AUCTION
Thursday 27 October 2022
10.30 a.m. | lots 1-177
2.00 p.m. | lots 178-556
Spazio Bolaffi, corso Verona 34/D, Turin
THE AUCTION WILL START AGAIN AT 2.00 P.M.
VIEWING
From Friday 21 October to Thursday 27 October (Sunday excluded), 10.00 a.m. - 6.00 p.m.
Spazio Bolaffi, corso Verona 34/D, Torino
Enquiries: +39 011 0199101 | info@astebolaffi.it
Portrait of Maria Antonia of Bourbon-Spain
Oil on canvas.
29.92 x 25.59 in.
Starting price: € 3.000 | Sold for : € 3.600
Portrait of Victor Amadeus III of Savoy
Oil on canvas.
29.92 x 25.59 in.
Starting price: € 3.000 | Sold for : € 4.600
Sofa
18th Century
Walnut flash sofa, shaped, with spiral armrests, scrolled legs and interlocking backrest, upholstered in sage green fabric.
41.3 x 80.3 x 29.1 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 475
Portrait of Maria Carolina
Oil on canvas.
14.96 x 11.42 in.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 1.100
Miniature box
French school, 18th Century
Round box with gentleman miniature on cover.
0.8 x 3.1 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 375
Carpet
Persia, 20th Century
With stylized floral decorations in the shades of green, red and blue.
Wear.
85.8 x 72.4 in.
Starting price: € 200
Chandelier
18th-19th Century
Gilt wood stem with mirror knot, flowers and leaves branch shaped arms in gilt tole, with six arms and three smaller ones.
Missing a small arm.
22 x 32.7 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 450
Portrait of two children with a basket with flowers and fruit
Oil on canvas.
40.94 x 28.15 in.
Starting price: € 1.500
Chandelier
19th-20th Century
Bronze, gilded metal, teardrop crystals and glass, with fifteen lights organized in two levels.
45.3 x 34.3 x 34.3 in.
Starting price: € 300
Ligurian landscape
Pen, brown ink and bistre on paper.
10.24 x 16.93 in.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 275
Silver ewer
Porto, 1805
With fluted helmet and scroll handle.
1142 g
12.6 x 8.5 x 4.7 in.
Provenienza/Provenance
Bruno Collovati, Saluzzo.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 1.400
Large silver basin
Probably Toulouse, late 18th Century
Circular, with gadrooned rim.
1352 g
3 x 14.8 in.
Provenienza/Provenance
Bruno Collovati, Saluzzo.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 1.200
Rouleau bureau cabinet
Piemonte, late 18th Century
Entirely veneered with cubic marqueterie, with three-dimensional effect, with green-painted wood geometric ribbon borders, sliding marqueterie top and rouleau door, with four small marqueterie veneered drawers inside.
90.
Starting price: € 9.000
Silver tazza
Probably Netherlands, early 18th Century
Quadrangular with openwork gallery. In the lot also a sugar bowl, probably 20th Century, in silver and blue glass, cylindrical, perforated, bearing 18th Century Dutch marks on the back and 19th Century French marks on
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 450
Two silver ampoules
Paris, 1798-1809
Pyriform, smooth, with scroll handle. In the lot also two other ampoules with tray in silver gilt, Paris, second half of the 19th Century.
920 g
The two in silver 5.9 x 3.1 x 2.6 in.
Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 425
Group of three coffee pots
Turin, late 19th Century
Similar to each other, pear-shaped, with turned flutes, topped by a rose, with wooden handle.
2142 g including wooden handles
8.9 x 8.9 x 3.9 in.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 1.300
Silver égoiste coffee pot
Carlo Balbino, Turin, early 19th Century
Pyriform, with turned flutes, with spiral feet and ebonized wood handle.
304 g
5.1 x 6.3 x 2.8 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 650
Group of twelve silver dishes
Probably William Summer, London, 1814-15
Shaped, with a gadrooned rim, a coat of arms engraved on the brim.
7316 g
Diameter 9.6 in.
Provenienza/Provenance
Fina, Torino.
Starting price: € 2.200 | Sold for : € 5.000
Small sideboard
19th Century
Inlaid wood with geometric and floral motifs, two doors and two upper drawers on the front, with tapered legs, in Neoclassical style. In the lot also a chair in spiral-turned and ebonized wood.
31.7 x 36 x 15.2 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 350
Pair of still lives with venison
Oil on canvas, signed lower right.
16.54 x 20.87 in.
Starting price: € 3.000
Important pair of soup tureens
Jean Baptiste Claude Odiot, Paris, 1819-1838
Two circular silver soup tureens with fluted handles, similar but different heights, with interchangeable lid, circular, domed, with fluted ring handle laying on bed of leaves. On the body of the tureens and on the lid an engraved coat of arms, contemporary, worn in
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Starting price: € 2.000 | Sold for : € 2.200
Small gilt-bronze cup
19th Century
Two-handled gilt and silvered bronze cup, a bellflowers decoration on the body.
4.3 x 7.3 x 5.7 in.
Starting price: € 100
Large soup tureen
Naples, circa 1840
Oval, embossed and chiseled, with applied openwork base and feral feet, partially gadrooned body, a laurel-wreathed band on the shoulder, applied ram's head handles, domed gadrooned cover with laurel wreath rim, topped by a putto with a swan.
3.950 g
13.8 x 18.1 x 9.4
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Starting price: € 2.000 | Sold for : € 2.200
Ewer
Probably Germany, 19th Century
White and blue majolica with floral decoration, helm shaped, with torchon handle.
