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 As regards the paintings there are important pictures of the 17th and 18th Century, among which an unpublished canvas by a young Luca Giordano and a great mythological scene by Lorenzo Pasinelli.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 251
TERRESTRIAL GLOBE
France, Early 20th Century
Papier-mache globe openable along the equatorial line, published by Z & B, with metal base.
Diameter 3 in.
Starting price: € 500
Lot 252
SUNDIAL
Italy, Early 20th Century
Rare portable sudial in colored cardboard with leaded string and recent wooden base. Defects.
Height 8.7 in.
Starting price: € 200
Lot 253
FOREST. TERRESTRIAL GLOBE
Paris, 1924-1926
Beautiful terrestrial globe by the French cartographer J. Forest with elaborate base in metal and red marble depicting an open atlas, a spyglass and a compass. The date is obtained by the presence of Lenigrad and the absence of Lebanon.
Diameter 3.2 in.
Starting price: € 900 | Sold for : € 900
Lot 254
HOT-AIR BALLOON IN PAPIER MACHÉ ON WOODEN BASE
Turin, 1817
On a rectangular base, in wood with four paper dowels with mottos, coat of arms and dedication to the marquise Rosa Brizio Asinari of Bernezzo, above a pyramidal obelisk in wood surmounted by painted papier-maché balloon, dated September 4th, 1817. On top a paper flag
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Starting price: € 5.000
Lot 255
LOT OF TWELVE STONES
Italy
A heterogeneous group of eleven mostly spherical stones with three wooden bases and one faux marble painted wooden sphere.
Starting price: € 600
Lot 256
SMALL SCAGLIOLA IN HARD STONES
Italy, 20th Century
Slate slab with inlays of precious stones and marbles, with floral motif in the center. In the lot also a 6 in. strip with other small polychrome marble dowels.
3.7 x 5.1 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 257
PIETRA PAESINA
Tuscany, Paleocene
Scenographic natural landscape from a slab of paesina, a typically Tuscan stone that consists mainly of limestone and clay and which was formed about 50 million years ago. Framed.
2.4 x 6.3 in.
Starting price: € 250
Lot 258
SPICE BOX
Italy, 19th Century
Beautiful turned wooden box on a circular base with a flat knot on the stem and an ivory knob.
9.1 x 4.3 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 350
Lot 259
SIX WOODEN BOXES
Italy, 20th Century
Nice group of turned boxes in different shapes and essences, all with tall knobs.
The higher 8.7 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 600
Lot 260
WALNUT CABINET
Piedmont, late 19th-early 20th Century
Rectangular, shaped with rounded corners, with two central and two lateral doors, surmounted by a band with four drawers.
40.9 x 75.2 x 19.7 in.
Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 600