Two auction appointments dedicated to the world of antiques – Furniture and Paintings and Silver and Russian Art – will take place at Palazzo Crivelli between 24 and 26 March 2026, offering a journey through more than seven centuries of art history.
An early example of a work of art in its sense as a rarity is the album of drawings once owned by the renowned Milanese printer Giuseppe Vallardi, dedicated to the artist Giuseppe Bossi (lot 114, €90,000–100,000).
Offered at auction for the first time, the substantial volume contains three works now attributed to Andrea Appiani. The top lot of the sale, the collection offers an extraordinary glimpse into the creative fervour that animated the halls of the Brera Academy in Neoclassical Milan.
Lot 114
Giuseppe Bossi (Busto Arsizio 1777 - Milano 1815) e Andrea Appiani (Milano 1754 - 1817), "GIUSEPPE BOSSI / MILANESE / Questi disegni da lui eseguiti / a testimonio / dell'alta erudizione e filosofia / nell'arte in cui fu maestro / e a grata riconoscenza / GIUSEPPE VALLARDI / raccolse / l'anno MDCCCXXI". Album containing 380 drawings of various sizes collected by Giuseppe Vallardi (Milan, 1784 - 1861), three of which have been traced to Appiani: sheet 70, no. 263; sheet 100, no. 377 (?); sheet 106, no. 386 (56.5x73x7.5 cm approx.).
Estimate € 90.000–100.000
Another collection of exceptional interest emerges in the so-called “towers of strength” produced by German turners of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (lots 88–89–90–92–93). With their concentric spheres carved from a single block of ivory, these objects appear to defy the laws of physics (e.g. lot 93, €13,000–15,000), earning them the popular nickname Teufelswerk (“the devil’s work”).
Lot 92
Carved and turned ivory cup with lid, decorated with two polyhedra containing smaller polyhedra and a finial featuring a crescent. Germany, late 17th century (cm 8×65).
Estimate € 13.000 - 15.000
Lot 93
Turned and carved ivory tower with two hollow polyhedra containing smaller polyhedra, gadrooned base. Germany, 17th century (cm 12×61).
Estimate € 13.000–15.000
The expressive intensity of the Donna Dolente by the Neapolitan sculptor Giovanni Marigliano the Younger (attrib.) (lot 111, €9,500–10,000) fuses psychological introspection with technical virtuosity into a single and powerful sculptural presence.
Equally refined is the table clock by the Bavarian clockmaker Samuel Haug (lot 110, €7,000–8,000), made in Augsburg at the beginning of the seventeenth century.
Textile art is celebrated in a fifteenth–sixteenth century Oudenaarde tapestry (lot 107, €12,000–15,000), featuring an elegant Feuille de Chou (“cabbage leaf”) composition in shades of blue and bearing the heraldic coat of arms of the Ubaldini-Chigi family.
Lot 111
Giovanni Marigliano the Younger (called Giovanni da Nola) (Nola, 1488 - Naples, 1558) (attr.) "Donna dolente". Carved and polychrome-painted wood sculpture (cm 53×67) on a fluted column base with Corinthian capital in wood on a squared plinth (cm 43×119×33).
Estimate € 8.000 - 12.000
Lot 110
Samuel Haug (1580-1637). Augusta, early 17th century. Brass and gilded copper clock with square-based tower case. At the front two silver dials, for the hours and for the quarters of an hour, decorated with cloissonné enamel. At the back two more dials of the same type to indicate the various phases of the ringtone. On the side there is an alarm clock (h. cm 36).
Estimate € 7.000–8.000
Lot 107
Oudenaarde Manufacture, 15th–16th century. Feuille de Chou tapestry with the heraldic coat of arms of the Ubaldini-Chigi family at the corners of the border (328 × 272 cm).
