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
Landscape with knight
Oil on canvas.
34.25 x 37.80 in.
Starting price: € 5.000 | Sold for : € 5.500
Chest-of drawers
Piedmont, first half of 18th Century
In the manner of Luigi Prinotto, walnut veneer inlaid with floral motifs and ribbons in briar, ivory, kingwood and boxwood, with four drawers, on bracket feet. On top a central inlaid reserve with a rural scene with music players.
38.2 x 52.4 x 23.6 in.
Starting price: € 3.000 | Sold for : € 3.000
Bureau cabinet
Piedmont, 18th Century
Walnut, on onion feet, three drawers and a fallfront with drawers and compartments inside in the lower part, the upper part with shelves, with open doors with wrought iron grates.
88.6 x 46.1 x 21.1 in.
Starting price: € 2.000
Embroidered silk panel and a watercolor
19th Century
Silk panel embroidered with flower basket, in octagonal gilt-wood frame, together with a watercolor depicting a coat of arms with crown and motto in gilt and painted wood frame.
19.3 x 18.1 in.
Starting price: € 150
Sumak carpet
Caucasus, 1900 circa
With typical geometrical blue decoration on brick red ground.
Wear and defects.
165.4 x 106.3 in.
Starting price: € 350 | Sold for : € 400
Pair of landscapes with figures
Oil on canvas.
28.35 x 22.83 in.
Starting price: € 5.000 | Sold for : € 7.000
Flash sofa
Late 18th Century
Bench converted into a flash sofa, with removable shaped back, scrolled armrests, fluted obelisk legs, upholstered in ocher silk velvet.
Backrest with later stops, legs probably shortened.
40 x 89 x 30.3 in.
Starting price: € 600
Portrait of a Lady
Oil on canvas.
43.31 x 31.50 in.
Oval backed on rectangular canvas.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 1.600
Portrait of a gentleman
Oil on canvas.
45.28 x 37.01 in.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 2.200
Portrait of a gentleman
Pastels on paper.
6.69 x 4.53 in.
In gilt-metal frame.
Starting price: € 150
Group of five walnut armchairs
Mid-18th Century
Shaped, with scrolled legs and armrests, upholstered in embroidered fabric.
Two with ocher velvet inserts on the seat, wear.
33.3 x 26 x 19.9 in.
Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 600
Landscape with herds
Oil on canvas.
37.60 x 51.57 in.
Bearing on the reverse label 'Galleria Salga', Rome. In beautiful carved gilt-wood frame, minor lacks of color.
Starting price: € 2.000 | Sold for : € 2.000
Chest-of-drawers
Piedmont, 18th Century
Walnut veneer inlaid with fruit wood, with four drawers, a leaf decoration with ribbons on the front, on the top and on the sides.
Damages and restorations.
36.2 x 50.4 x 22.8 in.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 1.000
Group of twelve maiolica objects
Probably Faenza, 18th Century
Comprising four plain dishes, six soup dishes, a tray and a basin, a landscape with ruins and flower trophies decoration and trellis with birds decoration on the rim.
The tray 1 x 15 x 11.4 in.
Starting price: € 600
Walnut and leather 'Comoda'
18th Century
Shaped, with opening seat with missing internal lining, on scrolled legs.
24.8 x 12.4 x 18.9 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 325
Sideboard
Piedmont, 17th Century
Walnut carved with geometrical reserves, with two doors and three drawers on the frieze.
39 x 48.8 x 20.5 in.
Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 800
Two pairs of milking stools
19th-20th Century
Two walnut and two brown painted wood stools, tripod, with shaped handles at the back and at the seat.
28 x 18.3 x 11 in.
Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 600
Italian painters
Group of engravings depicting old Italian masters, within wooden frames.
9.84 x 7.09 in.
Starting price: € 300
Cabinet
17th-18th Century
Walnut, with bracket base, two drawers and two small side doors surmounted by two doors with shelves, with hanging top. Original hardware.
Wear and defects.
72.6 x 45.7 x 18.1 in.
Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 900
Le cours du Po
Paris, 1734
Etching on 5 sheets joined by Placide Augustin Dechausse and engraved Charles de Berey, contemporary hand-coloured borders, modern wooden frame with bronze inserts.
21.7 x 98.4 in.
Beautiful copy of the first and longest map of the Po ever
Starting price: € 1.000
Large cupboard
19th Century
Fir wood, with three doors surmounted by three drawers in the lower part, the upper part shaped, with three open shelves.
85.8 x 63.2 x 19.7 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 900
Pair of landscapes with figures
Oil on canvas.
27.95 x 23.23 in.
Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 1.500
Embroidered panel
19th-20th Century
Embroidered toile depicting a mythological scene within an octagonal reserve.
19.1 x 17.1 in.
Starting price: € 100
Corner cupboard
19th-20th Century
Walnut wood, triangular, with one door carved with hexagonal reserve, the upper top openable.
Built with ancient wood.
43.3 x 19.7 x 19.7 in.
Starting price: € 300
Neuchatel pendulum clock with console
1850 circa
Bordeaux lacquered wood with floral decoration, the white enamel dial signed by Robert with Arabic numerals for the minutes and Roman for the hours.
