th century lidded beechwood box, an antique food storage container suitable for dried legumes, as per the Italian inscription FAVE GRECHE, meaning Greek Beans, a common ...
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Antique Mid-19th Century Italian Country Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
African Ethiopian Tribal Folk Art Painting 20th Century Battle Scene on Canvas
Located in Milano, MI
African Ethiopian painting imported to Italy by a diplomat during the Italian occupation of Ethiopia, in the late 1930s. This tribal folk art painting depicts a battle scene and the canvas is mounted on a parallelogram-shaped frame.
It is a large battle painting...
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Mid-20th Century Ethiopian Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Canvas
African Ethiopian Tribal Folk Art Painting 20th Century
Located in Milano, MI
Ancient Ethiopian painting imported to Italy by a diplomat during the Italian occupation of Ethiopia, in the late 1930s. This genre scene painting is divided into eighteen squares bordered by a black frame and divided into three lines. The scene depicts the story of a couple with three children through the stories of their domestic life and their rural activity; each box has a caption written in the Amharic language. In the first line: they grind; they drink; …illegible… while they spin; they bring water.
In the second line: comb, cut your hair; treats your teeth; grind; they bring the wood; they bring water.
In the third section: they prepare beer; they prepare bread; they cook bread; they prepare lunch; while they eat; while they drink. This canvas is painted in shades of ocher and is mounteed on a ebonized frame. Dates back to the late 1930s. The canvas show minimal tears and signs of wear but we can customize a restoration.
The human figures are characterized by unrealistic proportions of the head and body and depicted in static positions. This sense of fixity and the narration in successive chapters in domestic environments make the paintings easily intelligible and suggestive.
A particularly fascinating aspect of Ethiopian art...
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Mid-20th Century Ethiopian Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Art Nouveau Italian Pair of Wall Brackets with Children Busts and Flowers 1920
Located in Milano, MI
Pair of 20th century Art Nouveau Italian wall brackets, two hand-modeled, hand painted ceramic brackets with a fine polychrome decoration with half-bust girl and boy figures and flowers.
They are a Northern Italy manufacture, unmarked, dating back to the early 20th century in good condition, with minor chips consistent with age and use.
A very charming pair of Italian ceramic brackets showing, in the lower part an unusual flower composition surmounted by two half-bust figures, girl and boy with a fine polychrome decoration.
Ready to be hanged, this pair of antique wall brackets...
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Early 20th Century Italian Art Nouveau Wall Brackets
Materials
Ceramic
Set of Four Italian Glass Grape Sconces with Wrought Iron Brackets 1960s
Located in Milano, MI
A set of four glass grape cluster wall lights, four colored glass bunches, green, rose, blue and lime yellow sconces, Italian wine theme wall lamps with ...
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Mid-20th Century European Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Wrought Iron
19th Century White Marble Italian Lawyer Portrait Relief
Located in Milano, MI
An oval Italian Carrara marble relief plaque, a 19th century hand-carved marble manly portrait, depicting the lawyer Francesco Rossignoli presiden...
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Antique Late 19th Century Italian Busts
Materials
Carrara Marble
18th Century Italian Fratino Table with Lyre Legs Solid Walnut Rectangular Table
Located in Milano, MI
An Italian Renaissance style walnut Fratino table from the 18th century from a private house of Milan.
Born in Italy during the first half of 18th century, this exquisite solid waln...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Italian Renaissance Center Tables
Materials
Walnut
20th Century Italian Tuscan Vase Basket with Fishes Shells
Located in Milano, MI
Decorated and perforated ceramic basket realized with a circular vase with polychrome geometric decorations on the body and a relief decoration on the edge handmade by multiple shells and small fishes, as well as on the handle.
Two ornamental shell-shaped spouts on the larger edge.
In good age related condition, with signs of use, small breaks of some fish tails and minor chips on the edge of the vase. Handmade and hand painted in Italy, Tuscan origin, mid-20th century.
