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 101
Three wooden powder flasks
South-East Asia or Southern China, 20th Century
Arched shape, each with the external surface with a carved decoration of geometrical and zoomorphic motifs.
The larger 9.1 x 2.4 x 1.6 in.
Starting price: € 300
Lot 102
Two embroidered fabric bags
Ethnic minorities, South-East Asia, 20th Century
Rectangular shape, both with an embroidered decoration of stylized flowers.
The larger 11.4 x 7.9 in.
Starting price: € 100
Lot 103
Silk embroidered furnishing fabric
Ethnic minorities, South-East Asia, 20th Century
The parallel bands of different colors embroidered in polychromy with motifs of flowers, birds and rocks of evident Chinese influence.
45.7 x 113.4 in.
Starting price: € 200
Lot 104
Altar table
China, early 20th Century
The sides joined by crossbeams forming a geometrical motif, the one on the front side interrupted by carved vegetal compositions.
35.8 x 76 x 19.7 in.
Starting price: € 800
Lot 105
Large apothecary cabinet
China, early 20th Century
With sixty deep drawers, the front of each with indication of the substances and an identification number written on paper glued on the wood, metal ring sockets.
68.9 x 58.7 x 25.2 in.
Starting price: € 1.750
Lot 106
Furnishing fabric
Ethnic minorities, South-East Asia, 20th Century
Decorated with geometrical motifs inside concentric rectangular bands.
24 x 26 in.
Starting price: € 80
Lot 107
Lacquered and gilt-wooden sign
China, Yunnan, Kunming, 19th-20th Century
Four carved good omen characters on red lacquered ground.
21.1 x 16.5 in.
Starting price: € 150
Lot 108
Partially embroidered furnishing fabric
Ethnic minorities, South-East Asia, 20th Century
The parallel bands of different colors embroidered in polychromy with motifs of flowers, birds and rocks of evident Chinese influence.
45.7 x 113.4 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 109
Silk embroidered fabric wallet
Ethnic minorities, South-East Asia, 20th Century
Folded into four compartments, inside decorated in the upper part with characters, in the lower one with scenes with buildings, figures and animals.
7.9 x 16.9 in. open
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 100
Lot 110
Five partially embroidered shaman sashes
Ethnic minorities, South-East Asia, 20th Century
Black ground, all with the extremities with a polychrome embroidered decoration of geometrical motifs and Chinese characters.
11 x 58.3 in.
Starting price: € 350
Lot 111
Wooden chest
China or Tibet, 20th Century
With metal accessories, decorated in polychromy on a black lacquered ground with figures in a landscape with architectures.
26 x 22 x 32.3 in.
Starting price: € 300
Lot 112
Two fabric ceremonial blankets
Ethnic minorities, South-East Asia, 20th Century
One decorated with geometrical motifs, the other with stylized animals.
The larger 46.5 x 59.1 in.
Starting price: € 240
Lot 113
Painted wood box with cover with three bamboo document holders
Southern China, early 20th Century
Rectangular section with removable flat lid, the external surface lacquered in black and decorated in polychromy with figures inside pavilions, the three cylindrical bamboo document holders with a carved decoration of zoomorphic motifs and characters.
Box 6.7 x 8.3 x 15
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Starting price: € 400
Lot 114
Embroidered silk robe
China, Qing dynasty, 19th Century
Rust-green ground, embroidery decoration of dragons, phoenixes and flowers.
Widespread wear and discoloring.
48.4 x 59.1 in.
Starting price: € 500
Lot 115
Three wooden boxes and covers
Tibet or Southern China, early 20th Century
Circular section and domed cover with a flat upper surface, painted in polychromy on a black ground with flower, fruit and bird compositions, along the sides a series of rectangular panels with interlaced wickers, inscriptions inside all three boxes, one with an
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Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 200
Lot 116
Silver bowl with cover
China, early 20th Century
Silver of very high fineness, in the archaic dou shape and partially gilded, with a hemispherical body supported by a stem and adorned by four dragons as handles, the domed lid with a spherical finial, the outside decorated with floral scrolls and fantastic animals. Lot
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Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 325
Lot 117
Embroidered silk furnishing fabric
Ethnic minorities, South-East Asia, 20th Century
The fabric with a red background depicting a powerful dragon embroidered with polychrome threads, surrounded by four ogival reserves with figures, framed with birds on flowering branches, at the bottom stylized waves with fantastic animals.
61.4 x 55.1 in.
Starting price: € 300
Lot 118
Armoire
China, early 20th Century
Evenly lacquered in a dark color, the front with a polychrome decoration of figures and animals amidst pavilions, the lower area with objects, along the profile geometrical patterns and stylized Shou characters ("long life"), the hinge of the two large doors in brass
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Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 800
Lot 119
Large illuminated fan-shaped manuscript
Ethiopia, Axum, 19th-20th Century
Illuminated manuscript on vellum on five joint sheets, with wooden covers and fan-mounted, with depictions of the stories of the New Testament.
Within a modern, painted quadrangular wooden frame.
48.4 x 54.3 in.
Starting price: € 2.000 | Sold for : € 2.000
Lot 120
Three small grey schist heads
Gandhara, 2nd-3rd Century
One depicting a bearded man, the other two the face of Buddha.
3.5 x 1.8 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 225
Lot 121
Grey schist fragment of a frieze with figures
Gandhara, 2nd-3rd Century
The high relief-decoration consisting of the Buddha on the right receiving three worshippers near a tree, on the higher zone a band with winged fantastic animals.
9.8 x 4.7 in.
Starting price: € 300
Lot 122
Two ceramic ewers
Iran, 11th-13th Century
Both unglazed and with globular body, one with cylindrical neck and flared mouth, the other with restored curved handle between the mouth and the shoulder, decorated with moulded geometrical motifs.
Height 8.3 in.
Starting price: € 400
Lot 123
Metal alloy padmasambhava
Nepal, 18th-19th Century
The founder of Tibetan Buddhism depicted seated, wearing a wide robe, a vajra in the right hand and a vessel in the left one, an elaborate diadem with an high cylindrical pinnacle to the center of the head.
Height 3.9 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 325
Lot 124
Group of four xylographies
Japan, second half of 19th Century
'Birds and flowers' compositions, one in polychromy by Hiroshige (1797-1858), the other three from a book by Umemine published in 1881.
The larger 8.4 x 11.7 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 200
Lot 125
Two porcelain bowls with cover
Vietnam, early 16th Century
Circular section, the exterior with a floral decoration in blue enamel, one faded; modern wooden bases.
From 1.97 x 2.95 to 2.36 x 3.54 in.
Starting price: € 100