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
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From Thursday 17 to Tuesday 22 September 2020, free entrance from 10 am to 6 pm.
Sala Bolaffi, Torino, via Cavour 17
Lot 401
Pair of large floor candlesticks
Piedmont, 18th-19th Century
Carved gilt-wood, gilt-metal and crystals, tripod, on feral feet, with baluster stem, electrified with six lights.
84.1 x 15 x 15 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 500
Lot 402
Pair of paintings depicting Flora and 'Time revealing Beauty'
Oil on canvas and board.
35.43 x 47.24 in.
Starting price: € 2.000 | Sold for : € 3.000
Lot 403
Commode à abattant
Lombardy, mid-18th Century
Shaped, with curl feet, with three drawers and a fall front with four small drawers inside.
40.2 x 31.5 x 17.7 in.
Starting price: € 2.000 | Sold for : € 2.000
Lot 404
Silver sugar bowl
Probably Piedmont, early 19th Century
On circular base, baluster-shaped, smooth, with geometrical decoration borders, handles in form of horse heads, the circular cover with ring-shaped handle.
190 g
5.5 x 5.1 x 3.5 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 405
Silver sugar bowl
Turin, end of 18th Century
Quadrangular base, baluster-shaped, with water-leaf borders and an engraved floral decoration, geometrically scrolled handles, strongly graded cover.
238 g
6.3 x 4.9 x 3.1 in.
Starting price: € 500
Lot 406
Tea and coffee set
Carlo Balbino, Turin, after 1824
Comprising teapot, coffee pot, milk jug and sugar bowl, with poly-lobed piriform bodies, scrolled handles, a teapot and a coffee pot with ivory rings inserted into the handles. In the lot also a silver flower tea strainer, a silver-plated égoiste teapot, a silver-plated
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Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 900
Lot 407
Pair of silver candlesticks
Giuseppe Felice Borrani, Turin, late 18th Century
Smooth, with fluted column stem and palmettes rims and fluted knot.
872 g
10 x 5 in.
Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 800
Lot 408
Silver coffee pot
Italy, 20th Century
Piriform, with twisted flutes, wooden handle, with twisted lambrequin beak, with flowers on top.
560 g comprising the wooden handle.
9.1 x 6.7 x 3.5 in.
Starting price: € 250
Lot 409
Portraits of Vittorio Amedeo II and Anna Maria of Orléans
Oil on canvas in oval.
29.92 x 23.23 in.
Beautiful pair of portraits of the Queen and the so-called Savoyard Fox, the first King of the House of Savoy, the one who made Piedmont one of the most important among the
Starting price: € 3.000
Lot 410
Important maiolica presentation dish
Moustier, 1720 circa
Oval, in maiolica decorated in underglaze blue in the 'Berain' manner with King Vittorio Amedeo II coat-of-arms in the center, with the arms of the Kingdom of Sicily (1713 - 1720) and of the Kingdom of Sardinia (1720 - 1730).
A fixed passing transversal crack.
26.4 x 21.3
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Starting price: € 2.000 | Sold for : € 6.500
Lot 411
Silver and silver-gilt chalice
Italy, 18th-19th Century
On circular domed base, with pairs of putti heads embossed within reserves on opacified ground and acanthus leaves rim, baluster stem with pairs of putti heads, silver-gilt glass mounted on silver base with putti heads alternated with baskets of flowers within reserves
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Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 2.400
Lot 412
Wooden sculpture
18th Century
Carved, painted and gilt wood, depicting a bishop with miter.
15.7 x 9.8 x 4.7 in.
Starting price: € 200
Lot 413
Silver pyx
Turin, 1803-1809
On circular domed base with beaded edge and leaf decoration on embossed and chiseled geometrical reserves, smooth silver-gilt bowl with acanthus silver base, domed cover partially fluted within geometrical decorations and acanthus leaves.
718 g
12.6 x 5.1 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 2.400
Lot 414
Miscellaneous group of objects
Including a pair of painted wood sculptures depicting two heads of angels, a wooden sculpture depicting the Madonna and Child and other objects.
The angels 9.1 x 4.7 x 3.5 in. circa
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 475
Lot 415
Large maiolica stoup
Liguria, 18th-19th Century
White and blue maiolica, in the form of a shell, the Good Shepherd at the center.
3.9 x 15 x 14.6 in.
Starting price: € 200
Lot 416
Comunione di San Girolamo 18th Century
Oil on canvas.
