On Wednesday, November 29, Cambi Auction House brings back to the rooms of Castello Mackenzie in Genoa the art of mise en place dedicated to the pleasures of conviviality: it's the Art de la Table, a now traditional event of the maison, which "dresses" its historic venue with tables richly set with objects in precious materials and refined workmanship.

"Fine porcelain, silverware and precious glassware, finely embroidered tablecloths, everything you need to make elegant and refined tables," comments the Department of Majolica and Antique Porcelain, "A way of celebrating festive moments, a hymn to conviviality and the refinement of the 'mise en place.' In this auction entirely dedicated to the art of the table you will find fine services, the result of the mastery of the most important European Manufactures, antique and contemporary silverware, as well as fine examples of artistic glassware."

Among the 447 lots in the auction is the very colorful Marqueterie de Pierres dures d'Orient et d'Occident service by Hermès (estimate: €8,000 - €12,000), designed in 1989 and decorated with a wide variety of motifs, from flowers to birds, fruits and pearl necklaces, inspired by gemstone working during the Renaissance in Florence. An 8-person service from the Manifattura Ginori with the decoration-already introduced in the factory's first decade of activity-in "red countries" and framed with "cut eggs" on a blue band and golden vitalba garland (estimate: €12,000 - €24,000).

Alongside the porcelain services we find fine silverware such as the embossed, cast and chiseled silver coffee pot of c. 1770 by silversmith Zanobi-Biagioni (estimate: €6,000 - €7,000) and the centerpiece with tray by Argenteria artistica Stancampiano of Palermo (estimate: €6,000 - €7,000).

Prominent among the table linens, however, is a large linen tablecloth embroidered in Burano lace with rocailles and floral motifs, accompanied by 12 napkins (estimate: €2,800 - €3,800).

A section of the catalog is devoted to crystalware, such as a service of mouth-blown, carved and hand-engraved Thistle Gold chalices from the Saint Louis Manufacture, awarded the title of Verrerie Royale in 1767 by King Louis XV (estimate: €4,000 - €6. 000), and a rare Murano chalice service made for Queen Margaret of Savoy on the occasion of the 1942 exhibition that never took place: 14 mouth-blown and hand-crafted chalices with a polychrome enamel decoration featuring nymphs or vestals from classical antiquity among dense rocaille ramages (estimate: €5,800 - €8,000).

Absolute top lot of the auction is the 20th-century Meissen porcelain 12-piece service with Kakiemon-style decoration: the motif draws from their 18th-century models influenced by Japanese Arita porcelain in the Kakiemon style, already in use in the 1730s (estimate: €16,000 - €28,000).