AUCTION
Tuesday, April 2 2019 - Sala Bolaffi, Via Cavour 17, Turin
11am
VIEWING
from Thursday 28 March to Tuesday 2 April (Sunday included) from 10am until 6pm
Sala Bolaffi, via Cavour 17, Turin
THREE SILVER ÉGOISTE COFFEE POTS AND A SILVER ÉGOISTE CHOCOLATE POT
France and Savoy, 18th-19th Century
Piriform, smooth, two with turned ebonized wood handle and two with ivory and bone handle.
1066 g comprising ivory and bone handles.
The higher 6.7 x 6.9 x 3.9 in.
Starting price: € 1.500 | Sold for : € 1.500
SILVER CHOCOLATE POT, TWO SILVER COFFEE POT AND A SILVER-GILT MILK JUG
France, early 19th Century
Chocolate pot and one coffee pot piriform with turned ebonized wooden handle, one coffe pot piriform with ebonized wood scrolled handle, silver-gilt milk jug, piriform, with
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 1.000
IVORY CHRIST
Germany or Flanders, 17th Century
Con croce in radica e teca in legno dorato e teca in legno dorato e seta.
11.8 x 9.6 in.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 1.300
Aquatint, plate number 53 of the famous Los Caprichos series, later print.
8.46 x 5.91 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 700
SET OF FOUR SMALL APPLIQUES
Piedmont, 18th Century
Gilt and red laquered wood, shaped, with ractangular mirrors, foliage scroll arm.
Minor damages and lacks, one mirror missing.
17.3 x 9.8 x 7.1 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 375
Etching signed in slab with a curved shape, good impression of the final state, trimmed to the plate, framed. Minor defects. Together with another engraving by Ostade.
5.91 x 4.92 in.
Bibliografia/Literature
Godefroy, "The complete etchings of Adriaen van Ostade", 1990,
Starting price: € 300
Oil on canvas.
29.92 x 42.72 in.
Provenienza/Provenance
Asta Casa d'Aste Datrino, 1973.
Collezione privata, Chivasso.
Starting price: € 8.000
SMALL CENTER TABLE
Late 18th Cntury
Veneered walnut, on tapered square column legs, on the top a central reserve with landscape and four grifons at the sides, between two rectangular reserves with floral decoration and foliage scrolls, with acanthus leaves rims.
Some
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 1.900
ARMCHAIR WITH TWO CHAIRS
Piedmont, 18th Century
Carved walnut, shaped, with scrolled legs, the armchair with legs jointed by a crosspiece and scrolled arms, the seats and the backs canneté.
Wear, serious damages to the canneté of one of the chairs seats .
The
Starting price: € 700 | Sold for : € 700
SMALL WALNUT LIBRARY LADDER
Piedmont, first half of 19th Century
With three rectangular steps with shaped borders, on tapered column legs.
24.4 x 20.9 x 21.7 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 1.400
Oil on canvas, on the reverse stamps of 'Societé Internationale des Antquaries', Paris. In beautiful carved gilt-wood frame.
29.53 x 22.83 in.
Provenienza/Provenance
Asta Casa d'aste Datrino, 11 novembre 1977.
Collezione privata, Chivasso.
Starting price: € 10.000 | Sold for : € 10.000
Oil on canvas, rebacked. In beautiful carved gilt-wood frame.
28.15 x 37.80 in.
Bibliografia/Literature
G. Caretto, 21° Mostra Maestri fiamminghi ed olandesi del XVI-XVII e XVIII secolo, Torino, 1981.
AA.VV., La natura morta italiana, Alfieri & Lacroix, Milano, 1964.
Mo
Starting price: € 30.000
TWO SILVER AND HARD STONES ANIMALS
Marked Fabergé, 20th Century
Depicting a gorilla smoking a cigarette and a bear.
418 g
The bear 3.5 x 2.2 x 2.8 in.
Starting price: € 350 | Sold for : € 550
TWO HARD STONES, GOLD AND SILVER DOGS
Marked Fabergé, 20th Century
One in nephrite with gold collar and a smaller silver one with gold collar. The silver one with Julius A. Rappoport mark.
The nephrite dog 4.1 x 3.5 x 2.2 in.
Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 1.400
TWO SILVER, SILVER-GILT AND HARD STONES SALT-CELLARS
Marked Fabergé, 19th-20th Century
In the form of elephants, one with nephrite tusks, one with ivory tusks. One with Julius A. Rappoport mark of, the other with Stephen Wakeva mark.
The larger 1.8 x 3.3 x 1.4 in.
