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
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
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
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
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
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
Furnishing fabric
Ethnic minorities, South-East Asia, 20th Century
Decorated with geometrical motifs inside concentric rectangular bands.
24 x 26 in.
Starting price: € 80
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
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
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
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