European Furniture and Good Decorations
Catalogue Information: 263 lots | 254 with images
Date: 2005
Auction House:
Sotheby's
Location:
Netherlands
Lot 1: AN ITALIAN MICRO-MOSAIC PLAQUE DEPICTING A FRUIT STILL LIFE CIRCA 1800
set in bronze with a brown patina, depicting a bunch of grapes, an apple an a cherry in vivid colours
Lot 2: THREE VARIOUS GRAND TOUR SOUVENIRS 19TH CENTURY
comprising: a bronze bust of a Roman Emperor; a bronze sculpture after the Antique of the Infant Hercules, and an Italian Yellow Lamartine marble miniature tazza (3)
Lot 3: AN ITALIAN MICROMOSAIC PLAQUE DEPICTING THE FORUM ROMANUM 19TH CENTURY
centrally set in black marble, framed within a giltwood modelled frame
Lot 4: THREE ITALIAN MINIATURE MICROMOSAIC PLAQUES SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
one set in a Belgian black marble slab depicting St. Peter's Square, an other in a giltwood frame depicting the Pantheon, the third set in Belgian black marble depicting a dove (3)CATALOGUE NOTEThe plaque depicting St. Peter's Square can be dated aft [...more]
Lot 5: AFTER THE ANTIQUE. A PAIR OF CARRARA MARBLE BUSTS 19TH CENTURY
each carved in almost full round and looking to sinister, raised on a black marble stepped pedestal, (2)
