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 526
Floor oil lamp
19th Century
Copper and wrought iron, stem with wrought iron scrolls base.
57.7 x 18.9 x 18.9 in.
Starting price: € 150
Lot 527
Sumak carpet
Caucasus, 1900 circa
On red ground with lozenge decoration in blue and cerulean.
Wear and defects.
116.1 x 57.1 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 200
Lot 528
Two carpets
Anatolia and Central Asia, 1880-1930
Prayer rug with ocher ground and typical Anatolian decoration, the other with geometrical decorations on a hazel and pink ground.
Wear and defects.
The larger 47.2 x 77.6 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400
Lot 529
Porcelain group
19th Century
Polychrome porcelain, depicting a girl sitting on a rock, holding a bouquet of flowers, with a dog, a goat and a putto.
8.3 x 6.7 x 5.7 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 200
Lot 530
Walnut and scagliola table
19th Century
Walnut tripod table with column leg, octagonal scagliola top, faux marble with geometrical decoration, a coat-of-arms in the center.
31.5 x 40.9 in.
Starting price: € 800
Lot 531
Pair of portraits 1848
Pastels on cardboard.
25.59 x 20.08 in.
One signed and dated on the reverse.
Starting price: € 400
Lot 532
Portrait of a lady
Pencil and pastels on paper.
7.68 x 6.50 in.
Signed right recto.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 100
Lot 533
Portrait of Carlo Alberto of Savoy
19th Century
Verre fixé within original frame.
Damages and restorations to the borders.
Diameter 5.5 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 500
Lot 534
Bureau Cabinet
Probably England, 19th Century
Walnut, with shield-shaped ebonized wood nozzles, the lower part on bracket feet, two drawers and a fall-front with five drawers and one compartment inside, the upper part with two doors and three compartments.
80.7 x 44.3 x 21.7 in.
Starting price: € 2.000
Lot 535
Portrait of a young boy 1870
Oil on canvas.
22.44 x 17.32 in.
Signed and dated lower right recto.
Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 1.200
Lot 536
Bureau
19th Century
With two drawers and two side doors.
Lot including also an armchair with round backrest.
Damages and lacks.
Bureau 33.1 x 44.9 x 23.6 in.
Armchair 32.3 x 25.6 x 19.7 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 225
Lot 537
Group of four chairs
Second half of 19th Century
With à-jour backrest and straw seat.
33.9 x 17.3 x 15.7 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 200
Lot 538
Gilt-wood mirror frame
19th Century
Engraved gilt-wood rectangular frame, the mirror replaced.
29.1 x 35.8 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 125
Lot 539
Folding table
19th Century
Veneered in walnut, with rectangular top and lyre legs.
30.3 x 78.7 x 35.4 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 540
Spanish girl
Patinated bronze, on rectangular black marble base. Signed at the back.
Damages to the marble base.
15.75 x 8.27 x 4.92 in.
Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 600
Lot 541
Balustrade nude
Carrara marble sculpture, depicting a veiled girl facing right, leaning against a griffin balustrade. Signed on the reverse.
22.64 x 9.45 x 6.10 in.
Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 1.700
Lot 542
Whip Girl early 20th Century
Gilt-bronze sculpture, on yellow marble column base. Signed at the base on the reverse.
Height 18.11 in.
Starting price: € 1.400 | Sold for : € 1.400
Lot 543
Study for 'll ritorno della sagra' 1865 circa
Watercolor on paper.
17.13 x 12.20 in.
It's probably a study for the oil dated 1880 'Il ritorno della sagra' published in Biscottini's Catalogue Raisonné.
Inscribed 'MB' lower right recto.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 1.100
Lot 544
Pair of silver cups with dish
France, 1840 circa
Silver guilloché, with ring handles.
950 silver
426 g
2.4 x 5.3 in.
Starting price: € 300
Lot 545
Ivory bas-relief
Yacov Panfilovich Seriakov, Russia, 1858
Ivory and wood, within a brass frame, depicting a male profile.
Signed in Cyrillic characters and dated at the base, under the arm.
0.8 x 3 x 2 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 600
Lot 546
Pair of armchairs
19th Century
Walnut, on scrolled legs, upholstered in light beige leather.
34.3 x 23.6 x 20.5 in.
Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 547
Head of a baby
Bronze with patina, signed at the base.
10.63 x 7.87 x 7.09 in.
Starting price: € 600
Lot 548
Ormolu-mounted porcelain bowl
Paul Milet, Sèvres, early 20th Century
Flambé turquoise round bowl, with gilt-bronze fluted ring base.
3 x 7.9 in.
Starting price: € 1.000
Lot 549
Portrait of a gentleman
Bronze with patina, signed on the lower right border with an ebonized wooden base.
18.11 x 14.57 x 10.24 in.
Beautiful example of the mature production of the great artist from Casale Monferrato, one of the greatest exponents of late liberty sculpture in Italy.
Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 800
Lot 550
Pair of book-holders
19th-20th Century
Representing two dark patina bronze horses on rectangular base in Siena yellow marble.
Damages.
3.9 x 5.5 x 3.1 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 125