Cambi Auction House reproposes on Tuesday, November 28, its appointment designed for collections related to specific residences. Protagonists of the new edition of Dimore Italiane are two distinct residences: an elegant Milanese apartment and a prestigious villa in the Venetian countryside, both exclusive places that have hosted small and large masterpieces of painting, sculpture, furniture elements and rare objects that tell of different historical periods but also of great and refined passions.

Organized in a single round starting at 3 p.m., the auction will be hosted in Castello Mackenzie, the maison's Genoese headquarters, and will feature 18th-century Genoese and Venetian furnishings, a core of 19th-century boulle furniture, mirrors, paintings and objets d'art including 18th- and 19th-century French bronzes.

Three in particular are the top lots in the furniture section: of Genoese provenance and dating from the 18th century are both the Louis XV dresser (estimate 13,000 / 18. 000 €) - panelled in rosewood and inlaid in bois de rose with a four-leaf clover motif that features a rounded front with three drawers, wavy sides and gilded bronze handles, spouts and slippers - as well as the diplomat's cartonnier - with rosewood and bois de rose inlays and fillets enriched by two side doors in the lower part and in the upper part d seven open compartments with gilded and chiseled bronze slippers at the base (estimate 3,000 / 5,000 €). Third rarity, the pair of carved and gilded wooden mirror cabinets with rich decorations of scrolls and floral elements, made in the 18th century in Veneto (estimate 5,000 / 7,000 €).

Regarding the category of artistic objects, pieces of extraordinary workmanship are the pair of candelabra made in France in the 18th century - in Blanc de Chine porcelain and gilded bronze - which is embellished in the center of the composition by depictions of two Pho dogs, from which the chiseled and pierced bronze mount with polychrome porcelain applied flowers branches off (estimate 10,000 / 13. 000 €); the pair of candelabra with female figures holding corbeille of flowers on half-column bases decorated with putti and whorls, whose style is inspired by the works of the famous French Neoclassical bronzesmith Francois Remond (Paris 1747-1812), offered at an estimate of 6. 500 / 7,500 €; and, again, the pair of candle burners (19th-20th century manufacture; estimate 3,000 / 4,000 €) embellished with elegant scenes and decorations in neoclassical taste both on the vase-shaped central body fitted with side handles and on the gray marble base.
Finally, also of extraordinary impact are the two cast, chiseled and patinated bronze horses (Baroque art, early 17th century) of small dimensions (16 by 9 by 20 centimeters), offered with an auction base of 4,000 / 6,000 € each and made by an Italian foundryman follower of Giambologna.

Turning instead to the paintings offered in this appointment, of note are the pair of oils on canvas (estimate 10,000 / 15,000 €) depicting genre scenes and signed by Alessandro Magnasco known as Lissandrino (Venice, 1712-1793), one of the most original painters of his century, and the delicate Ritratto di fanciullo con cagnolino, oil on canvas (estimate 7,000 / 9. 000 €) dated and signed at the lower right of the painting by Lavinia Fontana (Bologna,1552 - Rome, 1614), an Italian painter of the late Mannerist period, remembered as the first woman to have painted an altarpiece with a religious subject (an Assumption of the Holy Bridge for the altar of Imola cathedral), which, in 1584, was requested of her on a public commission by the city council of the Romagna town.