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 552
A PAIR OF NIGHT-SIDE TABLES Genoa, late 18th Century
and later Rosewood and kingwood marquetry inlaid, with two drawers, a rouge griotte marble top. Accompanied by photo-certificate dated 20/04/1968 by Giuseppe Rossi, Turin. 31.89 x 22.44 x 14.41 in. Provenienza /
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Starting price: € 2.000 | Sold for : € 3.200
Lot 553
AN ORMOLU CARTEL CLOCK, QUILLET À PARIS End of 18th Century
The case in cast and chased gilt bronze, surmounted by a vase, a wreath under the dial, centered by a lion mask. White enamel dial signed Quillet à Paris. Roman numerals and 5-minutes markers. Movement with
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Starting price: € 2.000 | Sold for : € 2.400
Lot 554
A DÉMI-LUNE COMMODE Turin, 1770 circa
With semi-circular grey marble top above three drawers and two side paneled doors, in rosewood, kingwood and boxwood, a trelliswork with gilt bronze flower head clips on the front frieze, on tapering legs and gilt bronze feet.
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Starting price: € 6.000 | Sold for : € 7.500
Lot 555
A SET OF FOUR CANED ARMCHAIRS Genoa, end of 18th Century
In walnut, with shaped caned back and seat, on fluted tapering legs. With silk lambrequins and fitted silk cushion. Damages to the silk 36.61 x 22.44 x 19.88 in.
Starting price: € 1.200 | Sold for : € 1.200
Lot 556
CARLO POLLONERA 1849-1923
Oil on board, oval, signed left recto. On the reverse label with the biography of the artist. 24 x 18.11 in.
Starting price: € 1.500
Lot 557
CHARLES GOMIEN 1808-1876 LA PRINCIPESSA MURAT
Oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right. Painted probably as a pendant for the portrait of the brother, the fifth prince Murat, they were both children of Gioacchino Giuseppe Napoleone Murat and Malcy Louise Caroline
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Starting price: € 3.000 | Sold for : € 6.500
Lot 558
SCUOLA LOMBARDA DEL XVIII secolo
Oil on canvas. Defects and restorations. 21.26 x 40.16 in.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 1.000
Lot 559
A WALNUT TURNED BALAUSTER SOFA Lombardy, early 18th Century
With large spiral curled armrests, moulded back and ‘barley twist’ carved and turned legs. Upholstered in olive green velvet. 44 x 88.58 x 31.50 in.
Starting price: € 700 | Sold for : € 1.000
Lot 560
A MARQUETRY ROSEWOOD AND KINGWOOD GUÉRIDON Late 19th Century
With filets in boxwood, circular, on tapering legs, the upper and lower tops with a geometrical decoration. Damages. 29.53 x 17.52 in.
Starting price: € 800
Lot 561
A WALNUT SLEIGH BED Half 19th Century
The head with curls, with reserves and knurls, threaded legs. Defects and restorations. 101.97 x 36.34 x 33.46 in.
Starting price: € 2.000 | Sold for : € 2.000
Lot 562
A SET OF FOUR WALNUT CHAIRS WITH BOW BACK Probably Veneto (Italy), late 18th Century
Carved, with foliated ribbon-tied back, the seat frieze beaded with rosace clips, on square fluted tapering legs. Defects and restorations. 36.61 x 19.29 x 17.32 in.
Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 600
Lot 563
A MAHOGANY SÉCRETAIRE À ABATTANT England, 19th Century
A frieze drawer above the fall front inlaid with four rosettes and three drawers below, with two side fluted ebonized wood Corinthian columns. Inside the fall front a central panel inlaid with a female figure,
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Starting price: € 700 | Sold for : € 1.200
Lot 564
AN ORMOLU AND PORCELAIN MOUNTED DESK SET France, 18th Century
and later On three feet, the cartouche shaped base in chinoiserie lacquered wood with gilt landscape on black ground, the gilt bronze rim with C foliate scrolls and rocailles feet. The chinoiserie inkwells
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Starting price: € 1.200
Lot 565
A POLYCHROME FAIENCE DISH Probably Southern Italy, mid-18th Century
On dark berettino ground, in the centre a shepherd and on the rim green and yellow flowers. Diameter 10.63 in.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 150
Lot 566
A MAIOLICA PITCHER Albisola, 16th Century
Painted in white and blue with insects and flowers patterns, in the middle of the body a band with the inscription ‘Sir del Ducha’. Damages and defects. Height 8.46 in.
Starting price: € 200
Lot 567
A WHITE AND BLUE MAIOLICA SMALL DISH Albisola, 18th Century
Centered by a baroque scene with a cherub. Defects and restorations. Diameter 5.90 in.
