FURNITURE, PAINTINGS, WORKS OF ART
AUCTION
Tuesday 22 September 2020
9.30 am | lots 1-292
2 pm | lots 293-665
Sala Bolaffi, Torino, via Cavour 17
VIEWING
From Thursday 10 September by appointment only (+39 011 0199101; info@astebolaffi.it).
From Thursday 17 to Tuesday 22 September 2020, free entrance from 10 am to 6 pm.
Sala Bolaffi, Torino, via Cavour 17
Lot 451
Commode à demi-lune
19th Century
Fruit-wood, inlaid with geometrical threads, with three drawers.
Damages, cracks and detachments to the veneer.
33.9 x 54.7 x 22 in.
Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 800
Lot 452
Bureau
Late 18th Century
Veneered in walnut, with five drawers and a sliding top, on fluted legs.
Lot including also a walnut armchair with padded backrest.
Damages and lacks.
Bureau 32.7 x 51.2 x 25.2 in.
Armchair 29.1 x 24.8 x 19.7 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 700
Lot 453
Group of three carpets
Central Asia and Baluch, 1970 circa
Two on red ground, one on burgundy ground, all with geometrical decorations.
Wear and defects.
The larger 35.4 x 47.2 in.
Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 250
Lot 454
Commode
Piedmont, 18th Century and later
Rosewood, with inlaid twisted ribbon fillets, on tapered legs.
Replacements and remakes.
32.9 x 40.9 x 16.5 in.
Starting price: € 1.000
Lot 455
Demi-lune commode
Giuseppe Viglione, Turin, 1781
Inlaid in kingwood, maple wood and other essences, with linear motifs interrupted by gilt-bronze clasps on the frieze and with an elegant meander parquetry with trompe l'oeil tridimensional effect to frame the drawers, with gray marble top, three drawers on the front
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Starting price: € 10.000 | Sold for : € 15.000
Lot 456
Stories from Gerusalemme liberata
Tempera on canvas.
17.52 x 23.43 in.
Within elegant neoclassical wooden frames.
Starting price: € 15.000
Lot 457
Erminia among the shepherds
Oil on canvas.
15.35 x 24.41 in.
The scene comes from an episode of Torquato Tasso's "Gerusalemme liberata" in which Erminia gets up near the Jordan river and meets a hoary man who makes music with three young boys while weaving twigs to make a basket. The shepherds are
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Starting price: € 4.000
Lot 458
Domine quo vadis in an arcadic landscape 1777
Oil on canvas.
18.31 x 23.62 in.
Signed and dated 'Giuseppe Bacigalupo 1777' on the frame's reverse.
Starting price: € 3.000
Lot 459
Venus wounded by Diomedes
Oil on canvas.
30.71 x 35.63 in.
Famous depiction taken from Homer's Iliad, in which Venus, the goddess of love, trying to save her son Aeneas is wounded by Diomedes on the wrist. Not being a warrior goddess, she is saved by Iri who, having borrowed the horses from
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Starting price: € 6.000 | Sold for : € 9.500
Lot 460
Important frame
Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, last quarter of 18th Century
Carved gilt-wood, rectangular, shaped, with geometrical pattern carving, with large molding centered by a scroll surmounted by a shell and a bow between olive branches, from which rise two large flower and leaves wreaths falling to the sides.
106.3 x 76 x 5.5 in.
The
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Starting price: € 25.000
Lot 461
Cartel d'applique
Martinot, Paris, second half of 19th Century
Gilt-bronze, shaped, trellis decoration with falling laurel wreaths and acanthus leaves, a pine cone on top, white enamel dial, signed Martinot à Paris, with Roman and Arabic numeration.
24.8 x 11.8 x 4.7 in.
Starting price: € 1.000
Lot 462
Group of three chairs
18th-19th Century
Cream painted and gilt wood, with lyre back and canneté seat.
Damages to the canneté seats, wear.
35.8 x 17.7 x 15.7 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 275
Lot 463
Group of two armchairs and four chairs
18th-19th Century
Ocher and green painted wood, with geometric back, tapered and partially fluted column legs, cushions upholstered in silk, armchairs with scrolled armrests.
One armrest re-glued, wear.
36.6 x 22.8 x 19.7 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 600
Lot 464
Demi-lune commode
Piedmont, late 18th Century
Carved, painted in cream and gilt wood with flower trophies and falls, with gray marble shaped top, with two drawers and two side doors, on tapered and fluted column legs.
Minor lacks to the painting and to the gilding.
34.8 x
Starting price: € 10.000 | Sold for : € 15.000
Lot 465
Group of five miniatures depicting male figures
France and England, 18th-19th Century
Four in mixed media on paper, one oil on copper. One probably depicting an actor, the others gentlemen. Framed.
Different measures.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 200
Lot 466
Group of three miniatures depicting female figures
Probably France, 19th Century
Mixed media on paper, framed.
Different measures.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 400
Lot 467
Group of four miniatures
18th-19th Century
Three depicting female figures realized in mixed media on paper, the last one depicting a mythological figure painted in oil on copper. All framed.
Different measures.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 100
Lot 468
Miniature depicting Luis XVI and Marie Antoinette
France, 18th Century and later
Mixed media on paper, lot comprising other two male portraits and two engravings. Framed.
Different measures.
Starting price: € 200
Lot 469
Group of four miniatures depicting female figures
France and England, 18th-19th Century
Mixed media on paper, framed.
Different measures.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 100
Lot 470
Pair of briar and tortoise-shell boxes
18th-19th Century
Circular, with Mars and Jupiter profiles in high-relief on the covers, the inside lined in tortoise-shell.
Damages and breaks to one of the boxes.
Diameter 3.5 in.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 225
Lot 471
Female miniature
Probably France, early 19th Century
Pastels on paper, in elegant gilt bronze and mother of pearl frame with scrolled leaves on top.
4.7 x 3.7 in.
Starting price: € 50 | Sold for : € 150
Lot 472
Group of four miniatures depicting female figures
France and England, 18th-19th Century
Mixed media on paper, framed.
Different measures.
Starting price: € 250
Lot 473
Group of six miniatures depicting male figures
France and England, 18th-19th Century
Mixed media on paper, framed.
Different measures.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 200
Lot 474
Wooden snuff box with miniature
19th Century
With tortoise-shell internal rim, a rural scene miniature on the cover.
A crack on the cover's rim.
Diameter 3.1 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 100
Lot 475
Oval miniature
19th Century
Feminine miniature on ivory depicting the famous portrait of Beatrice Cenci by Guido Reni, mounted within a silver and gilt-metal frame with small beads set, the reserve visible under glass.
2.8 x 1.8 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 150