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 As regards the paintings there are important pictures of the 17th and 18th Century, among which an unpublished canvas by a young Luca Giordano and a great mythological scene by Lorenzo Pasinelli.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 151
SILVERED WOOD APPLIQUE
18th Century
Shaped, centered by an oval mirror, with two lights on scrolled arms.
21.3 x 17.3 x 7.5 in.
Starting price: € 600
Lot 152
LITURGICAL CANDLESTICK
Rome, 19th Century
In silvered and gilt metal, the handle with scrolls, a water leaf clasp and an oval cartouche with cardinal's coat of arms, the circular base embossed with palmettes, on three spherical feet.
3.5 x 13 x 4.7 in.
Starting price: € 200
Lot 153
PAIR OF LARGE MAIOLICA AMPHORAS
Savona, 1747
In white and blue maiolica, globular, with high neck and double crossed snake handles, a mask at the base of the handles, on the body battle scenes, on the necks a marquis coat-of-arms. Marqued and dated under the base.
Cracks and losses.
21.7 x 13 x 10.2 in.
Starting price: € 4.000 | Sold for : € 4.000
Lot 154
TABLE BOOK STAND
Rome, 18th Century
In carved and gilt-wood, with twisted ribbon rims and wide foliate scrolls band.
Damages and lacks.
10 x 15.4 x 12 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 550
Lot 155
LARGE CHEST OF DRAWERS
Rome or Naples, 18th Century
In walnut wood briar inlaid with precious essences, with three drawers with crosspiece on the front and two smaller ones on top, two drawers and two doors on the sides, with birds and floral scrolls.
Restorations and losses.
57.5 x 30.7 x 76.4 in.
Starting price: € 7.000
Lot 156
BIBLICAL SCENE
Probably Netherlands, 17th Century
Pencil on vellum, in carved and partially gilt-wood frame.
7.9 x 11 in.
Starting price: € 1.500
Lot 157
LARGE CHEST
Italy, partially 16th Century
In carved and partially lacquered red walnut wood, on the sides musician figures, on high flowered feet.
Damages, replacements and restorations.
35.8 x 63.8 x 23.6 in.
Starting price: € 2.000 | Sold for : € 2.000
Lot 158
TAPESTRY
Probably 19th Century
Depicting a flying putto with a flower wreath in a landscape with trees and architectures.
Damages to the border, reinforcements and patches visible on the reverse.
118.5 x 171.7 in.
Starting price: € 2.500
Lot 159
PAIR OF ENAMEL STANDS
Limoges, 18th-19th Century
In white and cobalt blue enamel, with figures of Gods and mythological scenes. Inscribed Limoges 1559 on the bottom.
Damages to the enamels.
3.9 x 5.9 in.
Starting price: € 2.500
Lot 160
SMALL LEATHER CASE
Spain, 18th Century
In operated Cordoba leather, with foliate scrolls.
8.7 x 9.4 x 6.7 in.
Starting price: € 600
Lot 161
ONE TABLE SCREEN AND ONE INKSTAND
Venice, late 18th-early 19th Century
The table screen in black lacquered and gilt wood in chinoiserie, the central panel in green glass with a chinoiserie in gold, the inkstand with two inkwells on circular dishes, in black lacquered and gilt wood, with gilt bronze lids.
Damages and losses to the lacquer
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Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 162
TABLE TOP
20th Century
Rectangular, smooth, veneered in red Sicilian jasper.
63 x 29.9 x 2.2 in.
The red Sicilian jasper is one of the most precious marbles and it is extracted in the mountains of Custonaci; its colour ranges from deep red to ocher yellow, with rare white intrusions.
Starting price: € 4.000 | Sold for : € 4.000
Lot 163
PAINTED WOOD PANEL
Venice, 18th-19th Century
With profiles of two galleys on a red background.
43.7 x 23.2 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400
Lot 164
CHOIR SEAT
Rome, 17th Century
Sarcophaqus-shaped seat, backrest with central panel centered by a rosette surmounted by an eagle, on the sides two columns with Corinthian capitals.
Damages and losses.
78.7 x 38.2 x 29.5 in.
Starting price: € 2.000 | Sold for : € 2.200
Lot 165
DA PAOLO DI DONO
Ritratto di Giotto
Oil on board, in elegant frame in style.
23.62 x 18.50 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 2.200
Lot 166
DA ANNIBALE CARRACCI
Cristo e la Cananea
Mixed media on cardboard. Faces, hands and feet painted, the other parts embroidered. Defects and losses.
13.19 x 10.35 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 500
Lot 167
PAIR OF FLOOR CANDLESTICKS
Rome, 18th Century
In gilt and silvered tole, balauster-shaped, with tripod base with putto heads at the corners, on paw feet, with applied gilt foliate falls on the stem.
