Ancient Trumeau Chinoiserie Style Italy '900 Mirror Flap - Italy, XX Century

Modern Painting Signed Walter Pozzi Oil on Canvas XX Century

Tavern

Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. On the back, further signature and title. Sparkling with light and color, Pozzi's painting, often evanescent and acrid, is pervaded by an ironic temperament, by his need to drug images with the merciless mockery of a false and fictitious world and yet, despite this, full of allusions. In this work, the bright colors contrast with the fixity and poor expressiveness of the figures: in a place of conviviality, such as an inn, these characters are distant from each other, blocked in their position, in their expression devoid of feeling. The painting is presented in a frame.

Antique Pendulum Clock Rococo Style Wood Italy XX Century

Antique Pendulum Rococo Style

Rococo style column clock, resting on a base with four truncated cone-shaped feet, has a curved structure completely veneered in rosewood with floral inlays, clock with worked brass mask and "Tempus fugit" writing, on the top a bronze with a rooster on a book and flowers.

Antique Clock Art Deco Wehrle Walnut Austria XX Century

Antique Pendulum Clock

Wehrle Austria Art Deco period pendulum clock, case with base plinth on which rests the case contained in two semi-columns with carved and gilded bases and capitals, veneered in walnut.

Antique Tryptych Bronze FHS Europe XX Century

Europe, XX Century

Triptych clock in bronze with decorations of plant motifs, shells and masks. Candelabra with six flames with arms with leafy scrolls. Mechanism marked FHS Germany.

Modern Painting Copy Claus Maeyer Oil on Hardboard XX Century

The Announcement

Oil on panel. The reference name is shown at the top left, with the surname changed to Mayer. This is a copy of the painting of the same name by Claus Meyer, which was auctioned in Germany in 2005. The German artist loved to reproduce genre scenes in Flemish style. In the work presented, set in a room of a bourgeois house, a man from behind is reading a letter to a group of other men, all notables or personalities of the place. The work is presented in a period frame.

Antique Table Set Crystal Europe XX Century

Europe, XX Century

Cut crystal table set with gold highlights consisting of a jug, seven flutes and a caviar service for six people.

Antique Manzhi Dance Ceremonial Axe Iron Leather Africa XX Century

Africa Third Quarter of the XX Century

Ceremonial axe for the “Manzhi” dance in iron with a braided leather handle, made by the Kirdi/Kapsiki, a population settled between north-western Cameroon and north-eastern Nigeria. The shape of the blade represents a stylised rooster.

Group of Booklets Paper Japan XX Century

Composed of woodblocked sheets, sewn together and partly colored, with matching figures and texts. The group consists of 23 booklets, of which two in three copies and one in four copies; another couple has the same cover but different contents. The booklets can be considered as "manga" of the nineteenth century: the word "manga" still today can designate many different productions, such as single cartoons, scattered drawings, more elaborate illustrations, comic strips, comic books, as well as animated drawings. Therefore, starting from the assumption that there is no "manga form" but different ways of conceiving objects and graphic forms all denominated with this word, the term manga can be attested in literary and essayistic use in Japan as early as the eighteenth century to indicate, as mentioned above, drawings and sketches. But it is from the first half of the nineteenth century that Katsushika Hokusai's 15 volumes of illustrations, studies, graphic entertainment and detailed bichromatic prints became established, thanks to the progressive publication, starting from 1814. If, on the other hand, we want to give the word the more specific meaning of “stories drawn in sequence”, then the debut must be placed in the second half of the nineteenth century, similarly to what happened in Europe and the United States for comics. The booklets are in good condition.

Alfonso Corradi Oil on Canvas Italy 1916

Hospitalization of the Trident 1916

Oil on cardboard. Signed lower right. On the back there is the name with the title, which locates the small glimpse in Macedonia in 1916, during the First World War. Alfonso Corradi, born in Emilia but trained and then lived in Milan, was a student of ornaments at the Brera Academy and for some years he also devoted himself to scenography. He specialized in landscape and embarked on an exhibition career concentrated above all in Milan. The subject proposed here, although of a landscape nature, is part of a rare production of a series of small pictures, almost sketches, which leads back to the First World War, in particular to the military expedition of an Italian body to Macedonia in 1916, sent by the government to the aim to counter the Austro-Hungarian and Bulgarian forces during the First World War and to control that territory. Moreover, there is no documentation of the painter's direct participation in this war campaign. The painting is framed.

Antique Column Neo-Renaissance Style Carved Wood Italy XX Century

Column for Vase

Carved vase holder in neo-Renaissance style, with festoons of falling leaves on the four sides.

Antique Tea Pot Silver A. Cesa Italy XX Century

Italy, Late XX Century

Silver teapot with chiseled handle and lid. Silver hallmarks engraved under the base. 396 grams.