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
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From Thursday 17 to Tuesday 22 September 2020, free entrance from 10 am to 6 pm.
Sala Bolaffi, Torino, via Cavour 17
Lot 476
Tortoise-shell snuff box
19th Century
Circular, with gilt-metal internal rim.
Minor wear, on the cover traces of an applied crown, now missing.
Diameter 3.1 in.
Starting price: € 100
Lot 477
Group of four profiles
First half of 19th Century
Wax and stone sculptures, one depicting the famous politician, historiographer and writer Carlo Botta, one Napoleon and two others, in ebony, ebonized wood and gilt-metal.
Carlo Botta portrait 5.3 x 5.3 in. including the frame
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 700
Lot 478
Portrait of a gentleman 1829
Pastels on paper.
3.15 x 2.76 in.
Signed and dated lower right recto, in beautiful gilt bronze frame.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 850
Lot 479
Ivory ballet carnet
Italy, 19th Century
Rectangular, with a lady miniature within a gilt-metal oval frame, with two ivory pages inside, with a small metal and ivory pen supported by a metal chain.
3 x 2 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 100
Lot 480
Pair of miniature sculptures
Sicily, 19th Century
Ivory and glass, with ivory column stem, one depicting the Crucifixion, the other one a winter scene.
The higher 5.4 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 325
Lot 481
Group of six boxes
19th Century and later
Three tortoise-shell round small boxes, one in briar with bas-relief of landscape with architectures on the cover, one silver-plated metal and one rectangular in inlaid wood.
Breaks and lacks.
The briar box 3.5 in.
Starting price: € 200
Lot 482
Two silver-gilt and enamels eggs and a caviar bowl
Russia, 20th Century
With Fabergé and silversmith's marks 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
Eggs 4.1 x 2.8 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 1.000
Lot 483
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.
Tiger's eye duck 4.7 x 2 x 2.2 in.
Starting price: € 200
Lot 484
Two wooden and silver walking sticks
Russia, early 20th Century
Both wooden, with silver tip and silver, silver-gilt and vitreous pastes knob in the form of a bulldog with openable mouth.
Bearing Fabergé mark and I.P. initial.
The longer 35.8 in.
Starting price: € 2.000
Lot 485
Group of silver and silver-plated objects
Comprising a group of twenty-four silver glasses, mostly Russia, 19th-20th Century, a set of twelve silver-gilt and enamels small spoons and another one different, a set of six silver-gilt and enamels small forks, a silver cake spoon, a set of three silver and
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Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 400
Lot 486
Icon on board
Saint Petersbourg or Central Russia, mid-19th Century
Depicting Saints Constantine and Elena.
8.9 x 6.7 in.
Starting price: € 500
Lot 487
Icon on board
Saint Petersbourg or Central Russia, mid-19th Century
Depicting the nativity of the Virgin.
8.9 x 6.7 in.
Starting price: € 600
Lot 488
Orthodox icon on board
19th Century
Depicting a Saint who indicates the sky.
8.7 x 6.7 in.
Starting price: € 350
Lot 489
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 larger 2.8 x 2.2 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 450
Lot 490
Miniature chest-of-drawers
Piedmont, 18th-19th Century
Walnut, with two drawers, brass handles and friezes, on tapered legs.
Minor damages to the top, wear.
6.8 x 11.8 x 6.5 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 200
Lot 491
Kazak carpet
Caucasus, 1880 circa
Typical geometrical decoration on a red ground and a border on blue ground.
Wear and defects.
82.7 x 70.9 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 492
Kirman Carpet
Persia, 1900 circa
Arabesque decoration on a red and blue ground, border with elegant floral motifs.
63 x 96.9 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 200
Lot 493
Ceramic anthroporphic whistle vase
Peru, Chimú culture, 10th-12th Century
Globular body vase joined trough a bridge-shaped handle to a seated anthropomorphic figure.
5.9 x 7.9 x 3.5 in.
Starting price: € 500
Lot 494
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: € 600 | Sold for : € 1.000
Lot 495
Retour d'Egypte oil lamp
Probably Rome, early 19th Century
On yellow and white marble rectangular base with oval mount, with patinated bronze stem depicting an Egyptian figure holding a double oil lamp and the snuffer with chain, with bronze and fabric arch lampshade.
Minor defects, damages to the lampshade fabric.
16.1 x 6.1 x
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Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 1.800
Lot 496
Pair of Retour d'Egypte half columns
19th Century
Plaster carved with hieroglyphics, scenes of everyday life and Egyptian gods, with modern wooden base.
82.7 x 23.6 in.
Starting price: € 1.000
Lot 497
Sunset over the Atlas
Oil on canvas.
39.57 x 25.00 in.
With the opening of the Suez Canal, the appeal of the Near East had become more relevant than ever, and the demand for Orientalist-themed works increasingly important on the market also thanks to the resounding international success of
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Starting price: € 10.000 | Sold for : € 10.000
Lot 498
Mattino nei dintorni di Sultaniè 1858
Oil on canvas.
10.63 x 18.35 in.
Signed and dated lower right recto.
Bearing on the reverse labels of 'Galleria d'arte Fogliato', Turin and 'Galleria Il Prisma', Cuneo.
Pasini's passion for the Near East was born during an incredible diplomatic mission in Tehran in
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Starting price: € 30.000
Lot 499
Walnut dressing table
First half of 19th Century
With shaped base and column legs with gilt-bronze finials, with two drawers, a mirror and five compartments inside the top.
Damages to the top, the inside mirror broken.
31.5 x 26.8 x 18.5 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400
Lot 500
Three biscuit figures
19th Century
Representing two female figures from the ancient, one of which marked 583 and inscribed 'biscuit de Vienne' and a faun.
The faun broken and restored.
11.8 x 5.1 x 3.5 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 200