Auction for furniture, paintings and objects from the legacy of Eduardo De Filippo

From one Modena residence comes from a refined nucleus of objects of virtue which includes a collection of snuffboxes, door necessities, chatelaines in gold, silver and various materials. The precious one is particularly important lapis lazuli and gold snuffbox (estimate €7.000-8.000) which, due to family tradition, it is believed to have been donated to the Marquise Livizzani by Francesco III d'Este, duke of Modena and Reggio. They complete the house sale various pieces of furniture from the Emilia area, such as the pair of XNUMXth century Modenese game tables in walnut inlaid in Rosewood e wood of violets (estimate €14.000-16.000).

The second private collection comes from an elegant one Lombard villa with the refined  Stamped French furniture from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the paintings and objects including two terracotta sculptures by Clemente Vantini (estimate € 2.200/2.400), a Tuscan kiln worker who conceived and created some terracotta works in the Boboli Gardens.  

A selection of furnishings from the home of Eduardo De Filippo are characterized by being an expression of the personal and artistic life of the famous Neapolitan playwright and actor: antique furniture, paintings and sculptures "recovered over time or in old theaters now destroyed”. A pair of marble busts (estimate €7.000-8.000); two monumental pairs of early 2.400th century Neapolitan torchlights in bronze (estimate € 2.600-4.500 each); a pair of Neapolitan sculptures in lacquered and carved wood depicting characters from the comedy in nineteenth-century clothes (estimate € 5.000-XNUMX) are just a few examples of that stage instinct with which he loved to surround himself even in the privacy of his own home. 

Instead it emerges from the paintings of the Neapolitan school of the sec. XVII and XVIII the collector Eduardo who abandons the exquisitely histrionic attraction towards the work of art to grasp its stylistic quality and intrinsic beauty. 

The section dedicated more generally to Furnishings of various and different origins It includes a core of sculture from various periods, including a female head attributed to Giovanni Marchiori and some wooden figures as well as groups in pietra serena from a garden designed in the 50s by the architect Pietro Porcinai. 

Numerous le Majolica and Porcelain of the best known Italian and international manufacturers. They stand out for one particularity rare pair of hoard  watch holder in majolica of the manufacture of Happy Clerici (estimate €14.000-16.000) next to creations di Ginori, Cozzi and Sassuolo; then porcelain from Vienna, Meissen and numerous German manufactures of the sec. XVIII and XIX.

For the sector of Silvers of note are the numerous pieces from Emilia and those from an important Milanese collection, among which the coffee makers of the Roman master stand out as examples of Italian mastery and creativity Giuseppe Grazioli, of the Turin masters Joseph Gaia e Vincent Belli.

Representing the XNUMXth century are two snuffboxes by Mario Buccellati bearing the mottos of his friend and patron Gabriele D'Annunzio.

Rich and prestigious selection of Old Master Paintings which features an extraordinary protagonist Isaac's sacrifice di Joseph Vermilion (estimate €70.000-80.000) and a table of Peter Paul Rubens workshop depicting the Judgment of Paris (estimate €160.000-180.000). 

There is a wide representation of Italian and foreign works: plates of the Flemish school, two small plates of Christopher of Benedict; a work of Lorenzo de Caro, an unprecedented Portrait of Innocent XI Odescalchi di Jacob Ferdinand Voet (estimate €16.000-18.000), a pair of gold bottoms from the XNUMXth century of Valencian production, two typical depictions of Giacomo Francesco Cipper, ditto Todeschini, and three paintings by Francesco Londonio.  

Among the Drawings by Old Masters and Engravings, particularly interesting a refined design attributed to Dominic Piola (estimate €500-600), a study by Dominic Maria Canuti, works of Gaetano Gandolfi, Bernardino Bison e Hercules Bazzicaluva. Between iincisions two remarkable impressions of Rembrandt.

In the selection of Carpets and Fabrics an interesting keshan knotted in the workshops of the illustrious Persian master Motashem (estimate € 2.700-2.900) and a rare specimen of tapestry of the Mediterranean area early 1.100th century (estimate €1.300-XNUMX).

For fans of Musical instruments will be proposed a violin built in Ferrara in 1908 by Louis Soffritti (estimate €15.000-17.000) and one of the first violins by Laura Vigato important and well-known luthier from Brescia. 

To close the selection the lots of Historica including one sword of the Ancient States belonged to a dignitary of the duchy of Modena at the beginning of the 1.600th century, with handle depicting the Este eagle on laurel branches (estimate € 1.800-XNUMX).