27.6 x 12.2 x 4.7 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400
Table lamp
19th-20th Century
Carved gilt-wood and gilt-metal, with three lights, with circular base and high central handle, with red fabric and paper lampshade.
22.6 x 14.2 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 100
French engravings on silk
France, probably 19th Century
Group of four engravings printed on silk, from 18th Century originals, in elegant 19th Century wooden frames and gilded stucco, minor defects.
13.4 x 10.2 in.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 150
Folding walnut table
Piedmont, 18th Century
Walnut, with rectangular top and semi-circular wings, two small drawers on the front, with turned legs joined by crosspiece.
Lacking of the drawers key.
28.3 x 52 x 22.8 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400
Group of eight gilt-copper dishes
18th-19th Century
Circular, plain, hammered.
Minor damages, scratches and wear to the gilding.
Diameter 11 in.
Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 250
Mythological scene with Hypnos
Oil on canvas.
19.49 x 13.78 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 850
Small center table
19th Century
Walnut, circular, tripod, with opposing scrolls legs, in 18th Century style.
26.8 x 29.5 in.
Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 250
Silver-gilt écuelle with dish
Paris, 1819-1838
Round, engraved and chiseled with laurel wreaths, domed cover and ring handle.
604 g
5.9 x 6.9 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 650
Ormolu-mounted porcelain bowl
19th Century255
Round, white porcelain with floral decoration, ormolu-mounted.
9.8 x 9.3 x 6.3 in.
Starting price: € 400
Small center table
Late 19th Century
Rosewood, winged, with fluted and partially turned column legs.
27 x 20.5 x 27.2 in. open.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 250
Small bureau cabinet
19th-20th Century
With three drawers under the fall-front and a door with mirror, with bracket feet.
70.9 x 23.6 x 16.1 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 200
Bureau à abattant
Lombardy, 18th Century
Briar with ebonized wood edges, with three drawers, six small drawers and a sliding secret inside the fallfront and two secret side drawers on the hat.
Restorations.
44.9 x 42.3 x 20.1 in.
Starting price: € 2.500 | Sold for : € 3.000
Pair of large silver-gilt salvers
London, 1812-1813
Tripod, on feet shaped as an eagle that seize a sphere, circular, shaped, the rim interrupted by floral clasps, on the top a band with embossed, chiseled and engraved decoration on opaque ground and a coat of arms in the center of a rocaille cartouche. Beautiful mercury
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Starting price: € 4.500 | Sold for : € 5.500
Silver-plated and gilt-metal candle-holder
18th Century
Tripod, embossed with rocailles, electrified.
40.6 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 100
Gilt-wood mirror frame
Veneto, 18th century
Shaped with leaf scrolls and turns.
Damages and lacks.
45.3 x 28.3 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400
Pair of gilt-bronze and hard stones decorative elements
18th Century
Octagonal shaped and domed base with malachite and lapis-lazuli plates set in and edges with falls of roses and ribbons, on the sides two handles with falls of roses, surmounted by cherubs sitting on rocks.
12.6 x 8.5 x 5.5 in.
Starting price: € 2.500 | Sold for : € 2.500
The wedding of Bacchus and Ariadne
Pen, brown ink and watercolors on paper.
10.24 x 14.96 in.
Starting price: € 6.000
Military camp desk
Veneto, mid-18th Century
Rectangular, the opening top veneered in briar with ribbon inlay both outside and inside, a central fallfront on the frieze, inside a front and two side drawers, on scrolled legs with goat feet.
Defects to the drawers opening, minor damages.
28.1 x 32.7 x 21.3 in.
Starting price: € 2.000
Pair of side-cabinets
Venice, 18th Century and later
Veneered in briar, strongly shaped, with a door surmounted by a drawer.
Replacements and remakes.
30.1 x 31.1 x 20.1 in.
Starting price: € 2.000
Small mirror frame
Northern Italy, 18th-19th Century
Rectangular frame with shaped top, in wood painted with floral motifs on a red ground.
20.5 x 15 in.
Starting price: € 200
Bureau à abattant
Venice, 18th Century
Veneered in briar, shaped, with three drawers, on bracket feet, with three small drawers inside the fall-front.
39 x 61 x 22 in.
Starting price: € 5.000 | Sold for : € 5.000
Capriccio with figures
Oil on board.
6.89 x 5.71 in.
In carved and gilded 18th Century frame, ancient inventory number on the back of the frame.
Starting price: € 35.000
Pair of mirror appliques
First half of 18th Century
Gilt-wood frames with rocaille scrolls, with shaped mirrors and two scrolled arms.
Non electrified.
24.4 x 15 in.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 1.000
Pair of carved gilt-wood stools
Piedmont, 19th-20th Century
In 18th Century style, round, on scrolled legs, the border with foliage scrolls and four à-jour clasps. Upholstered in mustard velvet.
11 x 13.4 in.
Starting price: € 400
PAIR OF SMALL CHAIRS
18th-19th Century
Pair of small chairs
18th-19th Century
Walnut, with scrolled back, upholstered in ivory fabric.
Height 31.10 in.
Starting price: € 150