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 176
FABRIC SAMPLES Japan, 19th century
Made of a number of fragments of silk in various shapes and sizes, in different colours and decorative motifs, glued to the pages of a book. Book 13.58 x 10.24 in. Woodworm damages.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 550
Lot 177
THREE FABRICS Japan, early 20th century
Canvassed on wooden frames, they have a blue background and decorations of flowers and birds stylised in white. 59 x 59 in. 60.63 x 47.64 in. 56.69 x 50.39 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400
Lot 178
A TRUNK FOR MANUSCRIPTS Burma, Mandalay period, 19th century
Lacquered and gilded wood, this trunk features extensive gold decorations on the front and two sides with botanical patterns and apsaras. The racemes frame the larger Buddha figure while the upper and back
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Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 1.000
Lot 179
A TRUNK South-East Asia, 19th-20th century
Wood covered with gilded metal, this trunk manifests a rich botanical decoration interrupted by small ovals, perhaps intended to hold inlays made of a different material. 11.81 x 18.90 x 27.56 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 500
Lot 180
A LARGE TRAY Burma, 19th-20th century
Circular shape, in wood with red lacquer inside, gilded on the outer perimeter; worked in relief and embellished with glass inlays. Diameter 26.98 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 200
Lot 181
A BASIN (TARAI) Japan, 19th century
Wood with a dark lacquered background. It has circular form and rests on three bracketed feet. On the outside there are three ridges, two towards the bottom and one nearer the opening, that encircle the entire perimeter. Stylised
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Starting price: € 300
Lot 182
A BRAZIER (HIBACHI) Japan, 19th-20th century
Copper with a more or less square shape, it is positioned inside a lacquered wooden container, covered on the outside with a dense mosaic of iridescent mother-of-pearl flakes. On two sides there are also ogival-shaped handles.
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Starting price: € 200
Lot 183
A BRAZIER (HIBACHI)
Japan, Meiji period (1868-1912) Bronze with a spherical form, it rests on ring-shaped foot and has the mouth shaped in six ogives similar to the shape of a floral corolla. On the outside, between the shoulder and the middle of the body, there is a
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Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 184
A BRAZIER (HIBACHI)
Japan, Meiji period (1868-1912) Bronze, the circular section is very large towards the shoulder. It rests on ring feet and has large circular mouth. Decorated on the outside with glimpses of lanscape inserted in series of shell-shaped labels. It is
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Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 185
A PAIR OF BRAZIERS (HIBACHI)
Japan, Meiji period (1868-1912) Brass with a circular section, they are set into wooden paulownia containers that show the natural veins of the trunk on the outside. The decoration, done freely on the surface, consists of a wooden fence and
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Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 500
Lot 186
A BLACK LACQUERED SIGN WITH INSCRIPTION PAINTED IN GOLD China, probably Hong Kong, early 20th century
Wooden panel mounted in a frame and painted in black, gold and red. In relief the Chinese auspicious characters xiang yi hang, which mean “profitably and prosperous
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Starting price: € 200
Lot 187
A RED LACQUER PANEL WITH INLAID MOTHER-OF-PEARL WRITING China, early 20th century
Red lacquer on a black ground with inlaid mother-of-pearl writing. Painted black on the back. Original iron handle. The red lacquer film is crackled. 18 x 24.61 x 0.39 in. An aphorism is
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Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400
Lot 188
TWO PAIRS OF LACQUERED TABLE SCREENS, PAINTED AND INLAID WITH MOTHER-OF-PEARL
Chinese panels with a European mount, 18th-19th Century Painted in gold, black, and red, with mother-of-pearl inlays on a brown lacquer base. The panels with ornate floral fretwork motifs at
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Starting price: € 600
Lot 189
FOUR PANELS OF A COROMANDEL SCREEN
Southern China, Qing dynasty, second half of the 19th Century Wooden screen decorated with the kuancai technique (“incised colours”), known in Europe by the name coromandel. The front illustrates a scene of soldiers attacking a palace
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Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 800
Lot 190
TWO TRAYS
Japan, Meiji period (1868-1912) Both in wood and square, the smaller one has the letters CC Intertwined in the centre around four groups of flowers, in a decoration that combines the use of gold applied in maki-e with mother-of-pearl, stone, and coloured ivory
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Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 450
Lot 191
A TABLE GAME Japan, 19th-20th century
Wood with black lacquer, this chessboard is brightly decorated on the outer sides with vegetal patterns in gold maki-e with its storage box. 1.99 x 4.72 x 3.94 in. Lot accompanied by export license.
Starting price: € 200
Lot 192
A TRAY Japan, 19th century
Wood with black lacquer finish, this tray has a rectangular shape and rests on bracketed feet located at the four corners. The lower profile is wavy. The elegant gold decoration in maki-e covers the entire surface and consists of vines of
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Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 400
Lot 193
A SET OF EIGHT LACQUERS Japan, 19th-20th century
Comprising a rectangular tray and a covered box from the Meiji epoch, the first has a dark red background decorated in gold with a scene of sparrows flying admist bamboo, the second has a black background decorated in
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Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400
Lot 194
A MIRROR (EKAGAMI) WITH ITS BOX AND SUPPORT
Japan, Meiji period (1868-1912) Bronze with patina, it has a circular form with a handle covered in bamboo. The unreflecting side is decorated in relief with an aquatic landscape in which there are cranes, a turtle and a pine
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Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 195
A TRAY (KÕBON) AND THREE BOXES WITH LIDS (TAKIGARA-IRE) Japan, 19th century
Lacquered wood is decorated in gold in maki-e with phytomorphic spirals; in one of the boxes the spirals are intertwined with a heraldic coat-of-arms made of stylised leaves. Tray 1.57 x 15.35 x
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Starting price: € 200
Lot 196
THREE BOWLS AND TWO LIDS
Japan, 19th Century Lacquered wood, on the outside in black and inside with red. These bowls are very finely decorated in with gold in maki-e and kirikane with motifs of rocks, camellias, and bamboo, amidst which a heraldic coat-of-arms within a
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Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 197
A SET OF TWO LACQUERS Japan, 19th century
These are a support for tea cup and a box for ashes with its lid (takigara-ire), decorated in gold in maki-e with vegetal patterns and heraldic coats-of-arms. Support height 4.33 in. Box height 2.75 in. Lot accompanied by export
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Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 200
Lot 198
A SMALL SIDEBOARD (ZUSHIDANA) Japan, 19th century
Lacquered wood sumptuously decorated with gold, these four shelves are supported by four bracketed legs. Part of the space between the first and second and second and third from the bottom is closed by two doors. The
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Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 199
THREE-PIECE CORNER CABINET Japan, 19th-20th century
Lacquered wood, worked in relief with vines and flowers of chrysanthemums. 30.31 x 20.47 x 11 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 200
A HIGH ALTAR TABLE
China, Qing dynasty, 18th-19th Century Soft wood with traces of paint, red for the load-bearing parts and the surface, green for the decorative frontal frieze, carved in relief and fretwork with ornamental dragon motifs. Paint is very worn, the right
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Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400