FURNITURE, PAINTINGS, WORKS OF ART
The auction includes three collections of oriental art from China, Japan and South East Asia, fine furniture, works of art and a fine selection of paintings from private collections
Part 1, Asian Art from the 2nd to the 20th Century 10.30 am | lots 1-321
Part 2, European Art and Oriental Carpets from the 14th to the 19th Century 3.00 pm | lots 322-690
VIEWING from Saturday 20 May to Wednesday 24 May 10 am/1 pm - 2 pm/6.30 pm (Sunday included) - Sala Bolaffi, via Cavour 17, Torino
Lot 477
A PAIR OF EBONIZED WOOD ARMCHAIRS 20th Century
With fluted scrolled armrests, on fluted tapering legs, upholstered in velvet. 36.81 x 25 x 18.50 in.
Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 250
Lot 478
A GREY PAINTED AND CARVED WOOD ARMCHAIR France, mid-18th Century
With moulded back and S-scrolled armrest, on cabriole legs. Illegibly marked. 35.23 x 25.59 x 19.68 in.
Starting price: € 800
Lot 479
AN IVORY AND MOTHER OF PEARL INLAID TABLE Probably Middle East, 19th Century
Entirely inlaid with geometrical decorations, the legs jointed by a double-crossed stretcher. Damages and breaks. 31.10 x 38.97 x 24.01 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 700
Lot 480
A “KARATCHOP” KAZAK RUG South West Caucasus, first half 20th Century
Overall very good condition. 94.49 x 68.90 in.
Starting price: € 2.000
Lot 481
A “KASIM USHAG” RUG
Karabagh, South Caucasus, about 1900 Thick pile in good condition, some scattered wear, corroded bronws. 110 x 67.71 in.
Starting price: € 1.500
Lot 482
A BAKSHAISH RUG
North West Persia, about 1890 Overall good pile, short fringes. 157 x 115 in.
Starting price: € 8.000
Lot 483
A SCENE WITH CHERUBS Probably 18th Century
Gouache on paper on canvas, probably a sketch for a fresco painting. The scene with cherubs reminds to baroque patterns, and it’s painted in grisailles on a green background. Damages due to humidity. 25,59 x 33,46 in.
Starting price: € 250
Lot 484
A SOPRAPORTA PANEL Probably 18th Century
Gouache on board, probably a sketch for a sopraporta. The scene depicts a landscape framed in trompe l’oeil with ruins and figures, centered by a greek with volutes, acantus and flowers. 26.38 x 39.37 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 485
A PANEL WITH FRIEZE In 18th Century
style Gilded wood on a green background, the frame with a green passepartout, fillet in gilded wood and marbled margin. 28.94 x 40.16 in.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 250
Lot 486
A TAPESTRY Probably Germany, early 16th Century
Wowen in wools and silk. Depicting the Virgin and the child framed in architectures and ramages on a red background. 88.58 x 53.15 in. Provenienza / Provenance Monastero della regione di Bruges. Bibliografia / Literature
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Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 4.200
Lot 487
A WALNUT COFFEE TABLE In 17th Century
style A front drawer, with ‘barley twist’ carved and turned legs 21.65 x 67.32 x 24.40 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 488
A SET OF FOUR PAINTED AND GILT TOLE WALL LIGHTS Piedmont, 19th Century
Each with two scrolling arms cast with leaves and flowers. Damages and losses. 14.76 x 9.84 in.
Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 600
Lot 489
A CARVED, PAINTED AND GILT WOOD MIRROR FRAME Probably first half of 18th Century
Rectangular, shaped, with rocailles and foliage scrollings. Damages and losses to the gilding, with later period mirror. 26.37 x 22.83 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 490
A “KARATCHOP” KAZAK RUG
South West Caucasus, about 1880 Fair condition, some wear, flat brown wool selvages. 104 x 46 in.
Starting price: € 1.500
Lot 491
A DOOR PANEL Piedmont, 19th Century
In chinoiserie lacquered wood with landscapes and figures painted in green on a crème ground. 80.31 x 38.18 x 5.51 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 492
A CARVED AND PAINTED WOOD BOX Piedmont, 18th Century
Rectangular, a floral decoration on light blue ground. Damages and breaks. 5.71 x 14.37 x 10 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 200
Lot 493
A MORTAR WITH ITS PESTEL 19th Century
in 17th Century style In brown patina bronze, bell shaped, a garland on the body with faun heads masks clasps, handles shaped as caryatids, a foliate and a threaded band, and the inscription MCDXXX – GB A on the body. 8.27 x 10.16
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Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 200
Lot 494
A COUPLE OF PANELS Italy, probably Tuscany, 11th-13th Century
Concrete, rhomboidal, contoured, the edge with mask clasps. One depicts the siren with a forked tail, the other one a feminine mythological figure. Very consumpted. 9.45 x 9.45 x 3.75 in. Bibliografia /
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Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400
Lot 495
A STONE GARGOYLE Italy, probably 19th Century
In shape of a lying dog, with the open mouth used as a drain hole. 11 x 20.47 x 7.87 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 600
Lot 496
A NEW AND CORRECT MAP OF THE WORLD, HERMANN MOLL London, late 18th Century
Etching with coeval coloring on two joined sheets. Restored tears and losses. 24.41 x 39.76 in.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 1.200
Lot 497
A WALNUT CUPBOARD Northern Italy, 17th Century
and later With two upper drawers and two panels, the drawers separated by foliated capitals, on paw feet. Accompanied by export licence. 44.09 x 57.48 x 20 in.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 1.000
Lot 498
SCUOLA RUSSA DEL XIX secolo
Gouache on board. Iscribed in red with greek alphabet. Cracles of the pigment, gildening partially fallen. 18.90 x 14.56 in.
Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 8.500
Lot 499
A WALNUT TURNED BALAUSTER TABLE Probably Piedmont, late 17th Century
and later With rectangular top, a front drawer, ‘barley twist’ carved and turned legs, with a high threaded band, jointed by a turned balauster stretcher, on ball feet. Alterations. 32.48 x 43.31 x 25
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Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 600
Lot 500
A WALNUT CHOIR STALL Probably Piedmont , 18th Century
With moulded back. Damages. 41.73 x 29.13 x 18.50 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 600
Lot 501
A PAIR OF THREE LIGHTS GILT BRONZE WALL LAMPS Probably Piedmont, 19th Century
in the 18th Century style With foliate scroll arms. Regilded. 18.50 x 13.58 in.
Starting price: € 300