Antique Drop Leaf Cabinet Chinoiserie Walnut Italy XX Century - Italy, XX Century

Italy, Mid XX Century

Hand-beaten silver centerpiece in the shape of a shell supported by leaf-shaped scroll feet and starfish decoration. Silversmith's label and silver marks engraved under the base. 515 grams.

Italy, XX Century

Silver dessert cutlery set consisting of a server, 6 forks, 6 knives and 6 teaspoons. Silver hallmarks engraved on the handles. 490 grams net of knives.

Italy, Mid XX Century

Silver centerpiece by Castaudi & Gautero. The circular centerpiece is decorated with a pod and has a raised edge adorned with leafy scrolls. 265 grams.

Turkey, Early XX Century

Embossed and chiseled silver dressing table mirror. Decorated with flowers and leafy scrolls. Engraved silver hallmarks.

England, Mid XX Century

Precision analog scale enclosed in an oak case with sliding front. Metal manufacturer's plate.

Europe, XX Century

Ship's porthole with four keys in brass with iron door. Serial number on the edge.

Europe, Mid XX Century

Set of six glass wall displays with brass frame and chains.

Composition with Bread and Tomatoes

Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. The artist's stamp is on the back of the frame. De Bernardi's painting is part of the Lombard landscape tradition of the 19th and 20th century. He always lived in Besozzo, his hometown in the province of Varese, but he traveled a lot, in Italy and outside of Italy, collecting impressions and researching, to relive them in his work, new landscapes. He preferred landscape production, even if declined with a changing style in his different pictorial phases. His production does not lack some still lifes, dating back mainly to the 1940s, compositions scrupulously drawn and aimed at dealing with the problems of light and atmospheric depth with agility and freshness, as in this presentation of some bread and tomatoes on a rustic table. Restored and relined, the painting is presented in a frame.

Italy, Mid XX Century

Precision analog scale enclosed in an oak case with sliding front and opening side doors. Metal manufacturer's plate.

Northern Italy, Early XX Century

Tea set in polychrome majolica with floral decoration of scattered flowers. Manufacturer's mark under the bases. The set consists of a teapot, sugar bowl, milk jug, four cups and six skates.

Oil on canvas. Northern European school, early 1900s. Unidentified signature on the lower right. The landscape represents a glimpse of uncultivated countryside, with patches of vegetation, meadows full of heather, crossed by a path that leads towards the nearby hills, passing next to a stable. The work has a small cut at the top center. It is presented in a frame.

The Joys of Mother

Oil on canvas. Early 1900s. The painting reproduces in rather detail the work of the same name painted in 1866 ca. by the Emilian painter Gaetano Chierici, an artist who became famous for a large production of scenes of peasant life, captured in rustic interiors, interpreted through an intimate sentimental adhesion and a clear formal realism, which tell of a small happy and always serene world, often joyful despite poverty, because it is devoid of any intent of social denunciation, but rather representative of the happy conception of family that the artist had. These paintings of his were so successful with the bourgeoisie of the time that they were replicated several times by the artist's own workshop and subsequently also by other painters. Chierici almost always set the scene inside a humble peasant kitchen, full of objects described in minute detail, populated by children intent on their daily activities, by adults who watch them happy and amused: in this scene set in a poor room, a woman sitting spinning, looks smiling tenderly amused at her two little children, the eldest who, standing, steals the pacifier from the little one lying on the floor on a bed of blankets, who stretches out his little hands towards his object of pleasure. The work, in the first canvas, is presented in a carved and gilded wooden frame from the late 19th century.