Antoinetta Stelle: Portrait Photo ( Studio Fayer, Wien) hand signed.




The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

Size: 3,4 x 5,2 inches.

Antonietta Stella is an Italian operatic soprano, one of the finest Italian spinto sopranos of the 1950s and 1960s, possessing a beautiful and ample voice, and particularly associated with Verdi and Puccini roles.

Labels: Autograph, memorabilia, opera

Old Chinese seal, Qing Dynasty, 1893. The sides of the seal depict a scholar with a fan, followed by a huge bat.

Very fine cutting of the actual seal: „ Ting Ying Jiang Yue “ – The Pavillon and the Moon are reflected in the River.




Beautiful Shou Shan stone in warm gray tones. The pale gray part well used to depict the Scholar.

The artist’s name is engraved at the side of the seal, Bai Shi.

0,7 x 0,7 x 3,35 inches, 52 gram. Very fine condition.

Labels: chinese antiques, seal, wenfang si bao

Antique Japan Photograph: Albumen photo, thin paper, fixed on paper with small glue spots at he corners. The photo depicts two Japanese children, carried in a sedan by 2 men.




3,5 x 5,5 inches, sharp photo, fine condition, app. 1880.

Labels: Japan, photograph, vintage photo

Decorative, antique Japanese Albumen Photo, tinted, thin paper, fixed on paper with small glue spots at he corners. Fine condition.

Text in plate: 345 Amidaike Osaka.app. 1880.

The photo depicts Buddha statues at Amidaike temple.

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Labels: Albumen Photo, antiques, Japan, photography, vintage photo

Lovely old, white porcelain brush washer, actually a water dipper with spoon to add water on the ink stone for grinding the ink. It is in shape of a toad.



There is a red wax seal at the bottom, stating that it is antique. It has been certified by a Chinese authority in the 1970s.

Size; 2,5 x 1,4 x 1 inches.

Labels: chinese antiques, porcelain, wenfang si bao

Beautiful, Chinese Agate snuff-bottle with Jade stopper and spoon.



2,2 x 4 x 1,2 inches. 224 gram.

The snuff-bottle is app. 100 years old, the stopper has been added later

Nice structure of the stone, somehow resembling a landscape. Very fine condition.

Labels: chinese antiques, snuff bottle

Austrian bass Emil Scaria (1838 - 1886) made his début (1860) in Budapest as Saint-Bris (Les Huguenots). He made appearances in Dessau, Leipzig, and Dresden.





In 1863 he appeared with the Leipzig Opera; in 1864 he was working in Dresden. He was engaged by the Vienna State Opera in 1872.

From 1873 until his death Scaria was engaged at the Vienna Hofoper. While in London performing a Ring Cycle he suffered a mental breakdown. He continued to sing but in 1886 he again suffered a mental breakdown and soon after died insane.

Labels: CdV, history, vintage photo

Decorative chromo-lithograph from 1898, depicting images related to Baya. Artist signed: Ede Maes.




Published by Brockhaus, lithographed in Leipzig.

6,2 x 9,8 inches. Fine condition.
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Labels: chromo lithograph, decorative, litho, lithograph