FURNITURE, PAINTINGS, WORKS OF ART
Important auction characterized by great quality and unexceptionable origins. The first part of the catalogue is dedicated to oriental art with 150 lots made out of jade, ivory, coral and porcelain. The second session is dedicated to the western arts including two prestigious private collections, the one of a Roman gentleman with high-period furniture, and the collection of Giuseppe Clinanti of antique glass, composed of pieces of absolute rarity from the 16th to the 19th Century. As regards the paintings there are important pictures of the 17th and 18th Century, among which an unpublished canvas by a young Luca Giordano and a great mythological scene by Lorenzo Pasinelli. The 19th Century is represented by a large painting of museum quality by Antonio Zona, two rare oils by Giovanni Giani and a beautiful landscape by Lorenzo Viani. The sale ends with a series of objects of royal and papal provenance, and with an eclectic silver candlestick whose adventurous story will be disclosed to you in the Bolaffi saleroom.
11 am | lots 1-145
2 pm | lots 146-476
Turin - Sala Bolaffi, via Cavour 17
VIEWING
5/11 April Turin - Sala Bolaffi, via Cavour 17 (10-13 am | 2-6 pm)
Lot 101
JADE FIGURE WITH HORSE
China, 20th Century
In white jade with apple green inclusions, on a wooden base.
2 x 1.5 x 1 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 600
Lot 102
SILK TAPESTRY
China, 19th Century
Embroidered with “the hundred children” on light blue silk, the verso lined in silk.
Defects and fading, damages and breaks to the lining on the reverse.
104.3 x 56.3 in.
Starting price: € 2.000
Lot 103
JADE VASE
China, 19th-20th Century
Of archaic profile, in white jade with spinach green colored veins. With glued wooden base.
2.8 x 0.9 x 0.6 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 950
Lot 104
PAIR OF JADE BIRDS OF PARADISE
China, 20th Century
In céladon jade with black inclusions, with shaped bases in carved wood.
8.3 x 2 in.
Starting price: € 500
Lot 105
TURQUOISE MINIATURE VASE WITH MAGNOLIA AND HIBISCUS FLOWERS
China, 19th Century
Light and homogeneous turquoise, almost without veins, on wooden base.
2.6 x 2 x 1.6 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 700
Lot 106
TURQUOISE FIGURE
China, 20th Century
In turquoise with marked black veins, depicting a female figure with a mirror, glued on a wooden base.
4.7 x 3 x 1.2 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 107
TURQUOISE FIGURE
China, 20th Century
In light turquoise with few black veins, depicting a female figure with basket and flower. On wooden base.
3.1 x 3 x 2 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400
Lot 108
WHITE AND BLUE PORCELAIN CUP ON HIGH FOOT
China, 20th Century
In the central part and inside are depicted dragons with five claws among lotus flowers, at the base of the body a band of petals. Inside the foot a brush inscription under glaze大 明 宣德 年 製 da Ming Xuande nianzhi ("produced during the reign of Xuande of the great Ming
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Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 500
Lot 109
LARGE PORCELAIN VASE
China, 20th Century
In green porcelain, globular, realistically shaped as cabbage leaves with caterpillars, a geometric decoration at the base and on the neck's rim.
25.4 x 15.7 in.
Starting price: € 1.500 | Sold for : € 1.500
Lot 110
TWO TURTLE CARAPACES
A larger one, darker, and a smaller one.
Damages and losses to the border of the larger one.
The larger 31.5 x 27.6 x 5.9 in.
Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 250
Lot 111
COCO DE MER ON A STONE BASE
Seychelles, 20th Century
Lodoicea Maldivica nut, mounted on an octagonal base in light porous stone.
The Maldivian Lodoicea is a plant that grows exclusively on the Seychelles islands. Its walnut is the largest seed in the world and its archaic name, Lodoicea Callypige, derives from its
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Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 350
Lot 112
CROCODILE IN TAXIDERMY
19th-20th Century
This is brobably a beautiful and almost perfectly preserved exemplar of Crocodylus Niloticus in taxidermy.
Minor lacks.
34.4 x 7.5 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 250
Lot 113
HEXAGONAL TORTOISE-SHELL BRUSH HOLDER
South China, Quing dynasty, 20th century
Assembled tortoise-shell carved with cloud motifs , crossed by tilting cranes.
5.5 x 3.5 in.
Starting price: € 400
Lot 114
TORTOISE-SHELL BOX AND FAN
China, Canton, 19th-20th Century
Carved and engraved tortoise-shell. The box, in tortoise-shell assembled, decorated on the lid with flowers and leaves motifs, the fan with wooden handle, carved with a motif of seven dragons in the clouds, mounted in a glass panel.
Vertical ageing crack on the edge of
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Starting price: € 400
Lot 115
TORTOISE-SHELL RUYI SCEPTER
China, Quing dynasty, 20th century
Assembled tortoise-shell, carved and engraved with grape vine motifs and squirrels and a motif with a regular weave on the reverse.
18.9 x 5 in.
