Mirabilia Naturalia

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Mirabilia Naturalia

tue 22 February 2022
Milan
SINGLE SESSION 22/02/2022 Hours 15:00
A collection of extraordinary natural elements from private collections
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1 - 60  of 211 LOTS
43
A spotted reef crab on a wooden base.

W. 32 - D. 18 - H. 9 Cm
€ 150,00 / 200,00
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115
Fossilised Araucaria wood

W. 9 - H. 13 cm
€ 150,00 / 200,00
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126
Amethysts varying in size, H 14 cm and 12 cm including base. Amethyst is a violet variety of quartz, often combined with subalkaline basaltic rocks.
€ 150,00 / 180,00
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190
A tiger's eye stone box

W. 12 - D. 8,5 - H. 3 Cm
€ 150,00 / 250,00
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203
A silver frog on a smoky rock crystal pebble

W. 9 - D. 6 - H. 5 Cm
€ 150,00 / 200,00
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35
Starfish on gilt wood bases. H 30 cm and 15 cm
€ 180,00 / 220,00
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125
Sandstone concretion of pure siliceous sand, H 18 cm and H 15 cm including base
€ 180,00 / 220,00
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6
A depiction of a skull on an ostrich egg. Bronze base

H. 24,5 Cm
€ 200,00 / 300,00
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11
A Shiva Lingam made from a combination of agate, basalt and quartz jasper on a plastic vase.

H. 39 cm
€ 200,00 / 250,00
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30
A Turbo shell and a magnifying glass with a light, on a turned and lacquered wood base. H 6 cm and H 19 cm for the lens
€ 200,00 / 250,00
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42
Carpilius maculatus, spotted reef crab on a light blue lacquered wood base.

W. 45 - D. 17 - H. 17 Cm
€ 200,00 / 220,00
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58
Known as the Madagascar Rainbow Locust, with its yellow colour with blue stripes and red spines on its thorax, is a poisonous insect.

W. 24 - D. 10 - H. 40,5 Cm
€ 200,00 / 250,00
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132
A medium-sized labradorite on a black base. It is a variety of anortite with colours ranging from green to blue, used in jewelry-making.

W. 12 - H. 11 Cm
€ 200,00 / 250,00
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160
Rock crystal bowls

W. 11 cm
€ 200,00 / 250,00
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189
Limestone with manganese dendrites within a wooden oval

W. 24 - H. 27 Cm
€ 200,00 / 250,00
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209
Silver, partially gilt, with beads.

H. 5 Cm
€ 200,00 / 300,00
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19
Pocillopora meandrina Pocilloporidae are a family of hermatypic colonial corals, extremely polymorphic, differing in growth and form in response to light availability and wave action. cites II/B Solomon Islands

H. 24 Cm
€ 240,00 / 260,00
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3
A wax skull with glass eyes on a carved and silver-plated wooden column drum base.

W. 21 - H. 9 Cm
€ 250,00 / 350,00
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9
Dromaius Novaehollandiae on turned and silver-plated wooden bases

H. 19,5 Cm
€ 250,00 / 300,00
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20
Stylophora pistillata is a stony polyp coral. Its natural habitat is at a depth beween 1 and 15 mt but it adapts easily to any climate and temperature. cites II/B

W. 23 - D. 22 - H. 30 Cm
€ 250,00 / 280,00
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22
Nautilus pompilius The nautilus has a planispiral shell that is internally divided by septa into several camerae, connected by a siphuncle. cites II/B on a metal base

W. 16 - D. 13 - H. 21 Cm
€ 250,00 / 280,00
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23
Pecten Subnodosus on turned and lacquered wood bases

H. 24 Cm
€ 250,00 / 350,00
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26
Seashells on turned, carved and lacquered bases

H. 22 Cm
€ 250,00 / 350,00
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27
Turbo Marmoratus is a green turban snail. On turned and lacquered wood bases.

H. 26 Cm
€ 250,00 / 350,00
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51
Scorpionfish, gorgoniae, seashells within a glass case.

H. 23 Cm
€ 250,00 / 350,00
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62
Papilio Blumei is a diurnal butterfly with green wings shifting into blue on the tips. On a brass and marble base.

