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 301
The Queen of Sheba offers gifts to King Solomon
Oil on canvas.
46.46 x 59.84 in.
Bibliografia/Literature
M. Priarone, Andrea Ansaldo 1584-1638, SAGEP, Genova, 2011, pp. 250-251, n. 33.
Starting price: € 35.000
Lot 302
The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine with St. Joseph and St. John the Baptist
Oil on board.
11.02 x 13.39 in.
Starting price: € 4.000
Lot 303
Demi-lune console table
17th-18th Century
Walnut, with demi-lune top and opposing scrolls legs jointed by crosspiece.
29.5 x 50 x 23 in.
Starting price: € 600
Lot 304
Pastoral landscape 17th Century
Oil on canvas.
38.58 x 48.43 in.
Starting price: € 7.000 | Sold for : € 7.000
Lot 305
Landscape with ruins, animals and a figure, Diocletian thermal baths
Oil on canvas.
50.39 x 75.20 in.
The central image, depicting a pair of shepherds on horseback, is taken from a famous etching by the Dutch master Nicolaes Berchem (1620-1683), a prolific painter known for his pastoral landscape with mythological scenes and biblical
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Starting price: € 5.000
Lot 306
Large armchair
Probably Tuscany, 17th Century
Walnut, with leather and brass studs seat and backrest, two gilt-wood friezes at the back sides, turned armrests uprights and quadrangular legs joined by crosspiece.
60.2 x 28 x 24.4 in.
Starting price: € 500
Lot 307
Landscape with figures
Oil on English canvas and frame.
41.34 x 47.24 in.
Starting price: € 10.000
Lot 308
Desk
17th Century and later
Walnut, with shaped rectangular top surmounted by a small riser with two drawers, on opposing scrolls legs and wrought iron crosspiece.
Remakes and replacements.
37.4 x 39.4 x 23.6 in.
Starting price: € 350
Lot 310
The Temptation of Saint Anthony and a wizard's scene
Pair of oil on canvas.
14.76 x 18.70 in.
The two delightful paintings fit smoothly into the artistic climate that raged in the mid-17th Century, in the Tuscany of the acclaimed Lorraine engraver Jacques Callot, who printed fantasies like these, drawn from the variegated
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Starting price: € 15.000
Lot 312
Portrait of a gentleman
Oil on board.
17.72 x 12.99 in.
Expressive virile portrait in 17th Century style, which the oral tradition and a writing on the reverse of the painting propose to be Luigi Cherubini's (1760-1842), a great Italian composer and exponent of the classicist current.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 150
Lot 313
Chest-of-drawers
17th Century and later
Walnut, with four drawers and liftable top.
Replacements and restorations.
41.7 x 31.5 x 17.3 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 650
Lot 314
Saint Ursula 17th Century
Oil on canvas.
45.67 x 36.22 in.
Restorations.
The history of Saint Ursula is made famous by a medieval legend, Ursula was a very devoted princess who undertook a pilgrimage to Rome before her wedding, on her return to Cologne (383 AD is assumed) she was martyred
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Starting price: € 3.000 | Sold for : € 10.000
Lot 315
Christ carrying the cross 17th Century
Oil on canvas.
38.58 x 29.33 in.
In beautiful 18th Century carved gilt-wood frame.
Starting price: € 3.000 | Sold for : € 3.200
Lot 316
St. Jerome tempted in the desert
Oil on oval canvas.
18.11 x 23.62 in.
In beautiful early-18th Century carved gilt-wood frame.
Minor losses.
Starting price: € 8.000 | Sold for : € 8.000
Lot 317
Large floor bookstand
18th Century
Carved and blue and ocher painted wood, with red velvet top, crossing uprights joined by turned crosspiece.
56.3 x 19.7 x 30.1 in.
Starting price: € 700 | Sold for : € 700
Lot 320
Vestibolo con portico circolare 1708
Pen and watercolor on paper.
10.47 x 7.20 in.
Bearing inscription 'P.R. 708' on the reverse.
Provenienza/Provenance
Asta Christie's, Roma, 8 Luglio 1976, lotto n. 46.
Collezione privata, Bologna.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 200
Lot 321
Verona 1671
Etching on two joint sheets.
Traces of glue on the joints.
24.80 x 32.68 in.
Very rare etching executed in 16th Century style that shows the city in a precise and punctual way as it was in the mid-17th Century, decorated by three cartouches with the arms of the city.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 550
Lot 322
Augusta Praetoria Aosta Mid-17th Century
Etching on two joint sheets.
Light browning and some marginal spotting.
21.65 x 49.21 in.
Famous bird's eye view from Blaeu's Theatrum Sabaudiae.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 350
Lot 323
Brayde Oppidum, vernacule Bra Late 17th Century
Beautiful bird's eye view etching from one of the editions of "Theatrum Sabaudiae", some browning and spotting, in a modern frame.
20.47 x 24.41 in.
Starting price: € 200
Lot 324
Set of four xylographies
18th Century
Xylography on paper applied on canvas, depicting four masks.
6.3 x 4.5 in.
Starting price: € 300
Lot 325
Salome
Oil on canvas.
