Young woman with amphora

Early XIXth century . Turin , Italy . Burnished bronze with nice patina representing an arab girl coming back from the well . Refined execution of the bronze. High : 86 cm Wide : 30 cm

Gilt bronze chandelier

Early nineteenth century – France . After a model of André-Charles Boulle ,cabinetmaker ,ebanist , bronze maker. Baroque Period It is an important version realized at the beginning of nineteenth century. High quality of the gilded- bronze with mercury . High : 93 cm Wide : 100 cm

Large antique roman fireplace.

Half eighteenth century. Rome, Italy. Rocaille style. Unusual wooden fireplace with gold leaf adornments, floral motifs and festoons with rocaille motif carving. Beautiful gilding, in good conservation. A grey painted panel covers the fireplace mouth. Size: cm 134 x 187 x cm 34.

Pair of violet marble vases .

Early nineteenth century, France. A pair of Brèche violette marble vases with chased ormuly mounts. Each vase of baluster form mounted with a square ormoulu plinth and with acanthus leaves , rocaille handles. Gilded mercury bronzes. High 50 x 25 cm. Bases : 15 x 15 cm.

MARBLE BUST OF NAPOLEON.

Early XXth century, France. Finely carved in statuary marble in the round, Napoleon is represented as a young man with a military attitude, confident in himself -. The cockade should refer to the period of the war in Egypt. Even the uniform with rigorous drapery, the eagle with outstretched wings that adorns the base, are …

Piazza Barberini, Roma sparita.

Late XIXth, begining XXth Century, Dusseldorf,Germany. Signed Albert Arntz, Germany 1832-1914. He studied painting from 1854 to 1860 at the KunstaKademie of Dusseldorf. He seen Italy several times and he painted different landscapes of Naples and Rome. In his work we can find an effective treetment of light and colour. In this “Piazza Barberini” we …

Antique carved ivory and marble crucifix .

XVIIth Century ,Italy. Antique ivory crucifix mounted on a wooden ebony cross and placed on a red onyx marble. The sculpture of the Christ has an evident Jansenist inspiration and is made with great anatomical care. On the top of the cross is an ivory cartouche Titulus Crucis Inri. The ivory skull inserted into the …

Italian landscape with courting couple.

Late Seventeenth,Holland. The painting, a classically sized oil on canvas (82 X 118 cm), can be traced to Dutch Golden Age landscape painter Pieter Van der Leeuw, 1647 Dordrecht, Netherlands 1679. In this Italianate view in which a shepherd woos a young girl, surrounded by animals silhouetted against the background of a clear sky with …