Height 48 in.
Starting price: € 800
Lot 168
PAIR OF EPHEMERAL APPARATA
Rome, probably 17th Century
In gilt tole, in palm branch shape with a movable leaf-drop arm, on a modern metallic holder.
Damages to the gilding, dents and losses.
70.9 x 53.9 x 19.7 in.
Starting price: € 2.500
Lot 169
FIVE CARVED AND GILT-WOOD SCULPTURES
Rome, 18th Century
Originally part of a series of seven representing the theological virtues, faith, hope and charity and the cardinal ones, prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance.
Damages and losses.
The higher 12.59 in.
Starting price: € 2.500
Lot 170
SCUOLA FRANCESE
Cleopatra
Oil on canvas, backed on linen and restored with few ancient repaintings.
37.01 x 29.33 in.
Starting price: € 1.500 | Sold for : € 3.000
Lot 171
SMALL COIN CABINET WITH TABLE
18th Century and later
In ebonized and lacquered wood and ivory, with six drawers and a central drawer compartment, with trompe l'oeil door, the table in ebonized wood, with turned legs and crossed stretchers in wrought iron.
Restorations.
11.8 x 23.6 x 10.6 in.
Starting price: € 2.500
Lot 172
LARGE INKSTAND WITH DOCUMENT CASE
France, second half of 19th Century
Boulle style, made of wood, brass, ivory, mother of pearl and semi-precious stones, with a rectangular document case and three glass flasks at the base, the case door centered by an elaborated cartouche with central mask.
12.6 x 10.4 x 6.7 in.
Starting price: € 4.000
Lot 173
PAIR OF GONDOLA ARMCHAIRS
Rome, early 19th Century
With shaped back, entirely inlaid both on the front and on the back with birds and floral and foliate scrolls, upholstered in yellow fabric.
33.9 x 22 x 19.3 in.
Starting price: € 1.500 | Sold for : € 1.500
Lot 174
SMALL INLAID CHEST OF DRAWERS WITH ALABASTER TOP
Rome, 18th Century
Shaped, with three drawers, inlaid with floral motifs, the alabaster top perhaps coming from the Circeo mine.
18.1 x 33.5 x 36.6 in.
Starting price: € 4.000
Lot 175
CORDOVA LEATHER SCREEN
18th Century
Four panels, in chiseled and gilt leather, painted in red, black, ochre, entirely decorated with vegetable scrolls within cartouches and reserves. Lined at the back in red leather, of later period.
59.8 x 93.7 in.
The "corame" also called Cordovan leather owes its name to
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Starting price: € 6.000 | Sold for : € 6.000
Lot 176
FRESCO
16th Century
A putto in the center, two lateral bands with a floral decoration.
Damages and lacks, a rectangular lacuna in the middle of the upper portion.
59.4 x 40.2 in.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 1.000
Lot 177
LARGE TILTING LANTERN
Rome, 18th Century
Tole lacquered in light blue and red, with wooden support painted in black, ochre and light blue.
Bruises and damages to the lacquer.
Height 100.4 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 500
Lot 178
PAIR OF S. ANNA CHAIRS
Rome, 17th-18th Century
In lacquered and giltwood, with turned legs, straw seats and high backrests with a crest surmounted by a closed crown.
Damages and losses, a break at the top of one back, repaired and reinforced on the reverse.
49.2 x 21.7 x 17.7 in.
Starting price: € 800
Lot 179
PAIR OF LARGE FLOWER-SHAPED WALL LIGHTS
18th Century
In tole painted in green and ochre, the long stem with broad foliate scroll with spiral ribbon, with five lights.
Damages to the lacquer, bruises.
61 x 25.6 in.
Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 1.000
Lot 180
PAIR OF CORINTHIAN CAPITALS
Rome, 18th Century
In carved and gilt-wood.
Some losses, damages to the gilding.
20.9 x 22.4 x 24.8 in.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 1.200
Lot 181
IMPORTANT BUREAU CABINET
Veneto-Trentino area, 18th Century and later
Entirely veneered in olive briar, strongly moved and waved, with three drawers and two doors in the upper part, inside a central arch compartment with door and a series of smaller side pidgeon holes, the top with two lateral carved and gilt wood friezes, centered by a
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Starting price: € 45.000
Lot 182
PAIR OF LARGE ARMCHAIRS
Rome, first half of 18th Century
In walnut, shaped, on scrolled foliate legs, the arms with opposed S volutes, the backrest centered by a large flowered shell, the edges of the seat interrupted by clasps with flowered shells, upholstered in amaranth velvet.
