19th Century Pair of Vases Porcelain Austrian Workshop

19th century Pair of desks with portraits of Petrarch and Leonardo (2) Alabaster, 34 and 35 cm diam The pair of alabaster discs features a central cameo with the effigy of Petrarch and Leonardo, probably part of a larger series that featured illustrious characters from Italian history. On the openwork frame of Petrarch there are portraits of some characters who face each other, combined for centuries, as can be seen from the shapes of the garments that span several centuries: from the thirteenth century, in which men wear long-tipped bonnets, to the fifteenth century and Sixteenth century, the two characters at the top, in the seventeenth century, with wide collars, up to the eighteenth century. Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374) embodies the figure of the humanist intellectual par excellence, entirely dedicated to the study of Latin conceived as the only form of expression worthy of a man of letters, so as to serve any form of written communication, including letters and the reflection on himself witnessed in the Secretum. A personality made more complex by obsessive perfectionism, which led him to a continuous and infinite editing of the work which he also flaunted to consider as minor and which instead ensured him an undying fame among posterity, the Canzoniere. But the only aspect fixed in the collective imagination is that of the lover who idolizes the places where his ideal love blossomed...

19thC Pair of Landscapes (2) Oil on canvas, 44 x 58 cm With frame 58 x 71 cm

Central-northern Italy, 18th century. Pair of inlays. (2) Various types of wood, briar, 25 x 38.5 cm. Frame, 25 x 38 cm. Very rare and meticu...

First half of the 18th century, Lombardy Putti (2) gilded wood, H 88 cm The work is distinguished by the high artistic quality and the remarkable executive care, as eviden...

Each cobalt ground with gilding, trumpet-form neck over baluster form body decorated with a figural scene in the garden, reverse with a garden folly, gilt...

A good quality pair of French 'Sèvres' style porcelain lidded vases. Each having female figures with cherubs flying around them. The panels set in dark blue ground with gilded highli...

Pair of porcelain covered potpourri urns Each with royal style portraits on front, mythological scenes on rear, stylized reticulated dome tops with wreath finials, large handles, o...

A Fine and Large Pair of Vienna Style Porcelain Vases and Covers, on Stands. Each of urn out-shape with loop handles. Each with cobalt blue-ground neck and cover with gilt-embossed ...