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 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