A rare Italian baroque large red leather with gilt tooled ornements chalice box holding the coat or arms of Pope Benedict XIV Lambertini ( Pope from 1740 to 1758 ) in very good condition.

It opens in two with four little metal hooks.

A close example is in the collections of the Vatican Museums and of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris.

Height 33 cm ( 13 inches ) x diameter 23 cm ( 9 inches ) 

A French gaming purse ( also called : Dévolu) in red velvet embroidered in gold thread , lined in calfskin, with a coat of arms of three fleurs de lys surmounted with the crown of an earl and the lambel for a younger son.
Maybe for the counts of Estaing of the counts of Razilly in Anjou.

French, mid-18th century.

Diameter 13 cm ( 5 1/4 inches )

The gaming purses were used among others for playing cards at the court of Versailles .

An unusual set of four Italian baroque painted and parcel gilt palatial chairs with extraordinary shape.

The embroisered top with closed crowns , flowers and birds is original.

Probably from the southern part of Italy, Sicily or Naples

Height 117 cm ( 46 inches ) x Width 61 cm ( 24 inches ) x Depth 50 cm ( 20 inches )

A good size Rococo Neapolitan silver holy water bucket or Secchiello with its handle and ring , the front showing an image of the crowned Virgin Mary with the signs MV SSS, with various hallmarks 

In excellent condition.

Height 14 cm ( 5 1/2 inches ) x width 17 cm ( 6 3/4 inches ) x depth 13 cm ( 5 inches) Diameter of the base 8 cm ( 3 inches) 

A pair of Chinese export Qianlong period mandarin decoration double sided gourd shaped vases , with landscapes animated with people ,late 18th century , in very good condition, now on gilt wood bases and mounted as lamps

Height of vases 30 cm ( 12 inches ) x width 15 cm ( 6 inches)

Height with giltwood base 33 cm ( 13 inches)