Estimate € 12.000–15.000
A notable group of panel paintings features in the Old Master Paintings section, including the eloquent example of thirteenth-century Gothic painting offered by Deodato Orlandi’s Maestà Enthroned (lot 108, €10,000–12,000). This is followed by a Catalan work attributed to Jaume Huguet (lot 97, €10,000–12,000) and the Holy Family with the Infant Saint John by a Tuscan master (lot 109, €12,000–14,000), whose brilliant fluorescences fully convey the emotional tension typical of Florentine Mannerism.
Lot 108
Deodato Orlandi ( Lucca 1260 - 1330 ), Madonna enthroned with the Child ("Maestà"), tempera and gold on panel (97x64.5 cm.)..
Estimate € 10.000–12.000
Lot 97
Jaume Huguet ( Valls 1412 - Barcellona 1492 ) (attr.), "Virgin Enthroned with Child and Angels", tempera and gold on reinforced moulded panel (maximum dimensions 109x85 cm.).
Estimate € 10.000–12.000
Lot 109
Tuscan master of the mid-16th century, "Holy Family with the Infant Saint John", oil on panel with old support battens (96.5x71.5 cm.)..
Estimate € 12.000–14.000
Other highlights of the catalogue include the rich maritime panoply by Francesco della Questa (lot 113, €20,000–25,000) and the myth of Poseidon and Andromeda painted along the case of a Venetian polygonal spinet (lot 66, €13,000–14,000).
Lot 113
Francesco della Questa ( Napoli 1639 - 1723 ), "The Fishermen's Dream (Still life with Fish, Turtle and Two Fishermen)", second half of the 17th - early 18th century, oil on canvas (175x230 cm.).
Estimate € 8.000–9.000
Lot 66
Six-sided polygonal spinet of the Venetian school of the second half of the 16th century.Estimate € 13.000–14.000
Offering a glimpse into seventeenth-century Genoese painting are the Magnascos: a dialogue between father and son, with Stefano’s Sacrifice of Isaac (lot 102, €8,000–10,000) set alongside the previously unpublished Washing of the Feet by Alessandro (lot 105, €9,000–10,000).
Lot 102
Stefano Magnasco ( Genova circa 1635 - 1672 ), "Sacrifice of Isaac" oil on canvas (109x142 cm.).
Estimate € 8.000–10.000
Lot 105
Alessandro Magnasco ( Genova 1667 - 1749 ) "The washing of the feet", oil on canvas (36x46 cm.).
Estimate € 9.000–10.000
The eighteenth century unfolds from the Arcadian landscapes of Francesco Zuccarelli (lot 96, €8,000–9,000) to the luminous theatricality of a monumental Venetian gilt-wood mirror (lot 40, €3,000–5,000).
Lot 96
Francesco Zuccarelli ( Pitigliano 1702 - Firenze 1788 ) "Arcadian landscape with shepherds and animals", oil on canvas (120.5x126.5 cm.).
Estimate € 8.000–9.000
Lot 40
Large 18th-century venetian mirror in carved, pierced, and gilded wood, decorated with volutes, leafy and floral scrolls, and mirror inserts; pediment surmounted by a feathered element. (160 x 300 cm).
Estimate € 3.000–5.000
The refined craftsmanship of the early decades of the twentieth century is represented by Alfredo Ravasco’s agate box (lot 103, €7,000–8,000) and by a centrepiece surmounted by a majestic architectural structure in silver and lapis lazuli (lot 501, €3,500–4,000).
Lot 103
Ravasco Alfredo ( Genova 1873 - Ghiffa 1958 ) Rectangular agate box with hinged lid, decorated with a scorpionfish in silver with polychrome enamels; silver-mounted frame with engraved signature. Circa 1940 (cm 21×10×11).
Estimate € 7.000–8.000
Lot 501
A silver and lapis lazuli centerpiece of architectural design, with a shaped base and six columns topped by full-round allegorical figures. At the center, a large agate bowl supported by corded motifs on pierced scroll supports; on the sides, two putti on opposing pierced scroll bases. Milan, early 20th century. Silversmiths Fratelli Broggi (cm 52x27×35).
Estimate € 3.500–4.000