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
Green stone sculpture
China, 20th Century
Depicting a landscape with figures, on shaped wooden base.
12.6 x 24 in.
Starting price: € 400
Lacquered and gilt wood chest
China, early 20th Century
The external surface lacquered in brown, the front side decorated with gilt flowering branches and butterflies, metal lock, standing on a wood pedestal.
12.2 x 29.3 x 18.9 in.
Starting price: € 400
Polychrome porcelain vase
China, 20th Century
Ovoid body, cylindrical neck with flared mouth, the handles shaped as stylized fishes, the whole surface with a dense ground of arabesques, flowers and animals, the body with a group of deities, the neck with children inside
Starting price: € 300
Polychrome porcelain vase
China, 20th Century
Circular base, semi-ovoid body, inclined shoulders, cylindrical neck with flared mouth, the handles shaped as stylized dragons, the whole surface with a dense ground of arabesques, flowers and animals, the body with two groups of children inside lobed reserves, the neck
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Starting price: € 400
Polychrome porcelain vase
China, 20th Century
Ovoid body, cylindrical neck with flared mouth, the handles shaped as stylized fishes, the whole surface with a dense ground of arabesques, flowers and animals, the body with a group of deities, the neck with children inside
Starting price: € 400
Two embroideries
China, 20th Century
Both embroidered in polychromy on a red ground with scenes with figures inspired by the traditional theatre, one with a silk ground the other with a rougher fabric. The embroideries were used on the set of the 1987 film 'The Last Emperor' directed by Bernardo
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Starting price: € 1.500
Porcelain baluster vase
China, 20th Century
Ovoid body, cylindrical neck with flared mouth, the handles shaped as stylized animals, a red enamel Buddhist lion on a side, the other side with a long inscription.
16.7 x 7.1 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 225
Two embroidered silk military banners
China, Qing dynasty, 19th Century
Both in the shape of a right-angled triangle, the innermost part decorated with a dragon flying amidst clouds in pursuit of the flaming pearl, the scene framed by a meander and by a frieze of stylized waves, the band for the insertion of the pole with two versions of
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Starting price: € 1.000
Polychrome porcelain vase with cover
China, 20th Century
Ovoid shape, the circular flat cover with cone finial, the decoration consisting on one side of a scene with female figures in a garden, on the other of a long inscription.
12.6 x 8.3 in.
Starting price: € 200
Pair of calligraphic scrolls
Attributed to Zhang Daqian, 1960
Two calligraphies mounted as vertical hanging scrolls, dated 1960.
40.9 x 10.6 in.
Starting price: € 800