A perfect Italian artwork...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Arts and Crafts Decorative Baskets
Materials
Ceramic
20th Century Italian Still Life of Flowers in Blue Vase by Marini Giovanni
Located in Milano, MI
A flowers painting an Italian polychrome shiny colors flower composition, a 20th century Italian still-life of flowers, oil painted on wooden panel, signed lower left G.MARINI, a dah...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Paintings
Materials
Beech
19th Century Italian Neoclassical Silver and Crystal Compote with Cover
By Cristoforo Corbella
Located in Milano, MI
From Milan a 19th century Italian silver and crystal compote bowl in good condition from a private collection. This antique Neoclassical covered compote bowl has a very fine hand-chased vegetal decoration and engraving, a lovely cast engraved silver 800/000 finial and shows silver-maker’s mark for Cristoforo Corbella active in the first half of 19th century in Milan, contrada degli Orefici 3194.
This antique silver compote of supreme craftsmanship stands on a three-lobed pedestal base with B L monogram engraved in the central part, features tripod legs decorated with neoclassical motifs, scrolls, flowers, rosettes supporting a circular upper ring adorned with elegant acanthus leafed piercing.
Engraved crystal cup and a cover finely engraved with geometrical and vegetal pattern, surmounted by a cast gem finial.
The following marks can be seen on the bottom of the foot and the upper edge of the compote, (the original descriptions are reported, as they appear on the documents of the State Archive of Milan):
1) “Forma eptagona. Globo col Zodiaco ed i setti (sic) Trioni” Heptagon form. Globe with the Zodiac and the seven Trioni (seven stars of the Ursa Major) Mark of the Guarantee Office in use in the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy from 1812 for works with a title of 800 thousandths.
2) "Aratro" Plow Mark of the Guarantee Office in use in the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy from 1812.
3) "insegna della Luna Piena...
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Antique Mid-19th Century Italian Neoclassical Sterling Silver
Materials
Crystal, Silver
Italian 19th Century Braided Straw Box from a Monastery in Umbria Region
Located in Milano, MI
An Italian straw work box decorated everywhere with extraordinary straw-work geometrical marquetry on a wooden structure, coated even inside and at the bottom.
This Italian box, has a rectangular shape, hand-realized in an antique abbey...
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Antique Mid-19th Century Italian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Iron
20th Century Empire Style Ceiling Light Italian Banci Firenze White Flush Mount
By Banci Firenze
Located in Milano, MI
Italian 1980s ceiling light by Banci Firenze, an Empire style circular brass and ivory color painted ceiling fixture, decorated with six cast brass...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Empire Flush Mount
Materials
Brass
Italian Wrought Iron Chandelier Flower Bulb Structure with Ostrich Eggshell
Located in Milano, MI
Early 20th century Italian iron two-tier ten-light chandelier, in good condition, restored and rewired. Of Italian origin, handcrafted, this is a unique work of art coming from a Milanese private palazzo.
Unusual structure with ten curved scrolling arms on two tiers, decorated with iron spiral patterns and lapislazzuli and ivory color painted metal sheet balls.
A long shaped iron stem ending in the lower part with a flower bulb...
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Early 20th Century Italian Rustic Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Metal, Wrought Iron
French Art Deco Ceramic Pekingese Dog Sculpture by Louis Fontinelle
By Louis Fontinelle
Located in Milano, MI
A Louis Fontinelle ceramic Art Deco Pekingese dog figure, in cream colored crackle glazed earthenware, depicting a Pekingese dog sitting on its hind legs,...
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Early 20th Century French Art Deco Animal Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
18th Century Italian Majolica Faience Centerpiece Large Lodi Circular Bowl
Located in Milano, MI
18th century Italian collectible antique painted majolica bowl, a large basin-shaped centerpiece, with vertical ribs, decorated with polychrome flowers. Small chips, felure and minor...
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Antique Mid-18th Century Italian Rococo Decorative Bowls
Materials
Maiolica
Jesus Christ Head Relief Italian Vintage Wall Decoration Panel
Located in Milano, MI
A vintage deeply carved Cembran pinewood Christ Head bas-relief, a religious wall hanging panel depicting a Christ head wearing thorns and holding cross. O...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Decorative Art
Materials
Wood
18th Century Philip James Loutherbourg Portrait English Miniature Paper Etching
Located in Milano, MI
18th century Philip James de Loutherbourg Portrait English school miniature etching on paper, of oval shape, set in a black and gold decoration frame...
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Antique Late 18th Century English Prints
Materials
Paper
18th Century Italian St Joseph with Infant Jesus Baroque Old Master Sculpture
By Angelo Gabriello Piò
Located in Milano, MI
From Italy a superlative Bolognese Baroque polychrome earthenware Saint Joseph with Infant Jesus sculpture, circle of old master Angelo Gabriello Piò, Bol...
