Precious works of art, fine furniture and fairy-tale furnishings. Cambi Auction House dedicates, on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, a new appointment to the best of Italian family residences, presenting a new and rich catalog with timeless elegance. A selection of precious works and furnishings, capable of perfectly telling the art and the all-Italian history of good living.

Protagonist of the auction, the collection of the Cesari family, important textile entrepreneurs, owners of the iconic Cesari in Rome, historically led by founder Luigi Cesari. The company gained worldwide fame thanks to the sophistication of their products, lining the most important living rooms of the most prominent families and becoming one of the symbols of Rome's Dolce Vita. The Cesari mansion boasts of a vast collection of period objects, paintings and furniture collected over time by Luigi Cesari and continued with great care and attention by his wife Stefania.

Prominent among the collection's top lots are a pair of important 18th-century carved and gilded wooden consoles (estimate: €18,000 - €24,000). Also standing out is an important collection of silver coffee pots, including a model from the first half of the 19th century made by master silversmith Angelo Giannotti (1824-1865) featuring elegant neoclassical-style decorations with a goose-shaped pour and greyhound-shaped handle (estimate: €5,000 - €7,000).

Prominent among the works in the collection are the Portrait of a Gentlewoman (estimate: €8,000 - €12,000) and the Portrait of Leonora Alvarez de Toledo known as Dianora (estimate: €12,000 - €18,000), formerly attributed to Bronzino, coveted by Alessandro Allori. Also, a set of chinoiserie-decorated furnishings such as the commode signed Denis Genty in polychrome-painted wood with gilded bronze elements (estimate: €6,000 - €8,000) and the mirror, also in ebonized and gilded wood, made in England in the 18th century (estimate: €8,000 - €12,000).

Also worth mentioning, a striking set of chiseled and gilded bronzes of French neoclassicism that characterizes the core of works from a Roman residence. While elegant 18th- and 19th-century furniture from renowned Turin gallery owner Pietro Accorsi distinguishes the furnishings of an elegant Genoese residence.

Further enriching the catalog is the rare Baroque night clock signed by maître-horologer "GioPietro Callin. Genoa" with its vivid painted dial, allegorical of the power of the ancient Maritime Republic, which ideally accompanies the splendid proportions of the important cloverleaf trumeau, a fine example of 18th-century Genoese cabinetmaking and, in this capacity, documented in Lodovico Caumont-Caimi's publication "L'ebanisteria Genovese del Settecento." Among the art objects is a charming wooden casket in pure Jugendstil masterfully decorated with dreamlike gilded copper depictions of characters from the Brothers Grimm fairy tales.

From Friday, April 14 to Monday, April 17, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., the works up for auction will be on display in the spaces of the maison's Genoa headquarters.