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 451
Commode à demi-lune
19th Century
Fruit-wood, inlaid with geometrical threads, with three drawers.
Damages, cracks and detachments to the veneer.
33.9 x 54.7 x 22 in.
Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 800
Lot 452
Bureau
Late 18th Century
Veneered in walnut, with five drawers and a sliding top, on fluted legs.
Lot including also a walnut armchair with padded backrest.
Damages and lacks.
Bureau 32.7 x 51.2 x 25.2 in.
Armchair 29.1 x 24.8 x 19.7 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 700
Lot 453
Group of three carpets
Central Asia and Baluch, 1970 circa
Two on red ground, one on burgundy ground, all with geometrical decorations.
Wear and defects.
The larger 35.4 x 47.2 in.
Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 250
Lot 454
Commode
Piedmont, 18th Century and later
Rosewood, with inlaid twisted ribbon fillets, on tapered legs.
Replacements and remakes.
32.9 x 40.9 x 16.5 in.
Starting price: € 1.000
Lot 455
Demi-lune commode
Giuseppe Viglione, Turin, 1781
Inlaid in kingwood, maple wood and other essences, with linear motifs interrupted by gilt-bronze clasps on the frieze and with an elegant meander parquetry with trompe l'oeil tridimensional effect to frame the drawers, with gray marble top, three drawers on the front
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Starting price: € 10.000 | Sold for : € 15.000
Lot 456
Stories from Gerusalemme liberata
Tempera on canvas.
17.52 x 23.43 in.
Within elegant neoclassical wooden frames.
Starting price: € 15.000
Lot 457
Erminia among the shepherds
Oil on canvas.
15.35 x 24.41 in.
The scene comes from an episode of Torquato Tasso's "Gerusalemme liberata" in which Erminia gets up near the Jordan river and meets a hoary man who makes music with three young boys while weaving twigs to make a basket. The shepherds are
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Starting price: € 4.000
Lot 458
Domine quo vadis in an arcadic landscape 1777
Oil on canvas.
18.31 x 23.62 in.
Signed and dated 'Giuseppe Bacigalupo 1777' on the frame's reverse.
Starting price: € 3.000
Lot 459
Venus wounded by Diomedes
Oil on canvas.
30.71 x 35.63 in.
Famous depiction taken from Homer's Iliad, in which Venus, the goddess of love, trying to save her son Aeneas is wounded by Diomedes on the wrist. Not being a warrior goddess, she is saved by Iri who, having borrowed the horses from
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Starting price: € 6.000 | Sold for : € 9.500
Lot 460
Important frame
Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, last quarter of 18th Century
Carved gilt-wood, rectangular, shaped, with geometrical pattern carving, with large molding centered by a scroll surmounted by a shell and a bow between olive branches, from which rise two large flower and leaves wreaths falling to the sides.
106.3 x 76 x 5.5 in.
The
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Starting price: € 25.000