42.52 x 57.48 in.
First of the two Montalto brothers, Giovanni Stefano Danedi, he was an artist who "[...] did not completely follow in the manner of his teacher Morazzone, but he refined it on the example of his brother and painted with accuracy and love
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Starting price: € 8.000
Lot 327
Group of two armchairs and four chairs
17th Century
Turned walnut, upholstered in green and rose fabric.
Armchairs 34.6 x 24.8 x 18.5 in.
Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 800
Lot 329
Large wing table
17th-18th Century
Walnut, round, with turned legs joined by crosspieces, with wing opening.
30.1 x 65.7 x 69.7 in.
Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 800
Lot 330
Allegory with Juno and Minerva
Pen, watercolor and white lead on paper.
11.02 x 8.27 in.
Provenienza/Provenance
Asta Christie's, Roma, 8 Luglio 1976, lotto n. 49.
Collezione privata, Bologna.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 200
Lot 331
Pair of pharmacy vases
Probably Tuscany, 17th Century
Globular, in maiolica painted with fruit and leaves decoration, the name of the preparation in the center of the body.
Chips and damages.
9.8 x 7.5 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 950
Lot 332
Pair of floor candlesticks
19th Century
Carved walnut, with turned column stem, parchment lampshade.
Electrified.
46.7 x 15.7 in.
Starting price: € 300
Lot 333
Pair of candle-holders
18th Century
Carved gilt-wood, baluster-shaped, electrified.
40.6 x 10.2 in.
Starting price: € 150
Lot 334
Floor candlestick
19th Century
Column carved wood with octagonal base, twisted stem and Corinthian capital. Transformed into a three-light lamp.
54.1 x 11.8 x 11.2 in.
Starting price: € 300
Lot 335
Madonna with Child
Oil on canvas.
37.01 x 28.74 in.
Beautiful painting in the rococo taste, very decorative despite some restorations.
Starting price: € 3.000
Lot 336
Group of three Holy Water stoups
Italy, different ages
Marble and stone, two in the shape of a shell, one, smaller, oval.
Damages and lacks.
The larger 4.7 x 16.5 x 11.8 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 337
Nocturnal landscape
Oil on canvas.
22.83 x 28.35 in.
Bearing collection's fire mark.
Starting price: € 2.500 | Sold for : € 2.500
Lot 338
Fireplace set
19th Century
Including a pair of firedogs, a gallery and a support with tools in wrought iron, gilt-metal and gilt-bronze, the railing extendable, with two vases with laurel wreaths finials.
Wear.
11 x 34.3 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 200
Lot 339
Pair of firedogs
19th Century
Dark patina bronze, gilt-bronze and wrought iron, designed as a pair of tritons.
18.9 x 11.4 x 16.9 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 2.000
Lot 340
Young shepherd with herds
Oil on canvas.
40.16 x 50.79 in.
Minimal craquelure.
Starting price: € 4.000
Lot 341
Marble medallion
19th Century
Marble profile of Roman emperor within a circular wooden frame.
Diameter 9.1 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 342
Bronze bas-relief
19th Century
Dark patina bronze, representing the door of the Genoa Cathedral.
13.4 x 13.4 in.
Starting price: € 250
Lot 343
Bronze shield
Entirely embossed with figures of warriors and centered by Attila's profile, lined at the back in fabric and rope.
Diameter 21.7 in.
Starting price: € 300
Lot 344
Pair of Saints
Oil on board.
12.99 x 9.45 in.
In beautiful coeval gilt-wood frames.
Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 800
Lot 345
Wardrobe
Piedmont, 17th-18th Century
Carved walnut, with two panel doors with geometrical reserves, with beautiful original hardware.
Traces of grouting, wear.
80.3 x 72 x 21.3 in.
Starting price: € 1.000
Lot 346
Venus and Cupid 1610
Oil on original canvas.
53.15 x 40.94 in.
Signed and dated on the left on the stone 'VENTURA SALIM.I / PITT. E FECIT. / 1610'. Inscribed in red pencil on the frame's reverse 'Rest [aur]ò 1851 / Mellini Ventura Salimbeni f. 1610'.
Artwork declared of National cultural
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Starting price: € 25.000
Lot 347
Gilt-wood mirror frame
18th Century
With double side mirror frame and high volute three parts top, with curled feet.
65.9 x 38.6 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 500
Lot 348
Miscellaneous group of six dishes
18th Century and later
Two polychrome maiolica dishes, two in white and blue maiolica, one with a coat of arms on the rim and two white and blue porcelain chinoiserie dishes.
Wear and chips.
The larger diameter 10.2 in.
Starting price: € 150
Lot 349
Embroidered silk panel
18th-19th Century
Embroidered silk part of stole with lively floral decoration.
21.9 x 3.5 in.
Starting price: € 100
Lot 350
Pair of armchairs
Piedmont, 18th Century
Shaped, with backrest centered by a shell between leaf falls, scrolled legs and armrests, upholstered in petit-point embroidered fabric with flowers on crème ground.
Restorations and replacements, wear to the upholstering.
37 x 24 x 21.1 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 375