Starting price: € 1.500
Lot 116
RHINO-HORN LIBATION CUP
China, Quing dynasty, 19th-20th century
Carved in the shape of a pond, with carps, flowers and lotus leaves on the surface and a crane along its side. At the base apocryphal engraving of four characters: 乾隆 年 製 Qianlong nianzhi ("produced during the Qianlong period"). Accompanied by a gemological analysis
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Starting price: € 1.500 | Sold for : € 2.000
Lot 117
THREE GILT BRONZE BUDDHA
Thailand, 19th Century
All the three sculptures depict the seated cross-legged Buddha on steps of sloping size, the surface of all worked in slight relief with floral and geometrical patterns.
The larger 9.8 x 5.7 x 3.5 in.
Starting price: € 700 | Sold for : € 700
Lot 118
KNEADING TROUGH
Middle East, 19th Century
Rectangular, on balauster feet, with pinnacle edges, rough top, the front entirely engraved with floral geometric decoration, a sliding door on the front.
44.1 x 39.8 x 19.5 in.
Starting price: € 500
Lot 119
THREE BOXES
South East Asia, 20th Century
Lacquered in red and black, a shorter one with compartments inside, a larger one, cylindrical, with red and black lacquered on the verso inside top, and a smaller one, cylindrical, with green and black lacquered on the verso internal top.
The larger 9.8 x 10.6 in.
Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 500
Lot 120
WOODEN CHEST
Probably India, 18th-19th Century
Rectangular, in partially red lacquered wood and lined with a geometric openwork in brass and studs, with four drawers at the base.
Damages and losses.
19.5 x 46.5 x 19.5 in.
Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 800
Lot 121
THANGKA BHAVACAKRA
Tibet, 20th Century
Traditional representation of the so-called Wheel of Existence, with the Three Poisons in the center (greed, ignorance and hate) represented respectively by rooster, boar and snake inside a band in which the growth of man is depicted,
in the six segments six divine and
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Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 122
PRAYER REEL
Tibet, 20th Century
Made of an ivory handle and a silver cylinder with ivory band with carved Mantra, which rotates on a central pin. The cylinder, that can be opened, contains the prayer roll, tightly wrapped around itself.
11.4 x 2.8 in.
The Mani, or prayer reel, is a prayer tool used by
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Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 800
Lot 123
BUDDHA'S HEAD
South East Asia, 20th Century
In ebonized wood, with strongly elongated ears.
9.1 x 4.5 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 124
DECORATIVE METAL SPHERE
India, 19th Century
With embossed warrior figures, mounted on a quadrangular plexiglass base.
Bruises.
15.4 x 5.7 in.
Starting price: € 300
Lot 125
BRAHMA'S HEAD
India, probably 12th Century
Stone sculpture.
Losses and wear.
15.7 x 9.5 x 15 in.
Starting price: € 300
Lot 126
BUDDHA
Thailand, 20th Century
In 16th-17th Century style, in gilt bronze, depicting the seated Buddha in a dhyanasana position, on a triangular base.
The gilding slightly damaged.
13 x 9.1 x 5.1 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400
Lot 127
TANTRIC DIVINITY ON THE LOTUS FLOWER
Nepal, 20th Century
In cast copper, the figures are inserted into the base with two unfixed pins. They are Vajrakilaya, a deity capable of removing obstacles and destroying the demons that hinder the path to Buddhist enlightenment.
5.1 in.
Starting price: € 700 | Sold for : € 700
Lot 128
BRONZE MUSICIAN PRINCE
Thailand, 19th-20th Century
Sitting on a rectangular slab supported by shrubs the figure, probably depicting Prince Pra Apai Manee, is playing a small chest lute, the head slightly tilted down, on the naked bust a gorgeous pectoral with star pendant, the ear lobes elongated and with earrings, on
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Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400
Lot 129
TWO GILT AND BURNISHED BRASS FIGURES
Nepal, 20th Century
Depicting the bodhisattva Amitayus and the bodhisattva Manjusri, both sealed with a copper plate at the base, the second with dedication to the patron engraved at the base.
Height 8.7 in.
Starting price: € 300
Lot 130
STANDING BUDDHA IN GILT BRONZE
Thailand, 19th Century
The figure rests on a hemispherical base placed on a pedestal with sloping steps, dressed in a suit that expands between waist and knees assuming the shape of a cape, holds the arms raised at the elbow and wears a high hat with a pointed end.
24 x 6.3 x 6.3 in.
Starting price: € 400
Lot 131
MUSICIAN PRINCE IN BRONZE
Thailand, early 20th Century
Depicting probably Prince Pra Apai Manee absorbed playing a small lute, wearing a high crown. On rectangular base. Traces of gilding.
17.9 x 15 x 8.3 in.
Starting price: € 300
Lot 132
GLASS PANEL WITH A TZUBA
China, end of 19th Century
Partially gilt iron tzuba with a warrior figure, mounted on a glass, silk and trimming panel.
6.9 x 6.9 in.
Starting price: € 200
Lot 133
PANEL WITH TWENTY-FOUR ORNAMENTS FOR THE SWORD
Japan, 19th-20th Century
Twenty-four menuki, the ornaments that fit into the handle of the sword, in metal alloys, mounted in a rectangular glass panel, cloth and braid.
