Among the most important lots in the catalog is an important card table by Gaspare Bassani, Lombardy, c. 1790. The magnificent table is panelled, filleted and decorated with dense and minute inlays, both on the top and on the sides and legs, made of various precious woods, including, bois de rose, bois de violette, walnut, mahogany, natural and stained maple. The layout of this table, the construction of the legs, the type and richness of the inlays, and the very choice of ornaments and decorative motifs, are completely identical to the only piece of furniture to date attributed with certainty to Gaspare Bassani, namely, a card table dated 1789 and signed by this inlayer, from the Meli Lupi collection in Soragna (PR), which differs from ours only in the architectural subject in the center of the top.

Among the furniture items in the catalog are a core of Roman Baroque furniture, including a fine console table (Rome, 18th century) in carved and gilded wood, arched legs with shell-centered fitting, rocaille-decorated aprons, and coral-red breccia top; and a rare travel box with Carthusian-style decoration (northern Italy or Spain 15th-16th century).

Also prominent in the catalog is a heterogeneous collection of forty gouaches by Michelangelo Maestri (Rome, 1741, Rome, 1812), remarkable for their quality of execution and size, divided into twenty-two sheets, having as their main theme the Greek deities Apollo and Dionysus, along with depictions of Maenads and Muses. Exhibited in 2011 in the solo exhibition dedicated to the painter and draftsman of the neoclassical age, entitled "Michelangelo Maestri - The Breath of Memory," and published in the exhibition catalog, these works come from the collection of Ferruccio Franzoia.

"It is difficult to summarize in a nutshell the personality and genius of architect Ferruccio Franzoia and the great legacy of culture, knowledge and love of beauty that he passed on to all the people who had the good fortune to know and frequent him. [...] If in architecture, with a very sure hand, he solved the most difficult problems in the restoration and preservation of historic buildings, in antiques Ferruccio Franzoia had an unparalleled talent for advising friends and clients to choose the best to furnish their homes. It was precisely because of his innate ability to enhance every art object that some of the greatest antique dealers asked him to set up their stands in the most important exhibitions in Milan, Rome and Venice." - Marco Arosio, director of Cambi Auction House's 20th-century Decorative Arts Department, explains.

From the same collection come the other notable lots that give this sale the character of eclectic liveliness: a group of Carlo Rizzarda (Feltre, Jan. 23, 1883 - Feltre, May 4, 1931) lamps, an Italian artist and master ironworker specializing in the Art Nouveau style, characterized by the fascinating floral and naturalistic decorations.

"The architect was a direct nephew of one of the greatest protagonists of ironworking in early 20th-century Italy, Carlo Rizzarda, who dying at a very young age left the prototypes of all his work as a dowry to the city of Feltre. Ferruccio collected some of the most beautiful pieces now offered in this auction." - Marco Arosio continues.