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 111
Wooden chest
China or Tibet, 20th Century
With metal accessories, decorated in polychromy on a black lacquered ground with figures in a landscape with architectures.
26 x 22 x 32.3 in.
Starting price: € 300
Lot 112
Two fabric ceremonial blankets
Ethnic minorities, South-East Asia, 20th Century
One decorated with geometrical motifs, the other with stylized animals.
The larger 46.5 x 59.1 in.
Starting price: € 240
Lot 113
Painted wood box with cover with three bamboo document holders
Southern China, early 20th Century
Rectangular section with removable flat lid, the external surface lacquered in black and decorated in polychromy with figures inside pavilions, the three cylindrical bamboo document holders with a carved decoration of zoomorphic motifs and characters.
Box 6.7 x 8.3 x 15
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Starting price: € 400
Lot 114
Embroidered silk robe
China, Qing dynasty, 19th Century
Rust-green ground, embroidery decoration of dragons, phoenixes and flowers.
Widespread wear and discoloring.
48.4 x 59.1 in.
Starting price: € 500
Lot 115
Three wooden boxes and covers
Tibet or Southern China, early 20th Century
Circular section and domed cover with a flat upper surface, painted in polychromy on a black ground with flower, fruit and bird compositions, along the sides a series of rectangular panels with interlaced wickers, inscriptions inside all three boxes, one with an
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Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 200
Lot 116
Silver bowl with cover
China, early 20th Century
Silver of very high fineness, in the archaic dou shape and partially gilded, with a hemispherical body supported by a stem and adorned by four dragons as handles, the domed lid with a spherical finial, the outside decorated with floral scrolls and fantastic animals. Lot
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Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 325
Lot 117
Embroidered silk furnishing fabric
Ethnic minorities, South-East Asia, 20th Century
The fabric with a red background depicting a powerful dragon embroidered with polychrome threads, surrounded by four ogival reserves with figures, framed with birds on flowering branches, at the bottom stylized waves with fantastic animals.
61.4 x 55.1 in.
Starting price: € 300
Lot 118
Armoire
China, early 20th Century
Evenly lacquered in a dark color, the front with a polychrome decoration of figures and animals amidst pavilions, the lower area with objects, along the profile geometrical patterns and stylized Shou characters ("long life"), the hinge of the two large doors in brass
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Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 800
Lot 119
Large illuminated fan-shaped manuscript
Ethiopia, Axum, 19th-20th Century
Illuminated manuscript on vellum on five joint sheets, with wooden covers and fan-mounted, with depictions of the stories of the New Testament.
Within a modern, painted quadrangular wooden frame.
48.4 x 54.3 in.
Starting price: € 2.000 | Sold for : € 2.000
Lot 120
Three small grey schist heads
Gandhara, 2nd-3rd Century
One depicting a bearded man, the other two the face of Buddha.
3.5 x 1.8 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 225