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DAVID VINCKEBOONS (1576-1632)

Estimate: € 12000-15000

Sale February 17: Winter Tales pt. 2

Saint James the Greater as murderer of the Mauretanians. Carved walnut. Traces of polychromy and gilding. Original bit and horseshoes. Assembled in two parts. Iron javeling, horseshoes and bit. Spanish work, circa 1800. Mauretanian missing. Free interpretation of the sculpture located at the Palacio Rajoy in Santiago de Compostella.

Estimate: €3500-4500

Sale February 18, 2021: Charity Auction - Caluna

GIANNI BERTINI (1922 - 2010) Tchernouchka et Bellérophone, 1961. Canvas. Signed 'G. Bertinni'. Signature, title and date 1961 on the reverse.

Estimate: € 500-600

Sale February 18, 2021: Charity Auction - Caluna

ALEXANDER KEIRINCKX (1600-1652)

A wooded landscape with the Good Samaritan. Panel. Monogram ‘AK’. Panel mark on the reverse. 140 x 180 cm

Estimate: € 30000-40000

Sale February 16-17 2021: Winter Tales pt. 2, Old Master Paintings & Antiques

MARCEL BROODTHAERS (1924-1976)

Exceptional ensemble of orig. manuscripts for 12 'Lettres Ouvertes', 1968 - 1970. Broodthaers published these open letters in a small edition and sent them to members of the art world, often commenting on the social context of the art in his time. Most of them are also closely related to his large scale project, the 'Musée d'Art Moderne, Département des Aigles'.

A collection of archeology

Sale February 17: Winter Tales pt. 2

Estimate: € 100-150

Result: € 4000

Sale December 8-9: Winter Tales pt. 1, Old Master Paintings & Antiques

A water dropper in the shape of a pixie. Greyish jade. 20th-century Chinese work. Ironwood plinth.

Estimate: € 800-12000

Result: € 13000

Sale December 8-9: Winter Tales pt. 1, Old Master Paintings & Antiques

A tapestry with Aeneas carrying his father Anchises from the burning city of Troy with his son Ascanius. Wool and linen. Second half 17th century. Brussels or Enghien. Traces of wear.

JOHAN GEORG PLATZER (1704-1761)

Estimate: € 8000-12000

Result: € 45000

A pair of two pendant paintings. Elegant figures at an outdoor concert and elegant figures playing cards in an interior. Panel. Provenance: The Meates Collection, by whom offered Sale, Christie's, London, 14 February 1835, lots 48 and 49 (bt. Patishale) Sale, Sotheby's, London, 4 December 1997, lot 235 Sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, 29 September 2004, lot 300 Sale, Christie's, London, 3 December 2008, lot 231 With Galerie d'Art Saint-Honoré, Paris Private Collection, Southern Germany Sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, 15 October 2013, lot 573 (sold for €110,100) Private Collection, Belgium At the time of the 2013 sale, Dr. Christina Pucher confirmed the attribution to Johann Georg Platzer and proposed a date of before 1740. She also suggested that the Outdoor concert could be interpreted as An Allegory of the Five Senses. A variant of this composition, without the figure of the young servant boy on the right, was formerly in the Georg Shäfer Collection, Schweinfurt. A version of Elegant figures playing cards in an interior also appears in the Georg Shäfer Collection, Schweinfurt, and a further variant appeared on the German art market in 1992 and again in 2008.

Estimate: € 10000-15000

Result: € 10000

Sale December 8-9: Winter Tales pt. 1, Old Master Paintings & Antiques

An attractive French Empire ormolu chariot mantel clock, circa 1810. Flat bottomed anchor movement with skeletonized frontplate, countwheel striking on a bell, lacking silk suspended pendulum, fleur-de-lis hand, 12.5-cm chapter ring with gilt-lined arched white cartouche Roman numerals, the centre with elaborate spokes forming the wheel of a classical chariot pulled by two lively stags surmounted by the seated figure of Diana hunting, the canted base adorned with hunting trophys and a scene depicting a boar hunt, the whole raised on six claw feet, the bronzework of very good quality.

FRANCINA LOUISE SCHOT (1816-1894)

Estimate: € 5000-6000 Result: € 5000

Sale December 8-9: Winter Tales pt. 1, Old Master Paintings & Antiques

Francina Louise Schot is born in Rotterdam in 1816. It is very unclear where she gets artistic schooling, but we know that she exhibits her work for the first time in 1835, being only nineteen years old at the time. Remarkably, she’s allowed to do that for the Living Masters exhibition in Rotterdam. Her paintings depict mostly exuberant and very detailed still lives, with colourful flowers, fruits and hunted down wildlife. In this painting we can enjoy her significant competence in displaying natural textures and the incidence of light. The flowers are freshly picked, still in full bloom, and the peel of the fruits still has a wax layer on it. The scene is illuminated from the left hand side and connected with the outside world by the allusion of a window. Schot’s aesthetically pleasing canvases are inspired by her walks through her French husband Pierre Henri Martin’s rose gardens. When she turns thirty, she’s appointed honorary member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam and her work gets raving reviews in well-known art journals.

