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 501
Porcelain case pendulum
France, 1830 circa
Polychrome porcelain case topped by a reclined female figure, on rectangular porcelain base with putti and dolphins.
18.5 x 15.7 x 9.1 in.
Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 825
Lot 502
Tripod table
First half of 19th Century
With column legs on triangular shaped base, circular white marble top and brass à jour gallery.
Damages and cracks to the marble top.
27 x 34.4 in.
Starting price: € 1.200
Lot 503
Large samovar
19th Century
Red, green and gilt painted wood, baluster shaped, with quadrangular base, cover with pine-cone on top, gilt-metal top.
24 x 10.4 in.
Starting price: € 500
Lot 504
Pair of maiolica service plates
Probably India Company, late 18th-early 19th Century
Oval, in white maiolica, with blue and gilt geometrical decoration rims, in the center a monogram within a scroll surmounted by a greyhound.
18.7 x 16.1 in.
Starting price: € 500
Lot 505
Portico clock
France, 1820 circa
On rectangular base, with four gilt bronze columns, white enamel dial with Roman numeral of the hours, signed 'F[ran]çois Allamand A PARIS', mechanical with anchor escapement, flush suspension, bell at half-hour on passage on a bell via starting wheel.
An engraved
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Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 506
Madonna with the Child
Indian ink on paper.
10.83 x 7.20 in.
The von Hess's drawing is a copy of the Paolo Veronese's
altarpiece in San Zaccaria, Venice.
Signed and titled lower right recto.
Starting price: € 800
Lot 507
Soup tureen with dish
19th Century
White marble carved, circular, landscapes carved rims, the center of the plate carved in high relief with large eagle with spread wings.
10.6 x 12.4 in.
Starting price: € 600
Lot 508
Walnut chest of drawers
19th Century
With three drawers and a smaller one on the frieze, with grey marble top.
The marble top of a later period. Some lack of veneer.
37.4 x 52.4 x 22 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 500
Lot 509
Silver sugar bowl
Naples, second half of 19th Century
Baluster body on circular base, with female-head handles and domed cover, an acorn on top.
334 g
5.9 x 4.5 x 3.5 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 325
Lot 510
Silver sugar bowl
Richard Morton & Co, Sheffield, 1775-1776
On quadrangular base, urn-shaped, with lambrequins, fall of ribbons and acanthus leaves, domed cover with a spire on top.
292 g
7.5 x 3.5 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400
Lot 511
Silver sugar bowl
France, mid-19th Century
On circular domed base, edges chiseled with laurel and eagle garlands, curled handles, domed cover with an acorn on top.
238 g
5.5 x 5.5 x 3.7 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 512
Group of two armchairs and seven chairs
19th Century
Walnut, with gondole backrests and turned legs, the armchairs with scrolled arms, upholstered in ivory velvet.
Damages and restorations.
Armchairs 32.7 x 21.7 x 22.4 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 850
Lot 513
Portrait of a lady 1849
Pastels and watercolor on paper.
14.96 x 11.81 in.
Signed and dated lower left recto. In elegant shaped brown velvet frame.
Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 750
Lot 514
Pair of armchairs
First half of 19th Century
Mahogany, with gondole back and column armrests, upholstered in striped canvas and trimmings.
35.4 x 23.2 x 19.3 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 400
Lot 515
Group of four seats
19th Century
Upholstered in striped silk, with a-jour back centered by a baluster, on scrolled legs. In the lot also a different armchair, Empire, with swan armrests and lyre back.
33.9 x 18.5 x 16.1 in.
Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 250
Lot 516
Roman senator
19th Century
Gilded and patinated bronze depicting a pensive Roman senator seated on lion skin with a letter in his left hand.
15 x 17.3 x 8.3 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 1.100
Lot 517
Mantel clock
19th Century
Gilt bronze, with black marble base, white enamel dial with Roman and Arabic numerals, a female figure from the ancient on top.
22.4 x 19.7 x 8.3 in.
Starting price: € 600
Lot 518
Library ladder
19th Century
Walnut with wrought iron applications, spiral-shaped, with five steps.
35.4 x 24 x 21.3 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 2.200
Lot 519
Table clock
Charles Oudin, Paris, second half of 19th century
Gilt-bronze and white marble, two cherubs depicting the allegory of hunting and fishing on top, white enamel dial with blue and gold enamel Roman numerals, signed 'Ch.s Oudin - Palais Royal 52'.
Minor damages
Starting price: € 2.000
Lot 520
Large shaped box
Mid-19th Century
Rosewood veneer inlaid with palmettes and leaf scrolls, urn-shaped, the interior lined in yellow fabric.
13 x 23.6 x 15.7 in.
Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 250
Lot 521
Small oval walnut table
19th Century
Tripod, with feral feet, the top with an inlaid linear thread in light wood.
Some damages to the veneer.
26 x 33.9 x 24.4 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400
Lot 522
Young lady with a basket of grapes 1866
Oil on canvas.
42.91 x 31.50 in.
Signed, dated and dedicated to the artist's brother in law Fortunato Farinoni, lower left recto. In elegant carved gilt-wood frame. Artwork registered at the 'Istituto Matteucci', Viareggio, under the number 402758 and accompanied by
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Starting price: € 4.000 | Sold for : € 4.000
Lot 523
Oak wood bergère
19th Century
Shaped, upholstered in striped fabric.
40.9 x 24.4 x 22.4 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 100
Lot 524
Group of ten walnut armchairs
Second half of 19th Century
With gondole biparted backrest and turned legs.
31.9 x 19.7 x 19.7 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 1.300
Lot 525
Fall-front cabinet
19th Century
Walnut, with three doors, a drawer on the frieze, with pigeon holes inside the fall front.
42.5 x 49.2 x 19.7 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
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