In 2017, the Department of Furniture, Sculpture and Objets d’Art still ranked first with a percentage of lots sold of 66.8% and lots sold in terms of value of 128.4%.
Thanks to its intense yet sever beauty, the Madonna col Bambino che stringe un uccellino e due cherubini (“Madonna with infant Jesus holding a bird and two cherubs”) stands out: an important marble bas-relief of the Fifteenth century by Gregorio di Lorenzo (Florence around 1436 – Forlì around 1504), sold for 136,400 euro. Desiderio da Settignano’s brilliant student and collaborator seems to be in line with the artists belonging to his generation, among whom Desiderio himself, Minao da Fiesole and Antonio Rossellino. Two carved wood consoles, sculpted and gilt, from the Nineteenth century with veneered, jasper top, enriched by the carving as well as by the use of masks and subjects. A set of wall-tables in the Louis XVI style, inspired to Piranesi’s style, sculpted and gilt – an example of the best Neoclassic production of the Roman scene between about 1770-1780 – which went both under the hammer for 105,400 euro. An original chest from the Eighteenth century, in carved and gilt wood, with a Spain brocatelle top painted with some episodes of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, sold for 59,520 euro. A set of Sicilian veneered chests in purple ebony from the Eighteenth century with a green marble top, sold for 43,400 euro. Finally, a rich Roman console from the Twelfth-Thirteenth century, carved, sculpted and gilt, in peach blossom wood and two Genoese sculpture groups in carved, gilt and laquered wood, with torch-holder cherubs on a rocky base, both sold for 34,720 euro.
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