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Antiques at Cambi in Genoa: furnishings, paintings, porcelain, carpets and important silverware

From 22 to 23 October Cambi Casa d'Aste in its Genoa office will exhibit and auction over 1000 lots divided into the catalogs of Antiques, Collectible Silver and XNUMXth Century Collectible Silver.

Antiques at Cambi in Genoa: furnishings, paintings, porcelain, carpets and important silverware

The sale is dedicated to Antiques with an extensive catalog divided into thematic sections including Furniture, Paintings, Porcelain and Antique Carpets: Among the furnishings in prominence, an important chest of drawers veneered in rosewood and threaded in bois de rose, Genoa, mid-20.000th century valued at 25.000 - XNUMX, a significant example of refined Genoese cabinet-making. A table with a round top in black and white Aquitaine marble and classic-style zoomorphic trapezoids in white marble from the 9.000th century, estimated at between €10.000 and €800. Among the ancient porcelain and majolica, a splendid Pavia Plate stands out, from the last quarter of the 1200th or early XNUMXth century. It depicts a scene with a traveler in the foreground among solemn monumental ruins and a quiet mountain landscape. The happy pictorial formula is the work of the painters of the Africa family who worked for the two major furnaces of Pavia. Estimated XNUMX – XNUMX €.

The Antiques Auction it will also be an occasion to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Giglio Bagnara, a reference company for clothing and fashion in the Genoese area. Among the numerous events organized throughout the city, Bagnara will exhibit its important collection of carpets (owned by the family since the 50s) in this appointment in a dedicated section, by virtue of strengthening the relationship of esteem and friendship of two important realities business for the city of Genoa.

Collectible Silver and Silverware da 23th century collection and will be the objects up for auction on Wednesday XNUMX October.
In the first section we find the style of eighteenth-century Italian silverware made through a group of important coffee makers made in the most significant production centers of the peninsula such as Rome, Genoa, Turin, Milan, Milan, Bologna and Florence, all coming from a prestigious Turin collection. , a relevant set of candlesticks and double-glasses with the famous Genoese brand of the "Torretta" that run through the entire production of the eighteenth century with some rare examples from the very first decades of the century.

As usual, European manufacturers will also be represented with numerous and important works such as the tray produced in Paris by the Odiot atelier or the monumental pair of candlesticks in the shape of vine shoots.
In the second catalog dedicated to silver we find the works produced by the most important and well-known goldsmiths and XNUMXth century brands such as the refined works of Mario, Federico and GianMaria Buccellati or the famous Roman Maison Bulgari with its creations inspired by classical antiquity and still for Italy silver by Gucci, works by the Milanese Finzi, Sant'Elia, Genazzi and Messulam and by the Romans Serra and Petochi.

To complete the auction, works by the Danish Jensen, the French Puiforcat and Cartier, the English Mappin & Webb and Elkington or the creations of the Americans Tiffany and Gorham. At the end of the catalogue, a curious and interesting set of works with animalier subjects

Cover image: Cambi Auction House

ROSEWOOD VENEER AND BOIS DE ROSE THREADED DRESSER, GENOA, MID-XNUMXTH CENTURY

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