Antique Baroque Style Cabinet Walnut Italy XX Century - Italy, Early XX Century

Gallant scene

Oil on canvas. Signed both lower and upper left. The scene is set in a rich noble hall, where ladies and knights in eighteenth-century clothes entertain. It is the work of the prolific Neapolitan painter Salvatore Balsamo, who died very young. It is presented in a mid-1900s frame.

Oil on canvas. Signed lower right R. Giffinger. The countryside landscape features a torrent that flows impetuously in the center, passing under the stone bridge that leads to the farmhouse on the right, surrounded by green foliage. The effects of light are emphasized by the use of a rather material color, especially in the foam of the water and the foliage of the trees. The painting is presented in a period frame.

Italy Mid 1900s approx.

Centerpiece in chiseled and perforated silver. Bowl in ground glass. Silver and silversmith marks engraved on the central part of the edge. Grams 273.

Oil on canvas. Signed H.Cooper lower left and dated 1909. On the back an inscription indicates the location of Bishops' Stortford, in the English county of Hertfordshire. It actually depicts a glimpse of the English countryside, with a rural house on the bank of the river, on which stands a fisherman. The painting is presented in a period frame.

Flowers in Vase

Oil painting on canvas. Signed lower right. The Milanese artist Roberto Borsa stood out for a painting defined as "brilliant and spirited", created in a "very robust and warm" style, in which the impressionist derivation of the search for light effects, however, remains linked to the realist tradition of the late Lombard nineteenth century. The painting is presented in a mid-20th century frame.

Italy 1960s

Jewellery box in beaten and chiselled silver supported by four feet. Wavy edge, applied bouquets of flowers. Artificial oval stone in the centre of the lid on a leafy scroll mount. Silver and silversmith marks engraved under the base. 365 grams.

Oil on canvas. The large painting features a golden frame with scrolled friezes in the center of a red background, in which a praying Virgin is painted, looking at the productions of the late 17th-early 18th century; the frame is supported on the sides by two golden cherubs, who rest their feet and hands on decorations that are also golden with scrolls, on which are inserted multi-colored leaves and flowers. The painting is pre-realized on two canvases sewn horizontally. The panel is surrounded by trimmings.

Italy, Second Half XX Century

Hand-hammered and hammered silver jug. Under the base there are silver and silversmith's marks engraved. Adhesive manufacturing label. 515 grams.

Italy, Early XX Century

Embossed and chiseled silver stand with floral and fruit decoration. Wavy edge. Silver marks engraved under the base. 390 grams.

The Black Cape, 1950s-60s

Print on paper. At the bottom the words "Gallery Five PU4/IK - Black Cape by Audrey Beardsley - Printed in England". This is a 1950s-1960s reissue by the London gallery of one of the Art Nouveau illustrations made by Audrey Beardsley for Oscar Wilde's play "Salomé: a tragedy in one act", written in French in 1891 by Oscar Wilde, published in London in English for the first time in 1893 and released the following year with sixteen illustrations by the young artist. Wilde's irreverent genius found full expression in Beardsley's drawings: Beardsley's elegant black and white silhouettes are the exact icon of the style that the designer and writer embodied, that is, the figure of the dandy who elevates himself and his life to a work of art, through an egocentric satisfaction in his own aesthetic refinement. Beardsley's flat, asymmetrical, superficial decorations were in sharp contrast to trompe l'oeil naturalism, to everything that is volume or plastic body, to massive, heavy, overloaded forms, to excess of detail, in short to the taste of the mature Victorian era. The work is presented in a frame.

Oil on canvas. Central European school of the first half of the 20th century. Unidentified signature on the lower left. In a wide valley under sharp mountain peaks, a small lake opens up, on which some houses overlook and boats sail; some common people's figures are busy with daily activities. Pleasant and serene in the green-blue hues of nature. It is presented in a period frame.