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
Country fair
Oil on canvas
24.80 x 27.56 in.
Bambocciante master of international fame, Graneri expressed at the highest levels the poetics of bambocciate, embodied by paying attention to small everyday things, focusing on the life lived by the smallest part of the population.
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Starting price: € 8.000
Center desk
Probably Genoa, 18th Century
Veneered in walnut, with three drawers on the front, with scrolled legs and rectangular shaped top lined in partially gilt-leather.
Restorations and replacements.
29.7 x 47.6 x 25.6 in.
Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 750
Silver égoiste coffee pot
Probably Charles-Alexandre Bouillerot, Paris, 1797
Piriform, smooth, tripod, with ivory handle.
178 g comprising the ivory handle
4.9 x 4.5 x 2.4 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 700
Silver-gilt égoiste coffee pot
Cardeilhac, Paris, late 19th-early 20th Century
Piriform, smooth, with lambrequin beak and ivory handle.
94 g comprising the ivory handle
3 x 4.3 x 2.2 in.
Starting price: € 400
Silver égoiste coffee pot
Probably Aix-en-Provence, 18th Century
Piriform, smooth, on circular base, with scrolled ebony handle.
126 g comprising the wooden handle
4.3 x 4.3 x 2.6 in.
Starting price: € 400
Two silver égoiste chocolate pots and a silver égoiste coffee pot
France, 18th-19th Century
The two chocolate pots piriform, smooth, tripod , with turned ebony handle, with Paris 18th Century marks, the coffee pot piriform on a circular base, with turned wooden handle, Paris, second half of the 19th Century.
Damages, restorations. One of the chocolate pots also
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Starting price: € 700 | Sold for : € 700
Silver égoiste coffee pot
Giuseppe Balbino, Turin, late 18th Century
Piriform, smooth, tripod, with leaf lambrequin beak and turned wood handle.
Assay and contre-assay mark of Matteo Promis.
300 g
6.5 x 6.7 x 3.3 in.
Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 800
Silver-gilt égoiste coffee pot
Paris, probably 1782
Piriform, smooth, tripod, with lambrequin beak and turned ebonized wood handle, a coat-of-arms engraved on the body.
146 g
5 x 6.1 x 2.6 in.
Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 700
Silver égoiste coffee pot
Paris, late 18th Century
Piriform, smooth, tripod, with fluted lambrequin beak and turned ebonized wood handle.
150 g
4.8 x 4.9 x 2.8 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 700
Two pairs of gilt-bronze candle-holders
17th-18th Century
The two higher candle-holders with beautiful mercury gilding, tripods on a triangular shaped base with quadrangular feet and twisted stem. The two smaller tripods on a triangular base with feral feet and twisted stem.
The higher 23.2 x 5.9 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 500
Gilt-wood chandelier
Piedmont, 19th Century
Four lights chandelier, with fluted column stem and scrolled arms.
Wear and defects.
Height 33.1 in.
Starting price: € 200
Small library ladder
Piedmont, 19th-20th Century
Walnut, with three steps, transformable in a chair, with turned back and legs.
Wear and damages.
38.6 x 17.3 x 15.7 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 425
Group of four chairs
Piedmont, 18th Century
Shaped, with canneté seat and back, the back's rim centered by a flower clasp, on scrolled legs jointed by an X crosspiece.
One of the canneté seats broken.
38.2 x 25.2 x 19.7 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 425
Susanna and the Elders
Oil on canvas.
20.87 x 36.22 in.
The style of the drapery and flesh of the two old men leaning on the balustrade on the left of the painting would be unmistakably typical of Pietro Muttoni known as Pietro della Vecchia, known, as well as for his
Starting price: € 14.000
Country idyll
Oil on oak board.
15.55 x 12.80 in.
Bearing label 'The Boydell Galleries', Liverpool, and inventory number on the reverse.
Provenienza/Provenance
The Boydell Galleries, Liverpool.
Collezione privata, Milano.
Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 1.100
The bath of Diana
Oil on canvas.
8.07 x 13.78 in.
Pastiche taken from 16th-Century elements, bearing label of the 'Antichità Schubert', Milan on the reverse.
Provenienza/Provenance
Antichità Schubert, Milano.
Collezione privata, Milano.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 1.700
Cleopatra
Oil on canvas.
35.04 x 26.57 in.
The author of the painting is to be found among the painters belonging to the 'dei tenebrosi' current active in Venice in the 17th Century.
Starting price: € 3.000
Our Lady of the Goldfinch
White marble.
12.60 x 12.40 x 6.50 in.
On octagonal pink marble base.
Starting price: € 700 | Sold for : € 850
Danae
Oil on canvas.
56.30 x 79.72 in.
Artwork accompanied by photo certificate by Amadore Porcella who attributes the painting to Lambert Sustris.
Starting price: € 22.000
Lady with a basket of roses
Oil on canvas.
30.91 x 24.80 in.
Eglish frame.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 1.000
Portrait of a young lady
Oil on canvas.
24.80 x 19.68 in.
Bearing engraved label 'Giorgio Canella' on the lower border of the refined shaped carved gilt-wood frame. Artwork accompanied by certificate by Dr. Piero Dini who attributes it to Canella.
