Venini Victoria Lamps Vintage Murano Glass Italy 1990s

France, 1980s-1990s

Honfleur Lalique crystal bowl with a wide satin edge and decorated with geranium leaves. Under the base, the pointed signature of the manufacture.

Sweden, 1992

Glass jug with polychrome details depicting a duck. Manufacturer's mark, designer's mark and model number scratched under the base.

Swatch Montre Black Sheep GN150 1994 new in original case. Analog display. Water resistant up to 3 bar. Swiss quartz movement type. This is a vintage (unworn) watch and should be considered a collector's item, sold without warranty.

Swatch Pop PW144 Legal Blue 1990 new in original case. Analog display. Water resistant up to 3 bar. Swiss quartz movement type. This is a vintage (unworn) watch and should be considered a collector's item, sold as seen and liked.

Swatch Gent GK133 Bermudas 1991 new in original case. Analog display. Water resistant up to 3 bar. Swiss quartz movement type. This is a vintage (unworn) watch and should be considered a collector's item, sold as seen and liked.

The Tale of Apollo and Marsyas

Oil painting on canvas. Northern Italian school of the seventeenth century. The large canvas derives from an engraving of 1562 by the Venetian Giulio Sanuto, who faithfully reproduced the homonymous work by Bronzino (1503-1572), currently preserved in the Hermitage; compared to the original, the engraving added the group of Muses and modified the landscape background by introducing views of the villages. The work is divided into four scenes, which must be read from right to left. The first scene depicts the musical contest between Apollo and the Silenus Marsyas, who played the flute so well that he was considered superior to the same god; the two contenders are performing, the god with the lyre and the silenus with the flute even upside down (to increase the difficulty of the undertaking), in front of King Midas and the goddess Minerva, recognizable by her attributes, the helmet, the spear and the shield. In the second scene Apollo is intent on skinning Marsyas, to punish him for having won the musical contest; lean on the ground next to him, his cloak and lyre. In the third scene, it is King Midas who is punished by the god for having preferred Marsyas to him: Apollo is putting the donkey's ears on Midas, while Minerva is watching. Finally, the fourth scene, in the foreground on the left, is characterized by a particular figure, identified in the faithful servant and barber of the king: since Midas had ordered him to keep the secret on his donkey ears, not being able to let off steam otherwise, he dug a hole in the ground and yelled into there his secret; in that place, however, legend has it that a bush of reeds grew that with the wind whispered "King midas has donkey ears", thus revealing the dreaded secret. The painting has been previously restored and relined, but currently needs any further color recovery. On the back in pencil there is an old attribution to the Ferrara school ("Ercole da Ferrara"). It is presented in a late 19th century style frame.

Oil on canvas. It is the portrait of a man in armor, accompanied by the writing at the top right "Paulus Maria Castellanus LT Gare". The word Castellanus could be the surname, very common and identifying the inhabitant of a castle, not necessarily the lord but a member of the family. The painting is presented in an ancient frame.

Oil on canvas. Northern Italian school of the 17th-18th century. In a large, rather barren hilly landscape, which widens and fades to the right, there is a high rock, shaped like an arch, under which there is Saint Jerome penitent, depicted in the act of prayer and adoration of the Cross. In accordance with the canons of 17th-18th century painting, the figure of the Saint, adapted to the iconography in his clothes and attitude, is however inserted in an unsuitable landscape, close to that of the painter who drew on the landscape reality known to him. . The painting, restored and relined, is presented in a period frame.

Composition with Carafe

Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. The composition harks back to Sante Monachesi's production from the 1940s and 1950s, in which the artist, after a debut close to Futurism, moves on to express his figurative poetics through synthetic compositions that expand, giving space to large chromatic fields, inspired by Neo Cubism. The work is presented in a frame.

Europe 19th-20th Century

Ancient style stone sculpture depicting a religious subject.

Italy Mid 1900s

Boat-shaped centrepiece in fluted and chiseled silver supported by four feet with leafy scrolls. Swan-shaped handles, silver marks incised under the Greek-chiseled edge. Silversmith's mark barely legible. 810 grams.

Infinitesimi 6, 2005

Photographic print on aluminum and plexiglass. On the back the signature, title and serial number 1/5 engraved in the aluminum. Also present label of the Galleria Fotografia Italiana with the complete data of the work. The artist originally from Basilicata but living in Milan, initially known for black and white photography, began a new path of research on color from the beginning of the 21st century. This includes the personal exhibition held in 2005 at the Galleria Fotografica in Milan, entitled Aspirazione, of which it has been said: "No narration, no recognizable reality, only evocations obtained through the evaporation of colors, in many scattered clouds: more painting than photography". The work presented here belongs to this trend.