Milan Religious Items

Small and lovely Italian Holy Water font from Italy, a shaped polychrome ceramic artwork dating back to Neoclassical period, early 19th century. This rare religious work is finely ...

An Italian straw work basket shaped hand bag from Bologna, a fantastic, typical and rare almoner basket used by Italian religious for charity purposes to collect begging. Decorated all over with intricately patterned straw covered case, a braided straw on an oval wooden structure. The oval wooden lid features a detailed repoussé silver layer decorated with scrolls and vegetal motifs and centered by a green precious stone. Silver hanlde is coated with leather and decorated by applied repoussé silver floaral elements and topped by a precious stone. Red lining inside. Silver elements are marked 800 and are realized by Stefani silvermaker from Bologna in the Mid-20th Century. The attribution to the silversmith Enea and Alessandro Stefani was mademade for similar artworks on the antiques market. Handmade in Italy, in Bologna, Emilia Romagna region, dating back to the first decade of 19th century, this oval shaped, hand-realized lidded almoner with arched handle was once used as hand-bag for begging and can be used nowadays for sewing, weaving or knitting works. Finely repoussé silver flowers are applied on the whole oval body of this straw basket. This basket is wonderful as a decorative object or an unusual storage solution. Bag basket making is an ancient and humble craft, but in the hands of a skilled artisan a simple basket can become a truly beautiful work of art. In good condition, with working lock and key on the lid. In overall good condition, minor signes of wear consistent with use and age, the lid shows a small cracking in the internal wooden cover. see closed up picture. A lovely antique Italian handmade box for collectors. Listed height of 42 cm refers to hanle's height - 26 cm is just the basket height. This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing legislation, any artwork in Italy created over 70 years ago requires a governative license for export called Belle Arti. The shipping may require additional 2-3 handling weeks to require and get the license according to the final destination of the artwork. The historic Stefani silverware was founded in Bologna in the early 1900s by Enea Stefani, who had learned the art of the silversmith at another historic Bolognese reality, the Zanetti workshop. In 1920 Enea Stefani inaugurated his workshop in Via Clavature, which will be the headquarters of the famous company until it definitively closes in 2015. First Enea and his son Alessandro then produce works of the highest quality, sometimes true masterpieces, working the silver with the ancient techniques of chiselling, embossing, engraving, wax casting, enriching their creations with semi-precious stones and high-fire enamels. The great mastery in the workmanship is combined with an aesthetic research and a poetic vein, especially in Alessandro, who succeeds his father in 1974, and who also signs numbered specimens, which lead to the creation of splendid pieces, such as candlesticks, rocaille-style double , cutlery, centrepieces, masgalani-silver basins...

Deposizione di Cristo nel Sepolcro 1650, opera barocca di scuola emiliana ispirata al Cristo deposto nel sepolcro di Annibale Carracci esposto al Metropolitan Museum of Art in New Y...

Early 19th century, Central Russia Vladimir's Mother of God Egg tempera on wood and Riza with orific embroidery, 53.5 x 42.5 x 4 cm This work presents the iconography of one of the most revered and famous Orthodox icons in the world: Vladimir's La Vladimirskaya or La Theotokos Medieval chronicles report that this icon of the Virgin by an anonymous Byzantine artist arrived from Constantinople to Kiev around 1130. At the behest of the Grand Prince Andrew Bogoliubsky in 1155 it was brought to the Cathedral of the Dormition in the city of Vladimir, from which the icon takes its name. first name. The fame of the miracles linked to the painting, already widespread for having saved Constantinople from the Turks, was further amplified when the painting was sent to the rescue in Moscow besieged by the Tamerlane hordes. According to legend, the Mongol conqueror was terrified by the vision of the Virgin surrounded by angels with swords...

Head of a Saint. The sculpture is made in northern Italy and depicts San Luigi Gonzaga. It is made of fruit wood finished in tablet and color. The eyes are in vitreous paste. The art...

Over the carved wooden painted base depicting a rock, is set a Vanitas, plaster cast sculpture of a human skull, with femoral bones. Italy last part of 18th century.

Antique Judaica Havdalah Besamin dating back to late 19th century, a silver and filigree spice tower. The Havdalah spice tower is set on a round base with Continental silver marks, h...

17th century, Emilian school St. Francis in prayer Measures: Oil on canvas, 92 x 96.5 cm Frame 99 x 104 cm The work in question depicts St. Francis of Assisi with his ha...

Antique Italian hand-carved and silvered base with cherubs dating back to the second half of 18th century, in good age related condition. It is a cloud-shaped wooden base with scr...

A painted porcelain Easter egg, depicting the icon with the Archangel Michael, on one side, while on the other side the cyrillic monogram: C.R. (Risen Christ), on a golden background...

A painted porcelain Easter egg, depicting a bunch of violet flowers on one side, while on the other side the cyrillic monogram: C.R. (Risen Christ), on a blue background. Russia, cir...

Early 20th century Art Deco silver Hanukkah lamp Menorah, Poland, circa 1920. Essential design and timeless elegance feature this antique silver Jewish lamp handmade with a rectangular base and two sphere supports connected to a demi lune shaped squared section main body. With eight oil receptacles and original servant lamp inserted in the center. Marked with silver maker mark JS and Polish silver mark on the base. Weight: 533 grams.   Bibl. Tardy, Parigi 1985, pag. 330.  The lamp is in good age related condition, comes from a villa on Lake Maggiore and weighs 533 grams and is in good condition except for a small dent on the edge of a candle and one on the edge of the base. It is an antique Italian oil lamp...