AUCTION
Thursday 22 April 2021, 2 pm CET
Turin, Sala Bolaffi, via Cavour 17
VIEWING
From Saturday 17 to Thursday 22 April from 10 am to 6 pm (Sunday included)
Turin, Sala Bolaffi, via Cavour 17
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Ceiling lamp
19th-20th Century
White painted metal in the form of a flower.
18.1 in.
Starting price: € 100
Mountain landscape with carriage
Watercolor on cardboard.
10.24 x 15.35 in.
Signed lower left recto.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 800
Swivel armchair
England, 19th Century
Leather with studs and walnut feet. Damage and wear to the leather.
46.9 x 27.2 x 24.8 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Game table
19th Century
Ebonized wood, with brass inserts and gilt-bronze applications, inside top covered in green cloth.
30.1 x 34.3 x 16.5 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400
Officier clock
19th Century
Gilt-bronze and strass case, enamel dial with Arabic numerals, within leather case.
Front glass lacking, wear to the case.
3.5 x 2.6 x 2.1 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400
Officier clock
London, 1907-1908
Rectangular wooden and partially guilloché silver case, enamel dial with Arabic numerals.
5.9 x 3.3 x 1.8 in.
Starting price: € 400
Group of three officier clocks
20th Century
One larger and two smaller officier clock, one with dial signed "Janetti Padre & Son" and one with a dial signed "Musy Père et Fils, Horlogers du Roy, Turin".
Different measures.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 400
Portico clock
19th Century
Walnut inlaid and bronze, with twisted columns, white enamel dial with Roman numerals.
17.7 x 8.8 x 5 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 200
Table clock
Jean-François Denière, France, second half of 19th century
Patinated gilt bronze and grey marble, on a quadrangular shaped base, column stem with quadrangular knot with laurel wreaths and garlands and hanging drapes, white enamel dial with gilt bronze
Starting price: € 2.000
Oriental female figure
19th Century
Patina and vivid colors painted bronze.
21.7 x 13.8 x 9.1 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 650
Two carpets
20th Century
Both with Mazandaran design.
103.1 x 55.1 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 175
Nynph and the eagle
Patinated bronze sculpture on red marble quadrangular base.
25.59 x 14.96 x 11.81 in.
Starting price: € 1.500 | Sold for : € 1.500
Automaton with an orchestra of monkeys
Early 20th Century
Wooden theatre with painted backdrop and orchestra made up of 10 moving monkeys, electrified music box in the lower part, shaped frame with high top containing coat of arms within an oval cartouche. On the drum of the central monkey the arms of the French Republic.
48 x
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Starting price: € 4.000 | Sold for : € 8.900
Two carpets
20th Century
Both of Caucasian style, the largest monogrammed EB BD.
120.9 x 59.1 in.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 275
Pair of large candelabra
Rome, 19th Century
Gilt and patina bronze, tripods, with dragons at the base, column stems, with five lights, a heron on top.
32.3 x 9.6 in.
Starting price: € 2.800
Two carpets
Persia, 20th Century
The larger one with a small medallion design.
74.8 x 48.8 in.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 275
Folding fan
19th Century
Painted paper fan with a gallant scene and bone sticks, inside a wooden and cardboard case covered in blue velvet and passemanerie.
18.1 x 10.2 in.
Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 250
Table clock
19th Century
Gilt-bronze case with egyptian columns, sun-shaped pendulum, a swan on top, white enamel and gilt-bronze dial, with Roman numerals.
16.5 x 8.8 x 3 in.
Starting price: € 700 | Sold for : € 900
Group of seven medals
1834
Seven medals awarded by Francesco IV of Habsburg-Este in a cardboard and silk case with FP monogram on the lid. The larger medal inscribed "Francisco IV auspice universae rei literariae praeses" and dated 1834.
Wear to the case.
Case 0.8 x
Starting price: € 600
At the mirror
Oil on canvas.
25.59 x 20.47 in.
Signed lower right recto, within an elegant Empire frame by the Sabatelli firm of Milan.
Starting price: € 3.000 | Sold for : € 7.500
Roman matron
Brown patina bronze sculpture depicting a Roman matron lying on a triclinium covered with a lion's skin.
Illegible sign at the base.
6.69 x 21.26 x 13.78 in.
Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 1.100
Young lady with flowers
Oil on canvas.
24.21 x 16.54 in.
Signed lower right recto.
The works of the Florentine painter Andreotti transport his scenes of serene everyday life in a dream universe, often inhabited by women who seem to move to the rhythm of the notes of a concert made of grace
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Starting price: € 15.000 | Sold for : € 22.000
Pair of crater vase
20th Century
White painted and gilt porcelain, handles with masks.
7.9 x 6.3 in.
