Two panels illustrate the fable on “The Rooster and the Fox” the fifteenth of the book.
The other part illustrates “The Wolf and the Lamb” the tenth fable of Book I by Jean de La Fontaine.
Marotte in polychrome painted papier-mâché and glued printed paper, presenting a female figure with black hair and a scalloped bodice.
Paradise containing Virgin with Christ, Saint Sebastien, Marie Madeleine in the cave and Saint Jacques.
Carrare marble sculpture “Female divinity”.
Mannerist sculpture representing a naked woman, probably an element of a sculptural group.
Rare polychrome majolica inkwell in the shape of a foot with a Roman shoe.
Late XVI century
Deruta, Italy
“Pure Greek beauty, supple and dignified (…) who gazes with calm indifference at the crowds who gaze at him speechless.”
Reliquary in carved wood representing Saint Joseph.
A reliquary is an object intended to house relics. It allows the faithful to honor the relics, without risking damaging them, using an opening present on the face of the object
End of 18th century
Italy
At the end of the Middle Ages pottery villages around the town of Vindefontaine were born. They set up a large potter’s house, and made butter pots, pitchers, inkwells, vases, but above all potty sandstone fountains with brown enamel decorated with kaolin.
XVIII century,
West Normandy,
France.
Marotte in polychrome painted papier-mâché and glued printed paper, presenting a female figure with black hair and a scalloped bodice. Marked DANJARD L. Vincent Paris Patented in 1860 Successor, on the base.
Pair of large Neapolitan terracotta basins.
XIX century
Italy