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
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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
Lot 126
Lacquered and gilt-wood Buddha
Burma, Shan, 18th-19th Century
Deity sitting cross-legged in the dyanasana position, the left hand resting on the feet with the palm open upwards, the right hand in the bhumisparshamudra, dressed in a robe that leaves part of the chest uncovered, the face in a meditative expression, elongated ear
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Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 950
Lot 127
Pair of lacquered and gilt-wooden kneeling figures
Burma, early 20th Century
Two monks depicted seated in a gentle pose, one with his hands folded to his chest in a sign of prayer, the other with his arms stretched at his sides, some details of the robes highlighted by the inlay of colored glass.
10.2 x 9.4 x 8.7 in.
Starting price: € 800
Lot 128
Gilt bronze standing Buddha
Thailand, 19th Century
Standing deity with the right arm extended along the side and the left arm bent at the elbow with the hand with open palm in the abhayamudra, dressed in a large robe that leaves the right shoulder uncovered, elongated ear lobes and a hemispherical usnisa protuberance,
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Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 900
Lot 129
Group of eight ceramic objects
Thailand, 15th-16th Century
Céladon glazed ceramic, four small jarlets, three human figures and an elephant.
The higher 4.33 in.
Starting price: € 250
Lot 130
Large decorative panel
Burma, early 20th Century
Embroidered fabric with inserts of metal rings, the kalaga-type panel depicting four elephants led by male figures at work to move trunks, in the center of the composition a tree.
39.4 x 72.8 in.
Starting price: € 200
Lot 131
Pair of Satsuma ceramic vases
Japan, Meiji period
Both decorated with a great profusion of gold, the body with large reserves with figures dressed in traditional robes, the remaining surface densely adorned with geometrical grounds.
17.7 x 6.1 in.
Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 800
Lot 132
Large bronze brazier
Japan, Meiji period
Circular section, the hibachi with a relief decoration to the exterior consisting of tigers hunting buffalos, on wooden pedestal with a stone upper side of coeval Chinese production.
Damages to the stone part of the pedestal.
13.8 x 21.3 in.
Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 1.300
Lot 133
Porcelain part dish service
Dresden, 19th Century
Comprising forty plain dishes, twelve fruit dishes, three oval serving plates, a soup tureen, two légumières, a sauce boat.
Damages, chips and restorations.
Different measures.
Starting price: € 1.500 | Sold for : € 1.500
Lot 134
Maiolica basket with dish
Wedgwood, 19th Century
White maiolica, with high flower openwork rim.
3.7 x 10.2 in.
Starting price: € 200
Lot 135
Pair of consoles
Veneto, 18th Century
Ocher and green lacquered wood, with red and green lacquered wood faux-marble top, shaped, with scrolled legs, carved with rocailles patterns.
29.9 x 44.1 x 19.7 in.
Starting price: € 1.200 | Sold for : € 1.600
Lot 136
Pair of decorative bases
18th Century
Carved gilt-wood, on octagonal base, trumpet-shaped, with godrooned and fluted body.
Some damages to the gilding.
13.8 x 10 in.
Starting price: € 500
Lot 137
Pair of decorative bases
18th-19th Century
Carved and partially gilt-wood, on rectangular base, with fluted baluster body, leaf scroll handles centered by a flower.
Only the front gilt, some damages to the gilding, minor wear.
13.8 x 11.4 x 5.9 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 500
Lot 138
Pair of decorative bases
18th-19th Century
Carved and partially gilt-wood, on quadrangular base, with baluster body godrooned at the base and double leaf scroll handles.
Only the front gilt, minor damages to the gilding.
13.6 x 14.8 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 500
Lot 139
Pair of landscapes with figures
Oil on canvas.
31.50 x 47.24 in.
Within elegant 19th Century frames.
Starting price: € 4.000 | Sold for : € 4.400
Lot 140
Pair of oak wood reclining bergères
19th Century
High backrest reclining in various positions thanks to a wrought iron lever placed under the armrests, scrolled armrests and legs, upholstered in green velvet.
45.5 x 30.3 x 28.3 in.
Starting price: € 500
Lot 141
Portrait of Polissena Ferrero della Marmora
Oil on canvas.
27.56 x 21.65 in.
Inscribed upper recto 'M. Ter. Polissena Ferrero della Marmora 1761. 1778.'
Artwork in excellent condition.
Starting price: € 700 | Sold for : € 700
Lot 142
Group of three armchairs
19th Century
Comprising two similar armchairs with wooden backrest partially inlaid in brass centered by a baluster vase, and a walnut bergère partially inlaid in brass, upholstered in green velvet.
Damages and losses to the brass inlay on one of the armchairs.
37.4 x 20.9 x 24.8 in.
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Starting price: € 400
Lot 143
Pair of landscapes
Oil on board.
17.72 x 19.68 in.
One depicting ancient vestigies of Rome, the other one a lake. An inscription on the reverse attributes the two works to Girelli.
Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 800
Lot 144
Pair of corner cupboards
18th Century
Light and dark green painted wood, a central partially openwork and mirror door, with shelves inside.
Restorations, repaintings, the shelves replaced.
35.8 x 28.7 x 17.3 in.
Starting price: € 1.500
Lot 145
Portrait of a gentleman with brown coat 1777
Oil on canvas.
35.43 x 26.77 in.
The elegant portrait is flanked by a coat of arms with a rampant lion on a gold field and three mountains, on the reverse partially intelligible inscription 'Marzo 1777 Milano'.
Starting price: € 2.000
Lot 146
Pair of gentlemen potraits with armor
Oil on canvas.
33.86 x 26.38 in.
Both oval, framed.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 600
Lot 147
Column
19th-20th Century
Green marble, with octagonal base and torchon colunm stem, divided in three parts.
43.3 x 13.4 x 13.4 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 148
Diana in an arcadic landscape
Oil on canvas.
13.78 x 20.87 in.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 1.000
Lot 149
Pair of demi-lune consoles
19th Century
Cream, green and black lacquered wood with geometrical decoration and acanthus leaves, with light pink marble top with green marble border, on obelisk legs.
Damages and restorations to the lacquer.
34.1 x 56.1 x 27.8 in.
Starting price: € 3.000 | Sold for : € 4.000
Lot 150
Pair of silver salt-cellars
Milan, after 1824
Tripods, with feral feet and masks, with blue glass cups and spherical central handle. Inside silk and blue velvet box.
312 g
5.7 x 5.7 x 2.8 in.
Starting price: € 250