Empire salon garniture

Estimate: € 10000-15000 Result: € 10000

Sale December 8-9: Winter Tales pt. 1, Old Master Paintings & Antiques

*EMILE GALLE (1846-1904) & GUSTAVE-ROGER SANDOZ (1867-1943)

Estimate: € 20000-25000

Sale February 16-17 2021: Winter Tales pt. 2, Old Master Paintings & Antiques

Emile Gallé, born in Nancy in 1846, is known as one of the most innovative and competent glassworkers to exist. Gallé’s style and technique heralds a proverbial renaissance of the French glass craft. In an ingenious way, he implements colouring techniques and juxtapositions of opaque and transparent glass. He accomplishes special colour effects by chemical processes with acids.

Gallé’s favourite theme to play out is nature. He emerges as an initiator of Art Nouveau in glassware art. Distinctive for his work are the decorative elements with a lot of true-to-life plants or animals, often carrying a symbolical meaning, like the rose which signifies the beauty of life. Not only his decorations, but also the general forms of Gallé’s works are based on nature. It’s all very organic, and the asymmetry and frivolousness of Rococo and later also the Islamic and Japanese decorative arts shimmer through.

He doesn’t shy away from innovative collaborations. This vase is the result of a conjunction of Gallé’s and Gustave-Roger Sandoz’ work at the end of the 1880’s. Sandoz is a successful Parisian goldsmith, jeweller and watchmaker. Together they make a very limited collection of luxurious objects, of which a very fine example is displayed here. Gallé’s organic lines are combined with Sandoz’ gilded work. The seemingly melting goldwork ‘drips’ over the multi-layered blown glass in various colours bleeding into each other, from mauve at the top to a more olive-like hue at the bottom. The glasswork shows a floral motive, etched as well as embossed. Gallé signs the work “Emile Gallé fecit”, and Sandoz does the same, applying “Gustave-Roger Sandoz. orfèvre à Paris”.

Antwerp cabinet. Work from the second half of the 17th century.

Estimate: € 5000-6000 Result: € 8500

Sale December 8-9: Winter Tales pt. 1, Old Master Paintings & Antiques

A pair of Chinese export famille-rose 'arbor' pattern plate circa 1740

Estimate: €3000 - €4000 Result: € 2600

Sale December 8-9: Winter Tales pt. 1, Old Master Paintings & Antiques

In the fourteenth century, Europe is introduced to the Chinese porcelain craft. The objects are seen as pure luxury: they’re pricey, rare and artisan-made. By the sixteenth century, the Portuguese establish a direct sea-route to the Far East, around the Cape of Good Hope. Between the sixteenth and the eighteenth century, some 300 million works of Chinese porcelain reach Europe. Encouraged by the blooming trade routes to Europe, Chinese craftsmen begin producing porcelain aimed solely at the European consumer. The objects are still made in the Chinese way, but in a more western fashion of style and decorative value.

These two plates are ordered by the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie. It’s one of four commissioned designs after drawings by Dutch draftsman Cornelis Pronk between 1736 and 1739. The plates are a clear example of the hybrid nature of Chinese export-porcelain. The central scene hovers between Chinese and chinoiserie. The decorated border fuses Chinese and European elements: flowers and butterflies combined with a shell-patterned background. The so-called famille rose-glazing technique has European roots and was introduced to the Chinese by the Jesuit missionaries. The Chinese however perfected the technique, and as a result the Chinese famille rose-porcelain was the most artistically refined work in eighteenth-century China.

HENRIETTE RONNER (1821-1909)

Estimate: € 15000-20000 Result: € 24000

Sale December 8-9: Winter Tales pt. 1, Old Master Paintings & Antiques

Henriëtte Ronner, being born in 1821 into an artistic family in Amsterdam, sells her first painting at just fourteen years old. Increasingly, she discovers she has a passion for depicting pets. This is how she achieves success: the countess of Flanders, among others, commissions Ronner to paint her lapdogs. From 1870 onwards, Ronner dedicates herself to painting cats nearly exclusively. Scenes of cats in rich interiors were very popular in the second half of the nineteenth century. She excels because of her high degree of specialisation and mostly because she can capture the “mysterious cat’s gaze” very aptly. In this painting too, she gives every cat a clear personality and emotion: the fiery kittens playing with wool, the curious little one preparing itself to jump at something outside of the canvas, the caring and maybe a bit fatigued mother cat. Not only the cats, but also the rich interiors they are situated in, are carefully depicted by Ronner.

SEBASTIAAN VRANCX (1573-1647) Antwerp winter with carnival scene. Canvas. 74.5 x 112.5 cm

Estimate: € 15000-20000 Result: unsold

Sale December 8-9: Winter Tales pt. 1, Old Master Paintings & Antiques

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