Venetian

Lot 120. A rare and important Venetian parade shield, Italy, 16th century; 58cm. diam. Estimate: 30,000 - 50,000 GBP. Courtesy Sotheby's. constructed of wood with leather covering, lacquered with a deep red ground featuring tooled and gilt design of scrolling vines terminating in split palmettes, leaves and flowerheads. Provenance: Ex-private collection, Switzerland, pre-1991. Note: Locked in an enduring bittersweet relationship driven by commerce and trade as much as looting and... [Lire la suite]

Chess versus Backgammon, illustrated folio from an Anthology of Persian Treatises, Afghanistan, Herat, Timurid period, 1427. Ink, colors, silver, and gold on paper. Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence. Photo: Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies; © President and Fellows of Harvard College. CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- This focused exhibition features illustrated Persian manuscripts and detached folios that were collected in the early 20th century... [Lire la suite]

Lot 60. A Venetian enamelled and gilt glass pilgrim flask, almost certainly early 16th century.  Estimate 30,000 — 40,000 GBP. Photo: Sotheby's.  of flattened form with a bulbous lower section each side applied with a gilt spiralled glass medallion with green and blue enamel dots, enlivened with small gilt and blue rosettes, the side affixed with two gilt-glass loops flanking a gilt-lozenge reserving green, blue and red enamel dots, the neck with a band of... [Lire la suite]

Lot 17. A Venetian or Netherlands façon de Venise wine glass, 17th century. Estimate £1,500 - 2,000 (€1,700 - 2,200). Photo: Bonhams. In clear cristallo, the conical bowl on a small merese and hollow double-knopped stem, on a spreading folded foot, 13.6cm high. Provenance: From the estate of a Swiss collector. Bonhams. BRITISH AND EUROPEAN CERAMICS AND GLASS, 10:30 GMT - LONDON, KNIGHTSBRIDGE 

Pendant, Venetian, late 16th century. Bequeathed by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks, 1897. AF.2859. British Museum collection. © Trustees of the British Museum  gold; enamelled and jewelled; shaped, pierced plaque; Virgin(?) with chalice; quatrefoil pendant at base between two chains attached to pelican in her piety with jewelled wings and baroque pearl for breast; below: monster in coral attached by loops from which hang three quatrefoils with pearl at base of each.

  A pair of Italian painted and parcel-gilt mirrors, Venetian, circa 1760. Estimate 6,000 — 8,000 GBP. Photo Sotheby's. 73cm. high; 52cm. wide; 2ft. 4¾in., 1ft. 8½in.  PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE ITALIAN COLLECTION Provenance: With Galleria Silva, Milan Bibliography: Clara Santini, Le Lacche dei Veneziani, Modena, 2003, p. 78, fig. 7 (one illustrated);Catalogue No. 4, Galleria Silva, Milano, 2005, pp. 70-71    An Italian carved giltwood frame, Venetian, circa... [Lire la suite]

A set of ten Italian chinoiserie red lacquered and parcel-gilt chairs, Venetian, second quarter 18th century. Estimate £20,000 — 30,000 / €27,894 - 41,841. Photo Sotheby's ach with an arched rectangular pierced back with stylised shell motif above a baluster splat decorated with a chinoiserie figure with a parasol above chrysanthemums and swans, drop-in later leather upholstered seat on cabriole legs with a stylised scallopshell on the knees joined by a H-form turned and block... [Lire la suite]

Italian, Venetian, Christ Carrying the Cross, about 1500. Oil on wood (probably poplar), 36.4 × 29.9 cm. Presented by Angus Neill, 2015 © National Gallery, London. LONDON.- A rare early Italian Renaissance painting that has never been publically exhibited has been gifted to the National Gallery and is now on display. Christ carrying the Cross has been generously presented to the National Gallery by Angus Neill. Mr Neill, a loyal supporter of the Gallery, said: “For many years, regular visits to the National... [Lire la suite]

   A parcel-gilt polychrome circular enamel dish, Venetian, c.1500. Photo courtesy Brun Fine Arts. MASTERPIECES London 2014. Brun Fine Arts. STAND D3. 38 Old Bond St, London, W1S 4QW, United Kingdom. T +442074930195 - M +447719145243 - E-mail info@brunfineart.com- Website http://www.brunfineart.com/

Enea leaving Troy with his brother Anchise and son Ascanio, France, late 17th century. Photo courtesy Brun Fine Arts. A Marble Bust of a Lady, Florence, 18th century. Photo courtesy Brun Fine Arts. Portrait of Bartolomeo Compagni, Oil on panel, Florence, 16th century. Photo courtesy Brun Fine Arts. A Silver Plaque with s Relief of a Young Man, Rome, early 19th century. Photo courtesy Brun Fine Arts. White Marble Busts of Mars and Minerva, on a black portor marble pedestal, Italy, early 19th century; h. 67 cm. Photo... [Lire la suite]