Hammer prices from a Munich glass sale, three auctions that have not yet produced a result, and museum and restitution news, 19–25 October 2026. Figures are those published by the source. Sales that have not yet taken place are marked as forthcoming.
Murano glass, with the hammer prices
Quittenbaum’s Murano sale, auction 183B, was held in Munich on 14 October 2026 at 15:00 CEST. The results list publishes hammer prices, not prices with the buyer’s premium. The house’s notes for buyers put that premium at 33 per cent including VAT, or 26 per cent plus VAT when the tax is shown separately. Unsold lots can be bought in a post-auction sale until 13 November 2026. Makers and techniques in the catalogue overlap the Murano glass guide.
The highest hammer on that list is lot 667, a footed cup a retortoli e a fili, catalogued as Venice or façon de Venise and probably seventeenth century. The page describes lightly tinted glass with fused bands, alternating white threads and mesh threads, height 21 cm, diameter 13 cm. It sold for €55,000.
Lot 686 is the cube vase the sale essay estimates at €7,000–9,000: Fratelli Toso, about 1932, model 8268, a tall cuboid with flattened shoulders, height 26.5 cm, red cased glass with dark violet spots, white underlay, and a dark-violet rim with burst gold foil. The lot page cites an identical piece in Marc Heiremans, Fratelli Toso, Stuttgart 2018, p. 59, no. 33. The hammer was €24,000. Lot 777, Alessandro Pianon’s Pulcino of 1962 for Vetreria Vistosi, height 22.5 cm, colourless and orange glass with fused crushed glass, murrine eyes and feet of bent copper wire, sold for €3,800. Lot 783, Ercole Barovier’s Athena Cattedrale case of about 1964 for Barovier & Toso, height 27.6 cm, sold for €3,400.
Lot 762 did not sell. It is Tobia Scarpa’s large Battuto vase of 1959–62 for Venini, height 45.5 cm, colourless and smoky-grey cased glass, engraved “venini italia 100/96”. The sale essay estimates it at €4,000–5,000. The lot page now places it in the post-auction sale at a reserve of €4,000.
Genoa bequest sale, not yet sold
Cambi’s live page for auction 1250, jewels, silver, furnishings and works of art from a charitable bequest, now dates the two live sessions to Wednesday 21 October 2026 in Genoa: 9:30 for lots 1–297, and 14:30 for lots 401–805. The printed catalogue still prints Wednesday 14 October for those sessions. The live lot list shows estimates and does not publish a sold price, so the sale has not produced a result. The second part, silver, furnishings and works of art, is listed from Monday 5 October to Thursday 22 October, and individual online lots carry closing times on 22 October. The printed catalogue had given that time sale as 5–15 October, lots 810–1108. Those Milan silver marks, including the fasces punch on pieces in this catalogue, are the subject of the silver hallmarks guide.
Florence and Vienna, still without a price
Gazette Drouot still lists Pandolfini’s auction 1459, furniture and works of art, for Wednesday 21 October 2026 at Palazzo Ramirez Montalvo in Florence: lots 1–86 at 11:00, and a further session at 15:00. It shows no sold prices. Pandolfini’s own site is offline for maintenance. The notice says the house is still working, that online participation is unavailable for the moment, and that online auctions are suspended until the site is restored. There is no price for the Lombard commodes or the Piedmontese wall lights noted last week. Case furniture of this kind is the subject of the furniture guide.
Dorotheum’s page for furniture, works of art, glass and porcelain still gives the auction as 20 October 2026 at 14:00 at Palais Dorotheum in Vienna, with 268 lots and the exhibition running 10–20 October. It does not publish a price. The pair of Righetti candelabra noted earlier is in that sale, which has not taken place.
A Canaletto drawing in Oxford, not yet sold
Mallams’ Picture Sale is a live auction in Oxford on Wednesday 21 October 2026 at 11:00 BST. It has not been held. Lot 244 is catalogued as Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto, A Capriccio of a ruined Renaissance Arcade and Pavilion by a Waterway crossed by a wooden Footbridge, a Round Tower beyond. Pen and brown ink with light grey wash, double black framing lines on Italian paper, the framing lines 37 × 53.3 cm. The reverse is inscribed “a Present from Sig Canal d Canaletti”. The catalogue calls the sheet previously unrecorded, says Charles Beddington confirmed it, and gives a possible descent from the musician Charles Burney. The Invaluable listing showed no bids and no sold price. Artnet, on 14 October, reported the estimate as £40,000–60,000. Where Venice sits in a collector’s visit is in the Italy destinations guide.