W. 20 - D. 20 - H. 34 Cm
€ 250,00 / 300,00
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120
Red varnished wood

W. 45 - H. 77 cm
€ 250,00 / 300,00
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124
Sandstone concretion of pure siliceous sand, two gogottes H 14 cm and one H 13 cm including base
€ 250,00 / 280,00
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131
A medium-sized labradorite on a black base. It is a variety of anortite with colours ranging from green to blue, used in jewelry-making.

H. 18 Cm
€ 250,00 / 300,00
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192
Small brass sculpture with sea urchins

W. 11 - D. 9 - H. 44 Cm
€ 250,00 / 350,00
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193
Minerals and crystals on carved and gilt wood bases, varying in size H 10 cm, 11 cm, 12.5 cm, and 13 cm
€ 250,00 / 350,00
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195
Asian nuts, red coral, Baroque pearls

H. 10,5 Cm
€ 250,00 / 300,00
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61
A large blue emperor butterfly within a glass bubble.

W. 20 - D. 20 - H. 34 Cm
€ 280,00 / 320,00
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4
An anatomic model of a skull, including the jaw, on a carved, lacquered and gilt base

H. 27,5 Cm
€ 300,00 / 350,00
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12
A natural polished coconut sculpture

W. 27 - H. 31 cm
€ 300,00 / 350,00
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13
A black lacquered coconut sculpture on a plexiglas base

W. 22 - H. 30 cm
€ 300,00 / 350,00
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14
Coco de mer is a plant of the Arecaceae family and is the only species in the Lodoicea maldivica genus.

W. 29 - D. 25 - H. 15 Cm
€ 300,00 / 400,00
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76
Hippopotamus amphibiuscites Hippopotamus teeth on a wooden base Cites II/B, CITES permit 8/01/2016

W. 20 - H. 32 cm
€ 300,00 / 350,00
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87
Gigantopecten is a genus of fossil scallops, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Pectinidae, the scallops. From the Oligocene period.

W. 23 - D. 19 - H. 12 Cm
€ 300,00 / 350,00
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130
This "speckled stone" is a sedimentary monomineralic rock, meaning that it is formed of only one mineral, that is made up of quartz and often includes impurities.

H. 16 Cm
€ 300,00 / 400,00
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140
A slice of Brasilian agate with iridescent blueish colours covered in red haematite with a double crystal heart

W. 27 - D. 7,5 - H. 20 Cm
€ 300,00 / 350,00
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159
Rock crystal or hyaline quartz has a clear, ferrous colour with many inclusions.

W. 21 - H. 15,5 cm
€ 300,00 / 350,00
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161
A copper carbonate mineral that can take on many shades of green. The ashtray is in good conditions.

W. 17 - D. 17 - H. 16 Cm
€ 300,00 / 350,00
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162
Good conditions, with a peculiar shape and the typical colours of this mineral

H. 21 Cm
€ 300,00 / 350,00
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163
A monomineralic sedimentary rock, composed of quartz and often including impurities, usually of iron compounds that give the rock its bright colours.

H. 39 cm
€ 300,00 / 350,00
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166
Quartz on a wood and brass base

W. 31 - H. 27 Cm
€ 300,00 / 400,00
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171
Silver bowl with amber knobs

W. 20 - D. 5,5 - H. 7 Cm
€ 300,00 / 400,00
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185
W. 15 - D. 10 - H. 7 Cm
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196
Coral on a tiger-striped jade vase

W. 12,5 - D. 5 - H. 13 Cm
€ 300,00 / 400,00
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200
A turned agate vase, metal skull, red coral

W. 12 - H. 8 Cm
€ 300,00 / 400,00
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205
Corytophanes cristatus or helmeted iguana in a prismatic crystal display

H. 17,5 Cm
€ 300,00 / 500,00
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8
Eggs with turned and lacquered wood bases and tips

H. 32 Cm
€ 350,00 / 400,00
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25
Two Echinus esculentus on turned, carved and gilt bases

H. 15 Cm
€ 350,00 / 450,00
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29
Tonna ampullacea, on turned and lacquered bases H 28 cm and 32 cm
€ 350,00 / 400,00
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1 - 60  of 211 LOTS