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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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