Starting price: € 200
La cigale 1890
Oil on canvas.
28.15 x 18.70 in.
Signed and dated lower right recto.
Within elegant carved gilt-wood frame.
Starting price: € 2.800
The kiss
Brown patina bronze sculpture on quadrangular black marble base.
Signed at the base.
6.69 x 7.28 x 14.57 in.
Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 1.800
Boy with snake
Bronze with patina.
12.20 x 6.30 x 5.51 in.
Signed on the base.
Starting price: € 700 | Sold for : € 1.000
Vin. Gemito scultore 1921
Bronze with patina.
10.63 x 7.87 x 6.69 in.
Titled, dated and signed on the back of the bust.
Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 3.600
Rustic barnyard
Oil on board.
15.75 x 19.29 in.
Signed lower left recto, dated, titled and signed on the verso.
Starting price: € 350 | Sold for : € 350
Bathers at the rock 1916
Oil on board.
15.16 x 19.68 in.
Signed on the lower right recto, signed and dated on the reverse, stamp of the Galleria Accademia di Torino.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 500
Serra di Pamparato 1933
Oil on board.
9.25 x 7.28 in.
Starting price: € 350 | Sold for : € 350
Scogli a Noli 1928
Oil on cardboard.
19.49 x 15.75 in.
Signed and dated on the verso.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400
Bronze centerpiece
19th-20th Century
In the form of nacelle, with mermaid and triton, on circular base supported by dolphins.
21.5 x 15.4 x 7.7 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 350
Silver box
20th Century
Rectangular, shaped, embossed and chiseled with floral decoration on opaque ground, silver-glit inside, an oval malachite plaque on the cover.
3 x 10.6 x 8.7 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 606
Large silver soup tureen with dish
Gorra, Turin, 20th Century
Large soup tureen with cover, oval, godrooned, with scrolled handles, on oval dish with acanthus leaves handles.
10.6 x 24.6 x 12.2 in.
Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 1.700
On the hunt
Oil on canvas.
21.65 x 12.60 in.
Signed lower right recto.
Starting price: € 1.000
Table cigarette case
London, 1887-1888
Rectangular, two roe deer hooves held by a stirrup.
7.3 x 7.9 x 2.4 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Vittorio Emanuele II
Dark patina bronze sculpture.
19.88 x 8.86 x 7.48 in.
Starting price: € 1.200 | Sold for : € 2.400
Miscellanous group of creamware dishes
Mainly France, second half of 19th Century
Rare collection of dishes from Creil, Montereau, Gien, Bordeax, Dortu and others, depicting neoclassical and Risorgimental subjects, the Italian campaign of 1860, the army of Italy and others, from the collection of Prince Alliata of Villafranca.
Minor damage, felures
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Starting price: € 750 | Sold for : € 1.000
Hunting dog
Brown patina bronze sculpture.
10.24 x 24.41 x 6.50 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 850
Pointing dog 20th Century
Oil on canvas.
20.87 x 33.86 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400
Charging knight
Brown patina bronze sculpture.
23.23 x 7.48 x 16.14 in.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 1.100
The Lauro market 1907
Oil on canvas.
48.82 x 34.25 in.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 1.000
Piedigrotta
Bronze with patina.
13.39 x 34.65 x 7.48 in.
Signed on the base.
Starting price: € 1.800 | Sold for : € 1.800
Gipsy woman
Oil on panel.
15.75 x 11.81 in.
Signed Irolli lower right recto.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 1.300
Altar boy
Oil on board.
12.20 x 5.71 in.
Inspired by a painting by Alfonso Hollaender.
Starting price: € 300
Portrait of a young woman in the garden
Oil on canvas.
11.81 x 9.06 in.
Signed upper right recto.
Starting price: € 1.500
Small coin display
18th-19th Century
Walnut and glass, with frame containing the list of coins and on the back the Peruzzi de' Medici coat-of-arms.
11.6 x 8.9 x 8.7 in.
Starting price: € 1.500
Group of three hardstone sphere
20th Century
Lot including a spherical geode, an agate sphere and a quartz sphere, with two silver supports and one in lacquered wood. In the lot also a resin sphere.
Geode diameter 5.5 in.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 1.000
Two scales
19th Century
Lot comprising a scale for gold and silver, within wooden case, with paper label with weight list inscribed 1823 and a coin scale within case.
Highest scale 1.4 x 9.8 x 5.9 in.
Starting price: € 700 | Sold for : € 750
Walking stick knob
St. Petersbourg, Circa 1870
In the form of an egg in agate, with silver, silver-gilt, pink guilloché enamel, small pearls and diamond slivers neck.
Damage to the enamel, some pearls and diamond slivers missing, glue traces.
3 x 2 x 1.4 in.
Starting price: € 2.000