Starting price: € 3.000
Portrait of a young lady
Oil on canvas.
7.28 x 6.10 in.
Bearing unidentified monogram 'C.M.P.' and partially illegible date 1881 [or 1884] recto.
Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 275
Portrait of Elvira Bauer
Oil on canvas.
24.80 x 20.08 in.
Signed left and inscribed 'Elvira Bauer' upper recto.
Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 800
The slave trader
Painted bisquit.
12.99 x 6.69 x 6.57 in.
Bearing partially intellegible signature '[...] Raoul Italy', on ebonized wooden base.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 500
La source
Patinated gilt-bronze.
19.09 x 5.31 x 5.31 in.
On octagonal shaped bronze base, bearing an engraved plate on the front.
Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 800
Landscape with figures 1860
Oil on canvas.
50.39 x 70.08 in.
Signed and dated. Within coeval gilt-wood frame, bearing a plate indicating the author.
Starting price: € 14.000
The temptation
Bronze with dark patina.
18.31 x 11.22 x 8.27 in.
Bearing engraved signature to the green marble base.
Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 1.400
The young girl from Patras
Mixed media on paper in oval.
6.50 x 4.72 in.
Signed lower right recto.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 275
Dans le rêve
Gilt bronze.
26.97 x 9.65 x 9.45 in.
Signed and titled to the base.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 2.600
Salomè
Tempera on paper.
25.20 x 19.29 in.
Bearing embroidered border and iscribed 'Ricordo dell’ultimo anno di mia educazione'.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 200
The jasmine crown
Oil on canvas.
37.99 x 27.95 in.
Within an elegant 19th-Century frame that recovers a 17th-Century model.
Starting price: € 2.500 | Sold for : € 2.500
La cigale 1890
Oil on canvas.
28.15 x 18.70 in.
Signed and dated lower right recto.
Within elegant carved gilt-wood frame.
Starting price: € 3.500
Maenad
Bronze with dark patina.
14.57 x 22.83 x 9.45 in.
Signed on the oval shaped marble base.
Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 800
Lying nude
Patinated bronze.
6.30 x 24.41 x 11.42 in.
Engraved signature at the base.
Provenienza/Provenance
Asta Finarte - Semenzato, lotto n. 71, asta 20/10/2005.
Collezione privata, Milano.
Starting price: € 1.000
Leda and the swan
Bronze with dark patina.
12.99 x 19.68 x 11.81 in.
On black marble oval shaped base.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 550
Bordighera 1914
Oil on plywood.
27.56 x 43.31 in.
Signed, titled and dated lower right recto. Bearing stamp of 'Galleria G. Cerruti', Milan, and label of 'Mostra Commemorativa di Pompeo Mariani 1857-1927' dated 1958 on the reverse. Artwork accompanied by photo certificate by Galleria
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Starting price: € 6.000 | Sold for : € 7.000
Table clock
Jean-François Denière, France, second half of 19th century
Patinated gilt bronze and grey marble, on a quadrangular shaped base, column stem with quadrangular knot with laurel wreaths and garlands and hanging drapes, white enamel dial with gilt bronze
Starting price: € 2.000
Salomè
Bronze with dark patina.
7.48 x 16.54 x 11.81 in.
Signed on the shaped marble base.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 750
Female nude
Bronze.
6.50 x 11.61 x 5.31 in.
On oval shaped black marble base.
Starting price: € 300
Madonna and Child (Mackintosh Madonna)
Tempera on paper, border with fruit and vegetables, two cartouches with Latin inscriptions.
7.48 x 5.51 in.
Within a later aedicule frame with inserts in gilded and silvered metal.
Starting price: € 12.000
Salome with the head of the Baptist
Tempera on vellum with decorative border with branches, flowers, birds and insects.
8.66 x 6.69 in.
Within a wooden 17th Century aedicule frame, carved and gilded, with doors decorated with angels.
Starting price: € 12.000
Madonna and Child
Probably Tuscany, 16th Century
Painted and partially gilded wooden sculpture on hexagonal wooden base.
Widespread worming, some wear and lacks to the gilding and the painting.
48 x 11.8 x 9.1 in.
Starting price: € 1.500 | Sold for : € 1.800
Sideboard
15th-16th Century
Walnut, two drawers and two doors with sculpted panels with geometrical patterns, on quadrangular feet.
Restorations and replacements.
35.2 x 45.3 x 23 in.
Starting price: € 2.000
Venus discovers the body of Adonis 1550-1560 circa
Oil on canvas.
35.63 x 53.74 in.
Artwork in beautiful carved gilt-wood frame, restored and re-lined. The canvas, coming from a prestigious Roman private collection, seems to be a forerunner of the canvas already documented in the Mallandrino Collection (Messina) by Anna
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Starting price: € 15.000
The Holy Family with Saint John
Oil on canvas.
28.15 x 24.02 in.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 1.000
Coin cabinet
16th Century and later
Rectangular, a fallfront carved with arches, scrolls and a coat of arms at the base, with six reserves covered in red velvet, recent, with wrought iron plates applied, inside eleven small drawers and two compartments, with silver-plated metal plates of historicist taste
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Starting price: € 5.000
The Holy Family with Saint Catherine
Oil on canvas.
12.60 x 9.06 in.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 3.800