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 361
THREE BETEL NUTCRACKER 19th Century
In metal and gilt metal, including one in the shape of a horse. The longest 6.50 in.
Starting price: € 150
Lot 362
A TERRESTRIAL GLOBE, J. LEBEGUE Paris, second half of the 19th Century
Mounted on sculpture in bronze depicting Gea, black marble base, inscribed ‘J.L. Lebegue and C.ie Editeurs, 30 rue Lille, Paris’. Height 8.66 in.
Image refers to lots 362-363-364-365
Starting price: € 1.500
Lot 363
A RARE TERRESTRIAL GLOBE OF EGG FORM
Germany, about 1880 The globe opens as a box, on a bronze tripod with a miniature depicting a military officer on the base. Height 5.12 in.
Image refers to lots 362-363-364-365
Starting price: € 2.000 | Sold for : € 2.000
Lot 364
A CELESTIAL GLOBE, SMITH & SON
London, circa 1850 With bone and brass handle, inscribed ‘Smith’s Celestial Gloge - Smith & Son, London’. Height 4.33 in.
Image refers to lots 362-363-364-365
Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 750
Lot 365
A TERRESTRIAL GLOBE, PAUL RATH Leipzig, 19th Century
Working as a money box with openable metal flap on the bottom, incribed ‘Neuer Schulerglobus - v.Prof. Dr. A. Krause [...] Paul Rath GmbH‘. Diameter 11 cm
Image refers to lots 362-363-364-365
Starting price: € 150
Lot 366
A GEOMANTIC COMPASS (LUOPAN 羅盤) China, Qing Dynasty, 19th Century
Wooden disc painted with inscriptions in black; at the center of the disc there is a small compass protected by glass. The magnetic needle of the compass does not work, it’s glass is broken. Small
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Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 200
Lot 367
A SOLAR CLOCK COMPASS 18th Century
Walnut case, inscribed on the dial ‘I.G.Klein engineer fecit’. 2.75 x 1.57 in.
Image refers to lots 366-367-368
Starting price: € 300
Lot 368
AN IVORY COMPASS 18th Century
Circular form, doomed. Diameter 1.97 in.
Image refers to lots 366-367-368
Starting price: € 1.000
Lot 369
A GROUP OF THREE WALKING STICKS 19th-20th Century
One made of shark vertebrae, one with the handle that opens and contains a smoking pipe, the last with deer horn and paw handle, iron tip and inscribed ‘Rigi Kulm’. The longest 39.17 in.
Starting price: € 500
Lot 370
A THEODOLITE, CARLO GRINDEL Milan, first half of the 19th Century
In walnut and brass. Height 53.54 in. Bibliografia / Literature Collezione degli atti delle solenni distribuzioni de’ premj d’industria fatte in Milano ed in Venezia dall’anno 1806 in avanti, Milano, Regia
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Starting price: € 400