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towards new From the Far East, we move
toward the often dramatic
HoriZoNS history of old Europe.
The antique book
The year 2016 ended with a series of successes but it is already department announces
time to focus on the next season of auctions and we intend to an extremely valuable sale
do so with our sights firmly set on new frontiers with a variety with some extraordinary
of important changes. The watch sector, which attracted great rarities. We can reveal here
attention from collectors and traders at its debut sale, will in advance that one of
become a permanent department. Our march auction will these is the first edition
include some fine private collections of pocket watches and of the famous De Re
clocks as well as some examples of wrist watches with a few Militari, a military
extremely rare pieces including a Rolex Pre-Daytona in excellent treatise that Roberto
condition. Valturio dedicated to
sigismondo malatesta
Our antique furniture, paintings and objects department will in appreciation of his
also include a new speciality as it expands its horizon towards skills as a condottiero
southeast Asia. In fact, among the different items selected for in the mid-fifteenth
the spring auction, we will be presenting a collection belonging century.
to a passionate scholar of the Far East. It includes statues of
Indian divinities, bronze and stone depictions of Buddha from We too are getting fired up for the new season, safe in the
Thailand and Cambodia, Japanese lacquers and screens, Chinese knowledge that the market for collector’s items remains solid,
vases, jades and celadon pottery and much more. because these are not average objects but artistic and cultural
testimony to the past from which we all came.

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