Three ovals back in a Mantuan church
On 16 October ANSA reported that three eighteenth-century oil paintings, stolen in 1978 from the church of Santa Maria del Rosario at Rodigo, in the province of Mantua, had been returned after 48 years. They are of the Tuscan school, titled L’orazione nell’orto di Getsemani, La flagellazione di Gesù and L’assunzione della Madonna, and they belonged to the fifteen ovals that decorated the altar of the Madonna of the Rosary. The Carabinieri cultural-heritage unit in Monza found them in September 2024 in the online catalogue of an auction in Munich. ANSA says the investigation, with the Diocese of Mantua, confirmed the illicit provenance, and that the prosecutor in Mantua ordered a preventive seizure. The paintings were recovered with the German authorities and Eurojust and brought back to Italy. The previous Sunday, after Mass, the Carabinieri handed them to the parish priest of Rodigo.
Searches for clandestine digging
On 14 October the Carabinieri cultural-heritage command reported operation Eridanos. The Rome unit, with the units in Venice, Udine, Monza and Bologna and provincial commands in Verona, Rovigo, Mantua and Rimini, carried out eight search warrants. The people searched are described as responsible, in various roles, for theft and receiving of cultural property and for unauthorised archaeological research. The inquiry was coordinated by the prosecutor in Verona. It began in March 2026 with web monitoring of a seller of freshly dug ancient coins, and a search on 15 June 2026 widened it. The communiqué places the digging in the Verona and Mantua areas and along the Canal Bianco in the Rovigo area, and describes a second outlet through a shop in the Mantua area.
The objects listed as recovered are 400 mosaic tesserae from a Roman pavement, 311 ancient coins, a bronze sculpture of Jupiter, 489 metal and ceramic finds including fibulae, bosses, rings and pottery fragments, 30 worked flints, five metal detectors, three pin pointers and digging tools. Finds from the ground are not ordinary stock: the buying and shipping guide sets out why archaeological objects belong to the State and cannot be exported on the strength of a receipt.
Begarelli terracottas cleaned at Polirone
Finestre sull’Arte reported on 13 October that three sixteenth-century terracotta sculptures by Antonio Begarelli, in the entrance vestibule of the basilica of the Abbey of Polirone at San Benedetto Po, had been restored: Adam, Eve, and David with the head of Goliath. They were to be presented on Friday 16 October 2026 at 17:00, at “La bellezza ritrovata”. The committee for the safeguarding and restoration of the town’s artistic heritage, chaired by Maurizio Lapponi, promoted the event. The magazine credits the idea to Patrizia Piccagli, and says a benefit recital by Enzo Decaro on 9 May, given without a fee, plus other gifts, paid for David as well as Adam and Eve.
Studio Billoni Restauro did the work, under Giuseppe Billoni with Rossella Buganza, and the basilica side was Giancarlo Pavesi and don Stefano Guerreschi. The account describes consolidation, cleaning, and the recovery of remaining original colour. On Adam and Eve, altered overpaint was removed and old fills were revised, with new fills kept small. The same consolidation and recovery of original finishes was done on the David group. The sculptures are terracotta with stucco and colour meant to suggest marble. Support named in the report includes Fondazione Comunità Mantovana, Fondazione Banca Agricola Mantovana, the municipality, and the superintendency for Cremona, Lodi and Mantua.
A Romanino on loan in Brescia
From 13 October 2026, Fondazione Brescia Musei has The Good Samaritan by Girolamo Romani, called Romanino, in room VII of the Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, the room given to private devotion. Fondazione Tassara bought the painting so that it could be seen by the public and lent it to the museum foundation. The museum counts it as the 27th work to enter the pinacoteca by purchase or deposit since 2019. It was shown in 2024 in Il Rinascimento a Brescia. Moretto, Romanino, Savoldo 1512–1552, which is when the plan to place it in the civic collection took shape. The original destination is unknown. In the eighteenth century it is recorded in the Maffei collection in Brescia. It now hangs with Romanino’s Saint Jerome and Christ carrying the Cross.
A Titian for Milan, opening this week
The Museo Poldi Pezzoli lists Un Tiziano per Milano from 22 October 2026 to 25 January 2027. A canvas by Titian that has never been shown to the public enters the museum on long-term loan from a private collector. The dossier exhibition, in the 450th anniversary of the painter’s death, is about his relationship with Milan. It has not opened, so this is a forthcoming display, not a completed run. Finestre sull’Arte, on 12 October, says the show brings together three autograph paintings and one historical copy, curated by Enrico Maria Dal Pozzolo and Lavinia Galli, and identifies the canvas as the Madonna and Child with the Magdalene, by Titian with an intervention by Girolamo Dente, about 1540–1550, oil on canvas, private collection. The museum is one of the stops a Milan visit can take in, beside the dealer streets in the Italy destinations guide.