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Antique Early 18th Century Italian Baroque Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Pair of Italian White and Mecca Giltwood Hand Carved Lamp Bases Verona, 1980
Located in Milano, MI
From Verona Italy, a pair of late 20th century hand carved mecca finish and ivory painted bases, suitable to make beautiful bedside table lamps, see the holes suitable for wiring in ...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Neoclassical Table Lamps
Materials
Pine
Italian 18th Century Gilt Bronze Reliefs Christ and Virgin Mary after Girardon
Located in Milano, MI
Pair of Gilt bronze reliefs of early 18th century, after François Girardon (1628-1715) The original model for these two profiles of the Virgin and Christ dates from 1691. These works...
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Antique Early 18th Century Italian Louis XIV Religious Items
Materials
Bronze
19th Century French Fire Gilt Bronze Crystal Twelve-Branch Floral Chandelier
Located in Milano, MI
Exceptional fire gilt bronze and crystal chandelier of French origin, a two tier twelve-light hanging fixture dating back to circa 1870 born for candle burning, modified to electric,...
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Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Crystal, Ormolu, Bronze
Pair of 19th Century German Gnomes Hand Carved Bone Gnome Figures
Located in Milano, MI
Lovely pair of cheerful gnome figurines carved bone gnomes of German origin dating back to the second half of the 19th century.
On a carved bone rocky pedestal, a standing smiling gnome holds a mug with a lid in one hand and a bunch of keys in the other; the other gnome figure with slippers seated on the rocks, fixed to the base with a metal pin.
In good age related condition, these two antique...
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Antique Mid-19th Century German Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bone
20th Century Italian Silver Plate Circular Torchère as Floor-Lamp
Located in Milano, MI
Late 20th century Italian floor-lamp realized with circular silver plate brass elements and standing on three lion's feet, in the manner of antique style torchères.
This floor lamp has no wiring, dates back to 1970 circa and is in good condition with a lovely patina due to oxidation of silvered brass and minor small dents consistent with use.
It comes from a private house of Milan.
Maximum height x diameter of the base: 122 cm x 29 cm.
The pink lampshade...
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Late 20th Century Italian Floor Lamps
Materials
Brass
Goddess Circe Italian Neoclassical Sculpture Carved Wood Ebony and Gold 1800s
Located in Milano, IT
Circe 19th-century Italian Wooden Sculpture, the proposed neoclassical figure is a fascinating and rare depiction of the Goddess Circe, made in the early 1800s. The pine wood carving...
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Early 19th Century Italian School Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Art Deco Tragic Mask in Silver-plated Ceramic by Guido Cacciapuoti 1930s
Located in Milano, IT
Cacciapuoti Tragic Mask, Art Dèco figurative sculpture by Neapolitan artist Guido Cacciapuoti (Naples 1892- Milan 1953) depicting a tragic mask, made of ceramic, hand-molded and sil...
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1930s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Female Life-size Mannequin Italian Articulated Sculpture In Beech Mid 1800s
Located in Milano, IT
Female Painter's Manikin Mid-1800s jointed and articulated, life-size Italian sculpture, 167 cm tall 66 Inches, made of beech wood with traces of lacquer preparation. This extraordi...
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Mid-19th Century Italian School Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Pair Of Terracotta Children Italian Romantic Busts Late 1800s
Located in Milano, IT
Pair of Fragments Of Late 1800s Romantic Sculptures, Pair of Terracotta Busts of Children probably part of a fountain, of a larger sculptural group. These are busts of a child with ...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Medardo Rosso Gavroche or Mischievous Impressionist Bust in Bronze 20th Century
By Medardo Rosso
Located in Milano, IT
Medardo Rosso The Mischief or Gavroche Impressionist sculpture depicting a laughing little boy, the figure half-length of the laughing boy in the cap and the face turned to the lef...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Portrait Of Dominican Father 1860 Tuscan School Painting by Luigi Mussini
By Luigi Mussini
Located in Milano, IT
Luigi Mussini Portrait Of Dominican Father 1860 taken frontally, half-length, with dark green background. Dressed in a buttoned smock and a white cassock rendered with a masterful b...
Category
Mid-19th Century Italian School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
