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Description: Rectangular tablecloth in ecru linen with filet lace around the edges with phytomorphic and spiral motifs. Rectangular openwork centre with filet lace featuring the same pattern. Decorated corners. The particularity of this tablecloth is that the filet applications, both in the central part and along the edges, were made in a single piece.  Hence […]

Description: Modern table-centre made with the round filet technique: the tight mesh takes inspiration from the rose-windows that capture sunlight in the facades of Gothic churches in the Chiaramonte style in Sicily. This type of mesh is little known and has uncertain origins. It is believed that it dates as far back as ancient Egyptian […]

Description: Inspired by the ornaments used in the decoration of majolica tiles made in Santo Stefano di Camastra, the filet decorations were applied to make a prototype of a candlestick sconce using the most precious material, namely gold thread, creating unique effects and veiled transparencies. Thanks to the skill of the embroideresses who took on […]

Description: The creation of this scarf is the result of an unusual combination of a high-tech material that is difficult to work using the filet technique, namely extruded polyamide yarn, and precious materials such as red coral, scaramazza pearls and gold thread. The inspiration for this scarf was the sea recalling the remote origins of […]

Description: Ule Mask (the curly), IV century BC, brown clay, probably from Lipari. Large mask depicting an already elderly woman (a wife or a mother), popular among the characters of Menander’s plays. The face, quite full, is covered with a thick layer of whitish clay and is characterized by the large protruding eyes. The thick […]

Description: Krater of the so-called “bell-shaped type” for its characteristic shape, depicting a vibrant everyday scene on the main side: on the left an old, bony fishmonger, with a  big white head, while preparing to cut with a piece from a tuna with a knife resting on a stool, as requested by a customer who […]

Description: Tragic mask of the Katàkomos ochrà, greyish clay, IV century BC from Lipari. Much larger than the others, this mask is also one of the most expressive of the museum. It represents a young woman with a fine oval face with her mouth wide open and dull eyes. The woman, characterized by a complex […]

Description: Portrait of a Man by Antonello da Messina, oil on canvas dated 1465. An absolute masterpiece, the portrait is mentioned for the first time in 1860 in a letter of Cavalcaselle written from Termini Imerese to the owner, the Baron Enrico Pirajno of Madralisca as the only work of Antonello seen by the scholar […]

Description: Nautical chart in parchment of the Mediterranean of the first half of the XVII Century. Prezioso Portolano of 1643 of the cartographers Caloiro and Oliva.

Description: View of Cefalù, oil on canvas attributed to Francesco Bevelacqua (Cefalù 1814-1858). The canvas carries the traditional attribution to the painter of Cefalù whose small production (above all of portraits) features his only landscape.  Cefalù is represented from a very usual point of view to the illustrators of the city, since the earliest drawings […]