9.8 x 5.1 x 4.3 in.
Starting price: € 100
Vase with dish
Meissen, Marcolini period, 18th-19th Century
Pyriform vase with shaped circular plate in polychrome and gilded porcelain, decorated with roses within twisted reserves on a purple background.
A passing crack to the plate, mark in blue under glaze under the base.
Plate diameter 9.4 in.
Vase 9.1 x 4.7 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 1.000
Guéridon
19th-20th Century
Oval, tripod, the top inlaid in different woods with floral motifs.
Damage to the top veneer.
28 x 24 x 16.1 in.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 150
Funeral procession
Naples, 19th Century
Large richly embroidered silk drape depicting a funeral procession, in the background the bay of Naples and Vesuvius.
32.3 x 40.9 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 600
Last Supper
19th Century
Rectangular ivory silk with red velvet border panel, embroidered with silver, gold and polychrome threads, with painted faces and hands.
21.7 x 25.2 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 350
Pentecost drape
19th Century
Richly embroidered silk with gold and silver threads and wooden beads.
Widespread damage, lacks and breakages.
46.1 x 61.4 in.
Starting price: € 500
Pair of silver oil cruets
Turin, after 1824
Rectangular, one with two openwork ampoule holders with cherubs, the other with two ampoule holders and two salt cellars, central ring handle.
Defects and signs of aging, later glass ampoules.
948 g
12 x 8.1 x 4.1 in.
Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 650
Silver oil cruet
Koch, Brema, early 19th Century
Rectangular, two ampoule holders and two openwork salt cellars with ground glass ampoules.
550 g
11.4 x 8.7 x 3.5 in.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 375
Pair of single bed backs
19th Century
Headboard and footboard in walnut carved with panels and reserves, with spiral legs.
46.7 x 41.9 x 1.6 in.
Starting price: € 100
Chest-of-drawers
First half of the 19th Century
Empire chest-of-drawers, with three drawers and one on the frieze, lateral columns, gilt-bronze applications, feral feet and grey marble top.
Wear, damage, spread restoration to the marble top.
37.8 x 50.8 x 23.2 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 475
Pair of silver candelabra
Vienna, circa 1870
Large candelabra with fluted domed base, three laurel wreaths applied to the front and back of the base, fluted baluster stem with acanthus leaves base, seven lights on removable phytomorphic arms with bayonet fitting.
4.740 g
20.1 x 11.8 in.
Starting price: € 3.000 | Sold for : € 3.000
Center table
19th Century
Tripod, circular, the top inlaid with geometric motifs.
Damage to the top.
29.5 x 27.6 in.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 150
Country parish church
China and watercolour on paper.
Damage and losses.
14.96 x 18.50 in.
Starting price: € 50 | Sold for : € 50
Portrait of Giuseppe Zanotti and his son Luigi
Oil on canvas for the father, within a contemporary frame in carved and gilded wood, and a smaller tempera on paper for the son.
21.65 x 17.13 in.
Starting price: € 500
Portrait of a little girl playing with a Chinese doll
Oil on canvas.
Color losses.
26.18 x 20.08 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Drum
19th Century
Painted metal and wood, parchment and rope.
14.8 x 15.4 x 15.4 in.
Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 300
Carpet
Ardebil, 20th Century
With geometric and floral stylized decorations on a blue background.
Wear.
105.9 x 70.9 in.
Starting price: € 300
Pair of girandoles
19th-20th Century
Gilt bronze, crystals and glass, with five lights, crystal column base and gilt bronze arms, glass bobèches with applied prism crystals.
Starting price: € 700 | Sold for : € 700
Pair of candelabra
19th-20th Century
Gilt bronze, with four lights, a spire on top, in neo-Gothic style.
20.9 x 8.7 in.
Starting price: € 300
Floor oil lamp
20th Century
Brass, on a quadrangular shaped base with feral feet, four lumens, four chains with tools and central ring-shaped handle.
61.4 x 13 x 13 in.
Starting price: € 100
Table
20th Century
Gray painted wood, with fluted and tapered column legs joined by crosspieces, two drawers on the front and top with gray cloth applied under a glass sheet.
34.1 x 50.4 x 23.6 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 225
Romantic ride in the park
Oil on cardboard.
9.25 x 6.10 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 100
Silver brandy pan
Edward Barnard & John Barnard, London, 1836-37
Cylindrical, with wooden handle and knob. In the lot also a small ewer in silver gilt inside, three French silver tastevins and a pierced ladle, Piedmont early 19th Century.
874 g including wooden handles
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 450
Silver oil cruet
Sheffield, 1843-44
Silver and wood, oval, with openwork gallery and six ground glass ampoules with silver caps.
Non-weighable silver.
10.8 x 7.1 x 5.5 in.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 200
Pair of silver salt cellars
London, 1838
Circulars, tripods, in embossed silver. In the lot also a miscellany of table objects in silver and silver-plated metal, including three silver sugar spreaders.
840 g
Different measures.
Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 375
Castle Campbell
Watercolor on paper. Large and picturesque view of the ruins of this historic castle in Scotland, the former seat of the Dukes of Argyll, chiefs of the Campbell Clan.
20.47 x 29.92 in.
Starting price: € 400
Pair of small silver salvers
Glasgow, 1826-27
Circular, tripods, with spiral feet and gadrooned edges.
674 g
1 x 8.1 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 350