388 g
Starting price: € 700 | Sold for : € 700
ROCK CRYSTAL, GOLD, ENAMEL AND DIAMONDS
Marked Fabergé, 1970 circa
Circular, with gold ribbon and red enamel ending in a bow with diamonds finials on the lid, with diamonds clasp clamp . In Fasano, Turin, leather, silk and cloth case.
156 g
1.8 x 2.4 in.
Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 1.300
TWO SILVER-GILT AND ENAMELS EGGS AND A CAVIAR BOWL
Marked Fabergé, Saint Petersbourg, 20th Century
With silversmith's mark in Cyrillic characters, with floral decorations in polychrome enamels, with cabochon glass paste. In the lot also a silver stand for one egg.
468 g
T
Starting price: € 400
SILVER AND ENAMEL BOX
Marked Fabergé, 20th Century
Cylindrical, light blue guilloché enamel, with silver-gilt palmette friezes on the body and a silver-gilt double eagle on the cover. In the lot also a silver and silver-gilt circular box, 20th Century.
292 g
1.2 x 3.3 in.
Starting price: € 350 | Sold for : € 1.300
TWO SILVER, SILVER-GILT AND NIELLO CAVIAR BOWLS
Russia, 19th Century
One Obchinnikov, St. Petersburg, 1874, cylindrical, with openwork border, two reserves with views of St. Petersburg and one with the engraving '1864 S. Petersbourg 1875', the other, smaller, tripod, a
Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 1.400
ROBY ROOT PRESSE-PAPIER
20th Century
Representing a pair of sparrows in ruby root on geode, metal and vitreous paste. In the lot also two other bronze presse-papiers in the form of sparrows and two pebbles covered in silver, Fasano, Turin, 20th Century.
4.1 x 5.9 x 4.7
Starting price: € 550 | Sold for : € 550
NEPHRITE, SILVER, SILVER-GILT AND HARD-STONES BOWL
Marked Fabergé, 20th Century
Rhomboidal, with a silver gilt edge and a silver grip and hard-stones in the form of a snake, in a Fabergé case in wood, silk and velvet. In the lot also another cup in nephrite, silver and
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 1.700
GROUP OF SEVEN HARD STONES ANIMALS
20th Century
Two nephrite ducks and a tiger's eye one, an amethyst squirrel, an aventurine fish, a tiger eye turtle and one in lapis-lazuli. In the lot also two stone animals of archaic form, possibly Argentina.
The tiger's eye duck 4.7 x
Starting price: € 500
TWO SILVER-GILT AND NIELLO GOBLETS AND A CHALICE
Moscow and Russia, second half of 19th Century
Two goblets Moscow 1842, cylindrical, with flared neck, with landscapes and views of Moscow reserves, the chalice with floral decoration.
454 g
Chalice 7.5 x 2.2 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 1.900
THREE SILVER AND SILVER GILT BOXES
Moscow, 19th-20th Century
Oval, shaped and domed, one fluted, one fluted and engraved with floral decoration, one with embossed garlands and falling ribbons.
Different measures.
Starting price: € 1.200 | Sold for : € 1.900
SILVER AND SILVER-GILT TEA SET
Latvia, 19th-20th Century
Comprising teapot, milk jug, sugar bowl and cookie stand, bombé, with vertical flutes, gilt inside. Also marked with Russian marks, Fabergé mark and LR initials.
2.612 g
9.6 x 11.4 x 6.3 in.
Starting price: € 1.000
HARD STONES, GOLD AND SILVER SCULPTURE
Possibly Russia, XX secolo
Depicting a butcher with an axe. Inside Fasano, Turin bordeaux calf and silk fitted box.
5.5 x 3.5 x 2.4 in.
Starting price: € 550 | Sold for : € 1.800
GROUP OF FOUR ICONS
Russia, end of 19th Century-early 20th Century
Of which two representing the Blessing Christ, one the Mother of God pointing the Way and one the Mother of God of Tenderness, with metal and silver riza.
The larger 3.5 x 3 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 600
GROUP OF THREE TRAVEL ICONS
Russia, early 20th Century
The three triptychs depict the Mother of God and chosen Saints, one with metal riza and enamels.
The larger 6.2 x 3.5 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 6.500
GROUP OF FIVE TRAVEL ICONS
19th Century and later
One depicting a chosen Saint marked Moscow 1863, two depicting of the Mother of God of Kazan, late 19th Century, a St. Nicholas with metal riza, 20th Century and a handheld icon of the Orthodox saint, late 19th Century.
The
Starting price: € 690
TRAVEL ICON
Russia, 1843
Triptych with the descent to the underworld, with silver-gilt riza and silver case.
2.6 x 7.3 in.