Damages and wear.
49.2 x 26.4 x 21.3 in.
Starting price: € 3.000 | Sold for : € 2.000
Lot 183
PAIR OF PORCELAIN CUPS WITH DISHES
Meissen, 19th Century
With scrolled handle, 'mazzetto' decoration on crème-white ground.
One of the dishes probably not pertinent.
2.4 x 5.3 in.
Starting price: € 500
Lot 184
SMALL SÈVRES SUGAR BOWL
France, Second half of 18th Century
On the body two reserves with landscapes on a blue ground, the cover with alternated spiral bands in blue and gold, and with flowers on white ground.
3 x 4.1 x 3 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 550
Lot 185
PAIR OF PORCELAIN CUPS WITH DISHES
19th Century
Cylindrical, square scrolled handle, with plum colour landscapes and views on a white background, not marked.
Restorations.
2.8 x 5.1 in.
Starting price: € 300
Lot 186
PORCELAIN CUP WITH DISH
Meissen, Marcolini period, circa 1790
With a gentleman profile on the cup and a lady one on the dish within oval reserves with gilt flower borders, on cobalt blue ground, with geometrical scrolled handle.
3 x 5.3 in.
Count Camillo Marcolini-Ferretti, was appointed director of the Meissen manufactory in 1774
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Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 500
Lot 187
PORCELAIN CUP WITH DISH
Derby, England, late 18th-early 19th Century
With gold trellis decoration on a white ground, with cobalt blue rims.
3 x 5.3 in.
Starting price: € 300
Lot 188
MINIATURE PORCELAIN TEA POT
19th Century
On the body two oval reserves with domestic scenes with gilt borders on a white ground with butterflies, the beak with a silver terminal.
Restorations.
3.1 x 3.9 x 2.2 in.
Starting price: € 100
Lot 189
PORCELAIN CUP WITH DISH
Paris, 19th Century
Gilt and partially opacified, a reserve with a bucolic scene on the body, scrolled handle with a lion head on top.
Dish marked 'À l’éscalier de cristal'.
3.7 x 4.9 in.
L'éscalier de cristal (1802-1923), renowned boutique specialized in crystals, porcelains and gilded
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Starting price: € 300
Lot 190
FIVE PORCELAIN BOWLS WITH DISHES
Doccia, late 18th-early 19th Century
Three with a fine decoration with gold bunches of flowers on a creamy white ground, the other two, heavier, similar.
Only three are marked.
1.6 x 4.3 in.
Starting price: € 500
Lot 191
PAIR OF PORCELAIN CUPS WITH DISHES
Probably Naples, 19th Century
Cylindrical, scrolled handles, with landscapes within oval reserves and cobalt blue and gold rims.
2.6 x 4.1 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 192
PAIR OF ENAMEL SALT CELLARS
19th Century
With country landscapes within reserves on a cobalt blue ground with gilt trellised decorations.
1 x 2.6 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 193
ST. MICHAEL ARCHANGEL
Rome, 18th Century
Carved and gilt-wood sculpture.
Damages.
30.1 x 11.8 x 5.7 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 750
Lot 194
PAIR OF CANDLESTICK BASES
19th Century
In carved, gilt and cobalt blue painted wood, hexagonal balauster-shaped, with wrought iron tip.
16.9 x 10.6 x 5.3 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 350
Lot 195
LARGE CHEST OF DRAWERS
Rome, 17th-18th Century
In walnut wood, the angular pilasters with carved and gilt wood falls of flowers, with three drawers and a sliding top in the frieze, the handles of drawers mask-shaped in carved and giltwood.
Damages and losses, especially to the gilding.
38.4 x 57.5 x 28.3 in.
Starting price: € 5.000 | Sold for : € 4.000
Lot 196
SCUOLA ITALIANA
San Giovannino
Oil on red marble.
6.69 x 5.12 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 200
Lot 197
SEGUACE DI FRANS FRANCKEN II
Il banchetto di Baldassarre 16th-17th Century
Oil on canvas, upper center inscribed 'Ma [n] and Thetel Phares' and below 'Baldassar'.
Spread loss of color, defects, wear and tear.
30.31 x 39.17 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400
Lot 198
SCUOLA ITALIANA
Ritratto di gentiluomo
Oil on board.
11.02 x 8.66 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 1.100
Lot 199
SCUOLA ITALIANA
Adorazione dei Magi
Oil on board.
6.69 x 5.51 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 200
PAIR OF SMALL TABLES
19th-20th Century
In walnut, in 17th Century style, quadrangular, with barley twist carved and turned legs with stretchers.
16.1 x 21.3 x 21.3 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300