24.80 x 18.50 in.
18th Century copy based on the model of the masterpiece kept in the Vatican Museum painted between 1611 and 1614 by Domenico Zampieri, known as Domenichino.
The work depicts the moment when St. Jerome, now ninety years old and on his
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Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 800
Lot 418
Chandelier
19th Century
Gilt-tole and white porcelain, with six scrolled arms with flowers and leaves.
Damages to the gilding, lacks. Some lights applied in addition on the arms and on top of the chandelier.
Height 31.9 in.
Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 1.900
Lot 419
Pair of single bed backs
19th Century
Headboard and footboard in walnut carved with panels and reserves, with curly legs.
46.7 x 41.9 x 1.6 in.
Starting price: € 200
Lot 420
Lady portrait
Piedmontese school, 18th Century
Oil on canvas, mounted within a decorative shaped recent mirror frame in carved and painted wood with roses falls.
Mirror frame 63 x 55.1 in.
Portrait 31.5 x 25.6 in.
Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 1.300
Lot 421
Kazak carpet
Pakistan, 20th Century
Cerulean ground with lozenge pattern, and double border on a beige and black ground with floral decorations.
Wear and defects.
72.4 x 65.7 in.
With purchase certificate.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 250
Lot 422
Two maiolica pharmacy
18th-19th Century
White and blue maiolica, baluster shaped, the preparation name in black at the center of the body.
Damages and lacks.
The higher 7.7 x 4.9 in.
Starting price: € 200
Lot 423
Three landscapes with figures
Oil on rectangular canvas in oval.
17.72 x 13.78 in.
Starting price: € 1.500 | Sold for : € 1.500
Lot 424
Fireplace mirror
19th Century
Carved gilt-wood, shaped, a leafy clasp at the center of the upper part, from which two falling laurel wreaths depart.
Minor lacks and damages, the mirror replaced.
40.6 x 61 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400
Lot 425
Kuba Carpet
Caucasus, 1900 circa
Cream ground with geometrical and floral decoration, border in blue and burgundy ground.
Wear and defects.
57.9 x 101.6 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 426
Cartel d'applique with console
Switzerland, second half of 18th Century
Green lacquered wood with floral decoration, mounted in bronze, topped by a vase. White enamel dial with Arabic numeration for minutes and Roman for hours, ringtone at hours and quarters.
41.3 x 16.9
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 1.000
Lot 427
Group of four large appliques
19th Century
Gilt-bronze and applied glasses, with eight lights, the arms strongly scrolled.
27.6 x 20.5 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 750
Lot 428
Pair of doors
19th Century
Walnut, carved in panels centered by rhomboidal decors.
94.5 x 27.6 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 429
Nymph and faun 1721
Oil on board.
11.81 x 12.20 in.
Signed and dated 'Meskens f[ecit] 1721' lower left recto.
Starting price: € 3.000
Lot 430
Group of three etchings
Amsterdam, 1725
Etchings from the Theatrum Statuum Sabaudiæ printed by Blaeu between the late 17th and early 18th Century. The lot comprises the views of Pecetto, San Giorgio and the Villa della Regina in Turin.
22 x 25.6 in.
Starting price: € 600
Lot 431
Mirror frame
Piedmont, 18th Century
Carved gilt-wood, with high flowers and leaves scrolls top, with lateral flower falls.
Damages, lacks and restorations.
73.2 x 39.6 in.
Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 800
Lot 432
Large console with mirror
19th-20th Century
Carved painted crème and gilt wood, in the 18th Century style, shaped, with large leaves scrolls , the console scrolled legs joined by an X crosspiece centered by a shell, the mirror frame top centered by a flowers and fruits basket.
Console 41.3 x 56.7 x 18.1 in.
Mirro
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Starting price: € 600
Lot 433
Carpet
Caucasus, 1900 circa
Geometrical decoration on an antique pink ground, and border with floral decoration on ivory ground.
78.7 x 51.2 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 325
Lot 434
Silver-gilt tea and coffee service with tray
Bossard & Sohn, Switzerland, early 20th Century
Including shaped rectangular tray, teapot, coffee pot, milk jug, sugar bowl and bon-bon holder, piriform, fluted, a chiseled and engraved decoration with grotesques and falls of flowers and ribbons on opacified ground, teapot and coffee pot with ebony handles.
