Antique Secrétaire Louis Philippe Mahogany France XIX Century - France, Mid XIX Century

China, Late XIX Century

Drum-shaped wooden rice container. The lacquered surface is embellished with thin mecca gilding decorations that frame polylobed reserves. Two lateral handles with chiseled metal studs in the shape of chrysanthemum flowers.

Europe, Late XIX-Early XX Century

Pair of iron andirons. Pharaoh's face on the front.

Italy, XIX Century

Embossed sheet metal altar card with mercury mirror.

Italy Second Half 19th Century

Planer with double adjustment.

Courtship at the Well 1873

Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower right. Haier was a Viennese painter and photographer, but lived for a long time in the Czech Republic. His pictorial production includes portraits and many genre scenes, set like this one in the Czech rural environment. We have a seller of jars, transported on the back of his donkey, who entertains himself at a well in amorous conversation with a girl, who in the meantime offers a tuft of grass to the docile beast. The painting is presented in a period frame.

Oil on canvas. Dutch school of the late 18th-early 19th century. On the back of the frame, an early 20th-century inscription reads "The Surgeon, based on a subject by Bega", referring to the Dutch painter Cornelis Bega (1620 - 1664) who stood out for his genre scenes, usually interiors and in a popular style. The interior of a house is shown here, where a woman is treating a man's leg wound, assisted by her little daughter and the curious old woman. The work is presented in an early 20th-century frame.

Landscape with Figures

Mixed media on cardboard. Signed lower left. Stamp of the artist's studio on the back. The painter of Apulian origins Giuseppe Casciaro, painter and teacher at the Institute of Fine Arts in Naples where he trained, was essentially a landscape painter and produced in particular views of the surroundings of Naples, Irpinia (Nusco) and Puglia. He preferred the pastel painting technique in which he excelled. Here is a glimpse of a Mediterranean countryside, crossed by a path with wayfarers. It is presented in a period frame.

France, Late XIX-Early XX Century

Bronze table clock with leafy scroll decoration and amphora at the top. Residues of gilding are visible on the back. Dial with Roman numeral hours and mechanism marked Japy Frères Medaille d'Honneur.

France, Second Half XIX Century

Freestanding clock in gilded bronze with leaf scroll decorations and vegetal motifs. Enamelled metal display with Roman numeral hours and Arabic numeral minutes protected by a curved glass lid.

Europe, Late XIX Century

Wooden freestanding clock with brass, mother-of-pearl and fake tortoise inserts, surmounted by a gilded bronze sculpture depicting a gallant scene. Enamelled metal display with Roman numeral hours protected by a bevelled glass lid.

Italy, Late XIX Century

Ceramic serving plate decorated with a stylised polychrome bouquet of flowers on the bottom and a blue geometric Greek pattern along the rim.