13 x 6.9 in.
Starting price: € 300
Lot 134
ONE GLASS PANEL WITH SEVEN BUTTONS AND ONE WITH A BUCKLE
China, 20th Century
The buttons in different metals, partially gilded, the buckle probably in silver, the panels in glass, silk and trimming.
9.6 x 8.1 in.
Starting price: € 300
Lot 135
TWO INRO
Japan, 19th Century
Two medicine cases in painted brass, one with a theater scene, with dyed ivory netzuke, inside painted wooden cases.
Damages and breaks to the wooden cases.
6.7 x 3.3 x 2.4 in.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 2.200
Lot 136
PAIR OF WATERCOLOURS ON PAPER
Japan, 19th-20th Century
Framed, depicting a pair of partridges and a couple of quails, one of the two with calligraphic panels on the back, the other accompanied by a calligraphic panel.
13.2 x 10 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 200
Lot 137
SIX IMARI PORCELAIN SMALL DISHES
Japan, Meiji period
Modeled in the shape of a leaf, each one shows a decoration painted in blue, red and orange enamels with motifs of flowers, small landscapes and a dragon, compositions inserted into cartouches of various shapes partially overlapping one on top of the other.
1.6 x 9.4
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Starting price: € 2.000
Lot 138
LARGE IMARI PORCELAIN DISH
Japan, 19th Century
Painted in blue, red, orange and gold, it has a circular medallion in the center of the bottom with a bottle vase with flowers, around it there are four larger lobed contour reserves with landscape and four smaller ones with floral composition.
16.3 x 2.2 in.
Starting price: € 500
Lot 139
PAIR OF IMARI PORCELAIN VASES WITH COVER
Japan, 19th Century
Baluster-shaped, with circular base, in porcelain decorated in blue, rust and gold with foliate ramages and cobalt blue background reserves.
16.7 x 6.7 in.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 2.400
Lot 140
LARGE LACQUERED AND GILTWOOD LETTER BOX WITH COVER , RYŌSHIBAKO
Japan, Edo period
Rectangular, the entire external surface with a black lacquer base with a decoration with maki-e gold thin and sinuous vegetable scrolls, several times interrupted by the heraldic Tokugawa mon emblem consisting of three aoi mauve leaves within a circle.
5.9 x 16.1 x 13
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Starting price: € 400
Lot 141
PAIR OF SATSUMA VASES
Japan, 20th Century
In porcelain painted above glaze with pasty colors, depicting court scenes on a blue ground.
11.8 x 6.7 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 200
Lot 142
BRONZE GLOBULAR VASE
Japan, 19th Century
Dark brown patina, decorated on the outside with strong floral relief.
1.8 x 6.7 in.
Starting price: € 200
Lot 143
GROUP OF SIX TSUBA
Japan, 19th Century
In iron and gilt iron, with figures and floral decorations, contained in quadrangular wooden boxes.
Different measures.
Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 144
CHŌZU-BACHI, BRONZE WATER VASE
Japan, 19th Century
Globular body placed on a circular domed base with a heart-shaped opening on the front, in the lower area a modeled beak bamboo stem-shaped, naturalistically shaped handles as leaves, circular lid with grouped leaves, the body elegantly engraved with cranes flying in
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Starting price: € 1.200
Lot 145
LACQUERED AND GILTWOOD SCREEN
19th Century
Three panels screen, lacquered in black and gold in chinoiserie with river landscapes, the border with geometric decoration interrupted by reserves with floral decoration.
Minor losses to the lacquer, one of the feet restored.
48 x 47.2 x 1.2 in.
Starting price: € 500
Lot 146
NEOCLASSICAL CHEST OF DRAWERS
Lombardy, late 18th-early 19th Century
In rosewood and kingwood, with two drawers and a smaller one on the frieze, the front centered by a musical trophy inlaid between double opposing scrolls in a hexagonal reserve, a border with geometric decoration with lilies on the frieze, on tapering legs.
Damages and
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Starting price: € 5.000 | Sold for : € 3.500
Lot 147
PAIR OF MIRRORS WITH LIGHTS
Rome, 18th-19th Century
In carved and silvered wood, with a central cameo and two side vases on top, with leaf drops on the sides, the arms in silvered tole, with light-blue silk lampshades.
51.2 x 18.9 in.
Starting price: € 1.500
Lot 148
WALL CONSOLE
Rome, 18th Century
In carved and gilt wood, double foliate scrool-shaped, the top in trompe-l'oeil faux-marbre.
Serious damage, lacks and breakage, requires restoration.
22.8 x 33.1 x 18.5 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400
Lot 149
SILK ALTARPIECE
Rome, probably 18th Century
In salmon silk embroidered with silver thread and rhinestones with floral decoration surmounted by fruit baskets. Mounted on a glass panel.
44.9 x 81.1 x 3.1 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 150
TRIPOD CONSOLE
Rome, 18th Century
Strongly shaped, scrolled, with large paw feet, the shaped top with faux marble trompe l'oeil.
Damages and lacks.
33.7 x 25.8 x 14 in.
Starting price: € 800