4328 g
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Starting price: € 2.000 | Sold for : € 2.400
Lot 435
Silver and silver-gilt tea and coffee service with tray
Italy, 20th Century
Including oval shaped tray, teapot, coffee pot, milk jug and sugar bowl, piriform, fluted, with masks grips and beaks, an engraved and chiseled decoration on opacified ground on the necks, gilt inside, with ebony handles.
5268 g comprising the ebony handles.
Tea pot 10
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Starting price: € 1.500 | Sold for : € 2.200
Lot 436
Small silver salver
Birmingham, 1906-1907
Circular, shaped, with godrooned rim interrupted by palmettes clasps, a crest and a motto engraved at the center.
258 g
0.9 x 8.3 in.
Starting price: € 300
Lot 437
'Ironstone China' earthenware tea set
Mason's, England, early 20th Century
Comprising eight tea cups with plate, four rectangular shaped serving dishes and a ladle, decorated with chinoiserie in white, red, blue and gold.
Minor wear.
Serving dishes 10.8 x 9.3 in.
Starting price: € 400
Lot 438
Small bureau cabinet
England, 19th Century
Partially veneered in briar, with upper door, the lower part with three drawers and inside the fall-front four small drawers and four pigeon holes, on scrolled legs with eagle feet that grab a sphere.
The upper door transformed with glass panel, but the original briar
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Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 475
Lot 439
A fantasy stork, a spoonbill and a butterfly
Etching and aquatint colored with polychrome tempera.
Restorations and some small tears.
18.50 x 26.77 in.
Rare engraving, one of 12 produced by Vittorio Raineri (who signs himself as an engraver on the lower border of the plate) from original drawings that his father
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Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 525
Lot 440
Mirror frame
Piedmont, late 18th Century
Carved gilt-wood, shaped, with double mirror frame, high top centered by a flower vase, lateral leaf falls, on fluted baluster feet
59.1 x 26.4 in.
Starting price: € 500
Lot 441
Group of three armchairs
Piedmont, 19th Century
Comprising a pair of walnut armchairs, with shaped back and fluted column legs and another one, different, in walnut, with rectangular back and fluted column legs.
35 x 22.4 x 19.7 in.
Starting price: € 300
Lot 442
Pair of silver candlesticks
Italy, 20th Century
With three lights, on oval shaped base, with scrolled arms.
Weighed at the base, electrified.
10.8 x 13.2 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 500
Lot 443
Silver tray
Rome, 797-1800
Oval, with fruit wreath embossed and chiseled rim, two a-jour handles inside the rim, an engraved marquis coat-of-arm at the center. Marked also with Naples 19th Century marks.
Dents and wear.
784 g
0.8 x 15.2 x 11.4 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 475
Lot 444
Tea and coffee service
Italy, 20th Century
Including teapot, coffee pot, sugar bowl, milk jug and water jug, with wooden handle and fluted piriform body.
2.112 g comprising the wooden handles
Water jug 7.3 x 8.3 x 5.1 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 800
Lot 445
Silver coffee pot
Jacques Gabriel André Bompart, Parigi, 1803-1809
Piriform on a circular base, with turned ebonized wooden handle.
950 silver
308 g comprising the wooden handle
6.9 x 7.1 x 3.3 in.
Starting price: € 300
Lot 446
Silver and silver-gilt sewing set
France, 19th-20th Century
Within leather, velvet and silk fitted case.
2.2 x 8.7 x 4.9 in.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 150
Lot 447
Pair of silver candlesticks
Naples, 1790 circa
On circular domed base, with column stem, a water leaves chiseled and engraved decoration, with beaded rims.
616 g
9.6 x 4.9 in.
Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 1.600
Lot 448
Tole painted lantern
18th Century
Square, painted in yellow, red and green tole, with foliage decoration applied to the edges.
Partially repainted, some glasses replaced.
19.7 x 13.4 x 13.4 in.
Starting price: € 300
Lot 449
Tole painted chandelier
19th Century
Green painted tole, with eight lights on scrolled arms, the central part with laurel wreath.
Repainted. In the lot also a ceiling hook, not painted in green.
31.1 x 41.7 x 25.6 in.
Starting price: € 400
Lot 450
Pair of appliques
First half of 19th Century
Silver-plated copper, with oval base and tapered column stem, entirely fluted, with three lights with two scrolled arms and a central candle holder.
Not electrified. Minor damages to the silvering.
11 x 11.8 x 7.1 in.
Starting price: € 300