Starting price: € 900 | Sold for : € 1.700
GROUP OF SIX TRAVEL ICONS
19th Century and later
One depicting the Mother of God with Child, with silver-gilt riza marked 1868, one the Mother of God of Kazan, with silver-gilt riza, late 19th century and one depicting Saint Sergius with silver-gilt riza, late 19th
Starting price: € 950 | Sold for : € 1.200
ICON
Smolensk, end of 19th Century-early 20th Cerntury
Depicting the Mother of God, with silver-gilt and enamels riza.
7.1 x 5.7 in.
Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 1.600
ICON WITH RIZA
Early 20th Century
Depicting the apparition of the Virgin to St. Sergius with Trinity of the Old Testament, with silver plated riza.
Damages and oxydations.
12.6 x 10.6 in.
Starting price: € 700 | Sold for : € 700
DOUBLE SILVER-GILT SALT-CELLAR
Russia, probably Toula, second half of 19th Century
On shaped base, the containers and the central handle in the form of a branch with two leaves.
150 g
5.1 x 4.5 x 2.8 in.
Starting price: € 500
GROUP OF THREE ICONS
Russia, late 19th Century
Three Marian icons, one with silver-gilt and enamels riza, one with silver and silver-gilt riza and one with silver plated riza.
The larger 10.8 x 8.3 in.
Starting price: € 700 | Sold for : € 700
SIX COPTIC CROSSES AND A BOOK
The bigger in bronze, the smaller five in silver; the book by Dr. W. Korabiewicz, The Ethiopian Cross, Addis Ababa 1973. Various measures.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400
ICON WITH RIZA
Russia, 1857
Depicting Saint Nicholas with scenes of life, with silver riza.
Damages and lacks.
20.1 x 15.9 in.
Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 600
ICON WITH RIZA
Russia, second half of 19th Century
Stauroteca with cycle of the Passion, with silver riza and gilt metal cross.
Partially worn marks.
17.5 x 15 in.
Starting price: € 1.200 | Sold for : € 1.200
GROUP OF SEVEN SMALL ICONS
Russia, second half of 19th Century-early 20th Century
With in silver plated and silver riza, including two Marian icons, two Pantocrator, the seven sleepers of Ephesus, Mary joy of the afflicted and Saint Olga.
The larger 4.3 x 3.5 in.
Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 650
ORTHODOX ICON
Second half of 19th Century
On shaped and carved board, depicting a chosen Saint.
12 x 9.1 in.
Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 6.500
SAMARCANDA CARPET
19th Century
Yellow and ros edecoration on crème ground.
Wear and fading.
124.4 x 60.2 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 350
ICON ON BOARD
Greece, Crete, probably 16th Century
Depicting an archangel, on gold ground.
12.6 x 10.2 in.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 5.000
GROUP OF COPTIC ICONS
The scenes – inspired by the Vangels – are painted in polychromy on eight copper plates divided in four groups joined as a book.
From 7.48 x 7.48 to 10.24 x 8.86 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400
ICON
Russia, 19th Century
Representing Saint Elia on the Carso, on gold ground.
A crack down at the center.
16.9 x 13.8 in.
Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 800
Watercolor on paper, titled and signed lower left recto.
26.77 x 38.98 in.
Starting price: € 1.300
SILVER CIGARETTE CASE
Moscow, 1908-1926
Samorodok silver rectangular cigarette case with crown of the kingdom of Siam in gold applied on the lid and clasp with cabochon sapphire, gilt inside.
180 g
0.7 x 4.1 x 2.8 in.
The samorodok technique, much appreciated in 19th Century
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 750
ICONA ORTODOSSA ON BOARD
19th Century
Depicting a Saint who indicates the sky.
8.7 x 6.7 in.
Starting price: € 600
CHANDELIER
First half of 19th Century
Eighti lights chandelier, with three gilt-metal bands and chains of oval faceted and prism pendents crystals, on top a crowm of gilt-metal palmettes.
Minor lacks and replacements to the glasses.
34.3 x 27.6 in.
Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 600
LARGE MIRROR
End of XVIII Century
Carved, gilt and painted wood in faux marble and green with sphinxes, leaf scrolls and profiles within oval reserves.
Damages to the painting.
68.3 x 52.4 in.
Starting price: € 2.500 | Sold for : € 2.500
SET OF SOFA, TWO ARMCHAIRS AND TWO CHAIRS
First half of 19th Century
Painted gilt-wood, the sofa with feral legs and armrests with swans, armchairs and chairs with grooved legs and panted armrests.
Breaks and repaintings.
The sofa 38.8 x 63 x 27.6 in.
Starting price: € 3.000 | Sold for : € 3.800