Starting price: € 350
Lot 568
A PAOLO FRANCESCO BRANDI MAIOLICA ANPHORA
Naples, 1681 Painted in white and blue, egg-shaped body, two large handles in the shape of winged harpies, decorated on the front with the scene of the Crucifixion, Mary Magdalene, St. John the Baptist and the Virgin Mary. On the
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Starting price: € 6.500
Lot 569
A LARGE TERRACOTTA POTICHE Piedmont, 18th Century
Painted and gilded with chinoiseries with birds, flowers and leaves on brown ground. Damages. Height 23.62 in. Provenienza / Provenance Collezione Eugenio Imbert, Milano.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400
Lot 570
BISCUIT GROUP 19th Century
Depicting a romantic scene on a rocks and flowers background. Restorantins, damages and losses. 9.64 x 7.48 x 6.06 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 2.000
Lot 571
A TERRACOTTA GROUP France, late 18th Century
Depicting Cupid carried in triumph by the nymphs. Breaks and losses. 12.20 x 5.71 in. Provenienza / Provenance Collezione Eugenio Imbert, Milano.
Starting price: € 400
Lot 572
ELEGANTE ÉCUELLE CON PIATTO IN PORCELLANA DURA
Manifattura di Sèvres, 1787 Con coperchio e piatto, a riserve con scene mitologiche in oro e bianco, su fondo porpora, le prese dorate fogliacee, il coperchio cimato da una melagrana dorata. L’écuelle 12 x 18 cm Il piatto
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Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 55.000
Lot 573
A SÈVRES HARD-PASTE PORCELAIN TWO HANDLES ÉCUELLE Third quart of 18th Century
With cover and stand, floral reserves on a blue and red small dots ground, ribbon shaped handles, the cover with foliate finial. Marked with DR initials, probably painter mark for Drand.
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Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 1.600
Lot 574
A SÈVRES SOFT-PASTE PORCELAIN DISH, ETHIENNE CHARLES LE GUAY III 1788
A rose garland on the rim, in the middle Mme de Montespan’s miniature enclosed in a gilt wreath and surrounded by a garland of roses and two bands, one green and one cobalt blue with marquis crowns.
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Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 1.100
Lot 575
A SÈVRES PORCELAIN ÉGOISTE TEA POT 1775
Golden mark of the painter Noel (1755-1804). Two reserves with flowers vases on blue-lapis background, cover with a yellow chrysanthemum finial. Height 4.13 in.
Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 1.400
Lot 576
A SÈVRES SOFT-PASTE PORCELAIN ÉGOISTE TEA POT 1763
With landscape reserves on blue background with gilted pois, the cover with rose finial. Height 5.12 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 1.500
Lot 577
A FRANKENTHAL PORCELAIN ÉGOISTE TEA POT 1762-1770
With two landscapes on body, depicting a shepherdess with dog and sheep, with blue flower garlands and purple bows on the rim and on the cover. A paper label under the cover ‘Questa antichità, Via Camerana 10 Torino’.
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Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 700
Lot 578
A PORCELAIN COFFEE POT Wien, 1770-1810
With grisailles landscapes and painted figures on the pear shaped body a fruit on the cover. The cover’s knob damaged and glued. Height 6.30 in.
Starting price: € 600
Lot 579
A GINORI PORCELAIN COFFEE POT 1774-1793
Pear-shaped, with mazzetto decoration on white background. Height 7.28 in.
Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 600
Lot 580
A SAMSON PORCELAIN PITCHER WITH BASIN Paris, 19th Century
With the Orléans army in an oval shield under a closed crown. Imari patterns, decorated with blue, red and golden reserves, the external rim of the basin with branches of peach. The pitcher height 12.210 in. Tha
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Starting price: € 900
Lot 581
A PAIR OF PORCELAIN TANKARDS AND ONE DIFFERENT Germany and Capodimonte (Naples), early 20th Century
The german pair commemorative, one inscribed ‘Bayer - Pionier - battaillon -III compagnie - Ingdstadt - 1911/1913’ with locomotive finial and the other ‘Feld - Artillerie
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Starting price: € 300
Lot 582
A PORCELAIN SMALL CUP WITH COVER
About 1820 Two oval reserves with marines and architectures on the body, blue and gold rims, cover with oval reserves with landscapes and ruins. Height 6.50 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 583
A PORCELAIN ÉGOISTE TEA POT Naples, late 18th Century
Cylindrical, two reserves with playng cherubs on green background. Height 3.74 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 500
Lot 584
A CENTRE TABLE 1840 circa
Olive root wood, circular, tripod, with folding top. Lacking of the top bolt. Damages and breaks. 30.71 x 38.58 in.
Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 600
Lot 585
A SMALL CENTRE TABLE 20th Century
in 18th Century style Entirely embossed in rosewood and rare woods, on cabriole legs. 28.54 x 16.93 x 12.99 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 586
A WINGS CENTRE TABLE Second half of 19th Century
In ebonized wood inlaid in rare woods, a front drawer, with two shaped wings on top, two gilted bronze masks centering both sides, gilt bronze mounted rims, legs joined with a carved stretcher. 29.13 x 43.11 x 20.27 in.
Starting price: € 500
Lot 587
MARC ALDINE 1875-1957
Oil on canvas, signed lower right recto. Label on the reverse of the Galleria d’Arte Bottisio of Turin. 22.05 x 25.59 in. Provenienza / Provenance Galleria d’Arte Bottisio, Torino.
Starting price: € 3.000 | Sold for : € 4.600
Lot 588
A BUREAU À ABATTANT Lombard-venetian, late 18th Century
In walnut, shaped, with scrolled pilaster mounts, three drawers under the fall front, fitted inside. Damages and losses. 48.23 x 68.31 x 27.56 in.
Starting price: € 2.500 | Sold for : € 2.500
Lot 589
GIACOMO GROSSO 1860-1938
Oil on board, signed lower left recto. Inscribed verso ‘Opera di mio padre il pittore Giacomo Grosso. Avv. Guglielmo Grosso’ and label ‘Mostra Postuma al Circolo degli Artisti di Torino. Giacomo Grosso nelle collezioni Torinesi, Torino 1960, n.
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Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 2.200
Lot 590
Attributed to GIACOMO GROSSO 1860-1938
Oil on canvas. 15.24 x 11.81 in.
Starting price: € 400
Lot 591
GIACOMO GROSSO 1860-1938
Oil on canvas, signed and dated upper left recto. 13.98 x 10.63 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 650
Lot 592
GIACOMO GROSSO 1860-1938
Oil on board. Inscribed verso ‘Dipinto nell’anno 1898 da mio padre il pittore Giacomo Grosso. Avv. Guglielmo Grosso’ and labels ‘Mostra Postuma al Circolo degli Artisti di Torino. Giacomo Grosso nelle collezioni Torinesi, Torino 1960, n. cat. 12’
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Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 2.400
Lot 593
GIACOMO GROSSO 1860-1938
Oil on board, signed lower left recto. Inscribed verso ‘Opera di mio padre il pittore Giacomo Grosso. Avv. Guglielmo Grosso’ and label ‘Mostra Postuma al Circolo degli Artisti di Torino. Giacomo Grosso nelle collezioni Torinesi, Torino 1960, n.
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Starting price: € 800
Lot 594
SCUOLA DELL’ITALIA SETTENTRIONALE DEL XX secolo
Oil on canvas. Signed above the right shoulder ‘GK’. Inscribed on the right recto ‘ Vittorio Emanuele III in uniforme da colonnello/principe di Napoli’. 35.43 x 27.56 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 500
Lot 595
SCUOLA PIEMONTESE DEL XVIII secolo
Oil on canvas, in oval. Vittorio Amedeo II (1666-1732) is portrayed wearing his armor and the collar of the “Santissima Annunziata” Order. 33.07 x 25.39 in.
Starting price: € 1.500
Lot 596
JACQUES-FRANÇOIS CARABAIN 1834 - 1933
Oil on board, signed lower right ‘J. Carabain’. The gentleman wears an elegant ermine stole, decorated with various honors and medals of the Royal House of Portugal. He’s standing and full-length, according to the tradition of court
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Starting price: € 4.000
Lot 597
CROCE DI UFFICIALE DELL’ORDINE DELLA CORONA D’ITALIA
OFFICER OF THE ORDER OF THE CROWN OF ITALY In a parchment box with enameled crown and cartouche with the portrait of the recipient, Antonio Manno. Slight damage to the parchment of the box and to the crown enamel. The
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Starting price: € 200
Lot 598
A GROUP OF SEVEN DIFFERENT SILVER TUMBLERS AND A SMALL SILVER STAND France, 18th and 19th Century
Several of them Paris, 18th Century , smooth, one gilt inside with a marchional coat of arms on the body. The stand circular, the rim filleted, a silver-gilt flower applied
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Starting price: € 700 | Sold for : € 700
Lot 599
CARTA GENERALE DELL’ITALIA, GIOVANNI MARIA CASSINI
Rome, Calcografia Camerale, 1793 Etching with slightly later hand coloring on 15 loose sheets, each in a wooden frame. Large map of Italy on 15 plates with wide margins which, when mounted together form a map of about
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Starting price: € 1.500
Lot 601
A SILVER CHAMBER CANDLESTICK 18th Century
With circular shaped embossed dish, open worked rim and bud bobèches. With candle snuffer fitted in the handle. 394 g 4.13 x 6.30 in. Provenienza / Provenance Collezione di S.A.R. il principe Amedeo di Savoia duca di Aosta.
Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 500