Arcadia's first auction of the 2019 season featured antiques for sale, Antique and 19th Century Paintings, Furniture, Carpets and Silver. It took place on 20 March and achieved excellent results, both in terms of adjudications and percentage of sales. This confirmed the positive trend of the antiques and antique painting market, which appears stable and growing.
Silvia Vallini Celesti, director of the Antiques, Furniture, Art Objects and Silverware department of the auction house in Rome, comments thus on this latest auction curated by her department:
"We are pleased with the results obtained in the March auction, a sale that confirms the ever-increasing interest among antiques and antique painting enthusiasts and collectors for unpublished, quality objects that are difficult to find on the market. We always try to propose a wide and heterogeneous selection of antiques, antique paintings and art objects in our regular sales, which can offer unique and quality bargains to our customers."
The success of the antiques auction held in March 2019 is certainly also due to our new online platform, completely renewed in style and architecture, which allowed us to offer the first live auction in real time on the site. Arcadia Aste thus responds to the needs of its customers and meets the ever-growing need to follow the auction from any device, wherever they are, as if they were actually in the auction room.
Among the best bids in the antiques auction were the 18th century Roman School painting depicting the Mausoleum of the Plauzi and the Lucanian Bridge, which fetched €20,460; the walnut-root urn-shaped ribstand, which fetched €17,360; and the white marble fireplace adorned with inlaid panels depicting birds on branches with flowers and fruit, which quadrupled its starting estimate to fetch €6,200.
Also highly appreciated were the service of twenty-two silver dinner plates, which doubled its pre-sale estimate and fetched €7,936, the large print depicting the prospectus of the alma città di Roma designed and engraved by Giuseppe Vasi that far exceeded its initial estimate of €300 and sold to a customer on the phone for €4,464, as well as the pair of marble vases enriched with gilded bronze appliqués, both sold for €4,340.
The early 19th century still life in ceroplast, with an antique vase filled with carnations and dahlias, tripled its initial estimate and sold for €4,464, while the pair of red marble and gilded bronze flambeaux with flowering branch arms fetched €4,464.
Also finding a new home after a fierce series of bids were the gilded bronze and green marble triptych with a portico clock, which sold for €3,968, the painting depicting Europa and the handmaids adorning the bull, which sold at auction for €3,100, and the splendid silver vessel masterfully reproducing the Royal Navy's HMS Victory of 1765, which fetched €2,976.
Silvia Vallini Celesti, director of the Antiques, Furniture, Art Objects and Silverware department of the auction house in Rome, comments thus on this latest auction curated by her department:
"We are pleased with the results obtained in the March auction, a sale that confirms the ever-increasing interest among antiques and antique painting enthusiasts and collectors for unpublished, quality objects that are difficult to find on the market. We always try to propose a wide and heterogeneous selection of antiques, antique paintings and art objects in our regular sales, which can offer unique and quality bargains to our customers."
The success of the antiques auction held in March 2019 is certainly also due to our new online platform, completely renewed in style and architecture, which allowed us to offer the first live auction in real time on the site. Arcadia Aste thus responds to the needs of its customers and meets the ever-growing need to follow the auction from any device, wherever they are, as if they were actually in the auction room.
Among the best bids in the antiques auction were the 18th century Roman School painting depicting the Mausoleum of the Plauzi and the Lucanian Bridge, which fetched €20,460; the walnut-root urn-shaped ribstand, which fetched €17,360; and the white marble fireplace adorned with inlaid panels depicting birds on branches with flowers and fruit, which quadrupled its starting estimate to fetch €6,200.
Also highly appreciated were the service of twenty-two silver dinner plates, which doubled its pre-sale estimate and fetched €7,936, the large print depicting the prospectus of the alma città di Roma designed and engraved by Giuseppe Vasi that far exceeded its initial estimate of €300 and sold to a customer on the phone for €4,464, as well as the pair of marble vases enriched with gilded bronze appliqués, both sold for €4,340.
The early 19th century still life in ceroplast, with an antique vase filled with carnations and dahlias, tripled its initial estimate and sold for €4,464, while the pair of red marble and gilded bronze flambeaux with flowering branch arms fetched €4,464.
Also finding a new home after a fierce series of bids were the gilded bronze and green marble triptych with a portico clock, which sold for €3,968, the painting depicting Europa and the handmaids adorning the bull, which sold at auction for €3,100, and the splendid silver vessel masterfully reproducing the Royal Navy's HMS Victory of 1765, which fetched €2,976.