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Germany, XX Century

Coffee set Meissen manufacture with polychrome decorations of flowers and fruit on a white porcelain background decorated in relief. Gold highlights and manufacturer's mark under the bases. The service consists of a coffee pot, sugar bowl, milk jug and eight cups with saucers.

Germany, XX Century

Group of four white porcelain coffee cups and saucers decorated with plant motifs and highlighted in gold. Under the base, the manufacturer's mark.

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.

Europe, XX Century

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

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.

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.

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.

Column for Vase

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

Italy, Late XX Century

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

France, 1921

Wall clock in gilded and carved bronze with leafy scrolls and plant motifs. Enamelled metal dial with Roman numerals for hours and Arabic numerals for minutes. Finely carved bronze hands. The mechanism is engraved with the words "M.me Couchet à Berou".

Still Life

Oil on canvas. Signed top right. The painter of Calabrian origins Enotrio Pugliese, known as Enotrio, preferred to paint subjects linked to his homeland, Calabria, in landscapes but also in still lifes of popular objects, of simple everyday life, such as the composition presented here. The painting is presented in a frame.