Antique Empire Secrétaire Mahogany Veneered France XIX Century - France, Early XIX Century

Italy, Late XIX-Early XX Century

Hand-embossed copper basin with pods, mounted on a wrought iron tripod.

Italy, Early XIX Century

Small cheval mirror with tilting mirror.

19th Century / 1801 - 1900

Dark bronze table clock with gilded bronze plant motif decorations; at the top it has a torch with a laurely crown. Movement with cylinder escapement and enamelled metal display with Arabic numeral hours protected by curved glass cover. Original winding key.

Oil painting on canvas. Spanish school of the 19th century. The young woman, who wears a black cape over a lively yellow and white dress, has a rose stuck in one ear and wears elegant embossed pendant earrings; in her hand she holds a black mask, away from her face, from which she also pushes the hood away with the other hand, to reveal herself smiling and perhaps even a little mischievous. A sky of gray clouds opens up in a patch of blue to surround the figure, which stands out brightly. The painting is presented in an early 20th century frame.

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.

France, Second Half XIX Century

Fireplace triptych in gray marble and gilded bronze with vegetal motif decorations, garlands and festoons. Exhibition in gilded bronze and enamelled metal with Roman numeral hours protected by a bevelled glass lid, visible mechanism in the centre. Behind the mechanism marked Samuel Marti Medaille de Bronze.

England, Mid XIX Century

Liquor box in bois de rose wood worked in marqueterie with lid and wavy front and opening sides. Inside is a set of three bottles with silver labels and 11 crystal glasses decorated with plant motifs. Also present are 6 engraved glass glasses and a pair of frosted glass glasses. Working lock and original key.

Northern Italy, 1880 ca.

Steelyard balance in solid iron and bronze. Capacity 40 kg extendable to 120 kg. On the weights and on the graduated rod presence of stamps. The weighing plate is missing.

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.

Austria, First Half XIX Century

Wall clock in gilded wood with non-coeval plastic applications. Exhibition in metal and chiseled bronze with Roman numeral hours held by a crown of leaves and grapes. Bronze pendulum depicting the effigy of the sun.

The Nine Muses

Tapestry. The word Euterp appears at the bottom right. The enormous grass juice depicts the nine Muses, female Greek divinities, all sisters, as daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, and having the god Apollo as their guide. They represented the supreme ideal of Art, understood as the truth of the "Everything" or the "eternal magnificence of the divine". Initially considered in a generic way as divinities of song and joyous dances, responsible for putting into music and verse stories such as the origin of the world, the birth of gods and men, the exploits of Zeus, and often depicted accompanied by various musical instruments, starting from the Hellenistic era, all singing and musical expressions were associated with them, including sad and funeral ones, and other arts such as theatre, and each of them was associated with a specific genre of art, so that they could be invoked individually to exercise their inspiration and protection. The word "Euterp"refers to the name of one of them, Euterpe, muse of lyric poetry and music, traditionally depicted with a flute; but the name Euterpe etymologically means "She who cheers" who brings joy, and one can therefore think that the choice of this name to title the tapestry refers to the most ancient function of the Muses, those of bringers of joy through art. In this presentation, the muses appear dancing, dressed in veils and flowering branches; in their hands or placed next to them, instruments or other objects symbolizing the art that they inspire appear (both tragic and comic theatrical masks, the pictorial palette, various musical instruments...). The large painting has signs of wear and humidity stains.