Pandolfini Antique Paintings, Furnitures and Accessories Auctions
Published December 10th, 2008
The Fine Art Auction House Pandolfini ends the 2008 activities with two sessions, which will be held at the Palazzo Ramirez - Montalvo from 16th to 17th December 2008.
Tuesday 16th December will be held the first fine art auction in Italy. The session Silver, coins, jewellery and watches starts with a collection of coins composed by up to 25 lots; amongst them, the lot of the Kingdom of Naples and Sicily from Charles II to Ferdinand II of Borbone (estimated 8.000/10.000 Euros), 5 lire coin of 1859 Mint of Bologna (estimated 5,000 Euros); a very rare coin, issued by a decree of Emilia Romagna of 17th January 1860, the House of Savoy - Vittorio Emanuele II the elected King (1859-1861); also a batch comprising 5 lire silver coin of 1869-1871-1872-1873-1875-1876-1877-1878, Mint of Rome (estimated 3,000 Euros). The rare batch (coined only 100 copies) is 20 lire in Silver 1927 (estimated 6000 Euros), Year V - Models by Giuseppe Romagnoli, Engraving by Attilio Motti, Kingdom of Italy - Vittorio Emanuele III (1900-1946).
Amongst the gems to be mentioned the Bulgari Turbogás Snake Watch, yellow gold and steel (estimated 5/6.000 Euros); a yellow- gold, diamond ring, shaped rounded band with heart profile, decorated with three inlaid diamonds, approx. 6 carats (estimated 13/15.000 Euros).
On Wednesday 17th, the auction continue with an auction of antique furniture and furnishings. Amongst these are to be mentioned a large cabinet of 1700 in Lombardo style, inlaid walnut wood and partly carved, with a rectangular top (estimated 8/10.000 Euros) and a Neapolitan Console half of the XVIII century, carved and gilded wood Mecca, with Bardiglio marble top (estimated 10/15.000 Euros).
The art auctions in Italy close on Wednesday, 17th December with a session dedicated to the ancient paintings. To be mentioned a portrait of a young girl in a white dress, oil on canvas credited to Martin Drolling (Oberbergheim 1752 - Paris 1817) estimated 20/30.000 Euros; an oil on canvas by a Flemish painter of the XVII century, hunting wild boar in a snow landscape, estimated 8/12.000 Euros; a composition of flowers with parrot, credited to the Master of flowers Guareschi (eighteenth century), estimated 11-13.000 Euros.
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