Neo-Renaissance Mirror Italy XIX Century - Second half of the 19th century

Antique Console with Mirror Neo-Classical Style Linden XIX Century

Neoclassical style boiserie

Console with mirror in neoclassical style made in the last quarter of the 19th century. Marble top macchia vecchia, the console has two carved bracket uprights with a bottom decorated with a vase of flowers with carved garlands. Neoclassical carved motifs also embellish the mirror which contains a painting on wood with a gallant scene in the cymatium. The entire surface is lacquered ivory with gilded parts especially in carving. In the bottom panel painted with gilding the festoon motif.

Antique Chest Umbertino Beech Italy XIX Century

Chest, 1899

Rustic beech wood chest with barrel lid and carvings engraved on the front with the date 1899, wooden nailing.

Antique Sofa Louis Philippe Mahogany Fabric Italy XIX Century

Italy

Louis Philippe sofa for living room or conversation, in mahogany, bipartite back with central balustrade, padded seat, armrests and back, front feet with casters. Italy, second quarter of the 19th century.

Antique Chairs Baroque Style Walnut Italy XIX Century

Italy, Late XIX Century

Group of six baroque style chairs, in walnut, carved front crosspiece and backrest. Italy, late 19th century.

Antique Bed Louis Philippe Wrought Iron Italy XIX Century

Antique Wrought Iron Bed, Mid XIX Century

Wrought iron bed made in the mid-19th century, decorated with curled scrolls made of iron on the headboard and footboard with metal medallions in the centre painted with Raphaelesque subjects.

Antique Safe Chubb & Son's Metal England XIX Century

Chubb & Son's Safe

Small reinforced metal safe, England, late 1900s, bronze label on the door with indication of the manufacturing company and writing painted inside the door on a white background.

Antique Sofa Louis Philippe Walnut Fabric Italy XIX Century

Italy

Louis Philippe sofa in walnut. Wavy legs and armrests with leaf-shaped carvings. Padded seat, sides and back. Italy, second quarter of the 19th century.

Antique Painting Male Portrait Oil on Canvas XVII Century

Oil on canvas. The man portrayed is identified as Giovan Battista Stampa di Gravedona, a jurist, as cited by the writing at the top left, which declares his position, and by the heading of the letter he is holding. The Stampa family, originally from Gravedona on Lake Como, belonged to the local notable class and, by virtue of this, they also played a certain public role. In the painting the man is depicted sitting at his desk, among the papers of his work, stern in the face as his position required. Restored (obvious signs of restoration due to old breaks in the canvas, marked crack) and relined, the painting is presented in an adapted antique frame.

Antique Bed Umbertino Wrought Iron Decorations Italy XIX Century

Wrought iron bed from the Umbertine period

Wrought iron bed from the late 19th century with painted sheet metal panels, turned feet.

Antique Bed Umbertino Wrought Iron Italy XIX Century

Wrought iron bed from the Umbertine period

Late 19th century wrought iron bed with painted sheet metal panels and turned feet.

Antique Cupboard Neo-Renaissance Walnut Italy XIX Century

neo-renaissance belief

Neo-Renaissance cupboard from the late 19th century in walnut and walnut veneer, two doors on the front, a drawer under the top and one in the base above the feet, decorations with carved panels in Renaissance style, turned feet.

Antique Painting Historical Subject Oil on Canvas XVII-XVIII Century

Oil on canvas. The woman depicted in the scene can be traced back to Porzia, the Roman noblewoman and wife of Brutus, who lived in the 1st century BC: according to legend, she committed suicide by swallowing a burning coal, and it is in this fatal moment that she is depicted here. The painting is very close to the pictorial methods of the painting of the same name from the Cignani school, attributed to his pupil Marcantonio Franceschini and preserved at Palazzo Tozzoni in Imola. The figure of Porzia, placed in an interior with classical elements, occupies the entire field of the scene, and is depicted sitting in front of the burning brazier, in the act of putting the coal in her mouth; her expression reveals the suffering of the gesture she is making, but also her determination, her gaze looking into the distance already places her far from the life she is leaving. The painting has been restored and relined. It is presented in an antique 18th century frame.