AUCTION
Wednesday 31 May 2023
9.30 a.m. | lots 1-279
2.30 p.m. | lots 280-653
Spazio Bolaffi, corso Verona 34/D, Turin
VIEWING
From Thursday 25 to Saturday 27 May from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. From Monday 29 to Wednesday 31 May from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Spazio Bolaffi, corso Verona 34/D, Torino
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Two embroidered panels
18th-19th Century
Two petit point panels, one depicting a pheasant among roses and ferns within a wooden frame and one depicting the Madonna and Child within a carved and gilded wooden frame.
Damage and wear.
The largest 11.8 x 12.4 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 100
Bed
Late 18th Century
Single bed in cream and light blue painted wood and pastille, with trophies centered by masks, with rosettes and flutes, acorn-shaped knobs.
Some lacks, partially repainted.
49.2 x 77.2 x 40 in.
Starting price: € 700 | Sold for : € 750
Sofa with six armchairs and six chairs
Late 18th Century
Carved, painted and gilded wood, with blue ground silk lining.
Sofa 37 x 70.5 x 23.2 in.
Starting price: € 2.000 | Sold for : € 3.200
SCUOLA ITALIANA DEL XIX SECOLO
The return of the prodigal son
Oil on canvas mounted on masonite.
20.55 x 14.96 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 1.700
Wall table
Late 18th Century
Carved, painted and gilded wood, with tapered and fluted legs and gray marble top.
34.8 x 39.8 x 20.3 in.
Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 1.100
Game table
19th Century
Walnut, with book opening and internal round leather top, legs with applied bronze feet.
Wear and minor damage.
29.3 x 32.3 x 16.1 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 125
Pair of chairs
19th Century
Walnut, with fluted and tapered column legs, canneté seat and back.
Damage and restoration.
36.6 x 19.5 x 16.9 in.
Starting price: € 100
Game table
18th-19th Century
Rectangular, with openable top with green leather inside, inlaid with geometrical decoration, a frieze on the front inlaid with landscapes, fluted legs.
Damage, losses and replacements.
30.3 x 32 x 16.5 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400
Group of six chairs
19th Century
Walnut, with turned front legs and back inlaid with ribbons and plant motifs. Upholstered in different fabrics.
Damage and wear.
35 x 18.5 x 18.1 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 250
ABRAHAM-LOUIS-RODOLPHE DUCROS 1748-1810
Lucano bridge [1806]
Watercolours on canvas-backed paper.
25.59 x 40.16 in.
Bibliografia/Literature
P. Chessex, Ducros. Paesaggi d'Italia all'epoca di Goethe, Roma, 1987, n. 45, pp. 94-95.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 1.900
Carpet
Persia, 20th Century
Carpet from the Hamadan Zanjan area, with cotton weft and wool pile, with red and blue ground.
Some wear.
77.2 x 48.4 in.
Starting price: € 300
Carpet
Persia, 20th Century
Floral and zoomorphic decorations within light ground reserves, on red background.
82.7 x 51.2 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 200
Carpet
Persia, 20th Century
Qum carpet in shades of pink and blue on light ground.
61 x 40.6 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 225
GAETANO FORTE 1790-1871
Pair of still lives with venison
Oil on canvas, signed lower right.
16.54 x 20.87 in.
Rare pair of still lifes by one of the leading artists of the early 19th century Neapolitan school whose pictorial language is characterized by a search for precision of shapes and details, which gives the figures an
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Starting price: € 2.500
Chest-of-drawers
19th Century
Cherry wood, with three drawers, black marble top and side columns with gilt-bronze applications.
33.5 x 37.4 x 19.1 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 1.300
SCUOLA ITALIANA DEL XIX SECOLO
Night procession
Watercolor on paper.
10.83 x 7.87 in.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 1.000
SCUOLA ITALIANA DEL XIX SECOLO
L'acquaiola
Oil on canvas.
20.47 x 15.35 in.
Signed "La Volpe" on lower left recto.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 500
DA ANGELO INGANNI
Secret reunion in Borromei Palace 1848
Oil on board.
19.68 x 14.37 in.
On the verso a paper label with title and date of the artwork, then the following handwriting: "Dipinto su tavola in noce. Una riunione segreta nel Palazzo Borromei contro il
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 850
SCUOLA INGLESE
Portrait of George Henry Law Circa 1790
Portrait in gold and blue enamel oval frame, on verso a small glass-case containing hair with the initials AL and indications of the title and birth of Law, Bishop of Bath and Wells.
2.36 x 1.57 in.
Starting price: € 500
GIACOMO ANDREOLI 1784-1860
Portrait of a gentleman
Oval miniature signed on the right side, within a gilt bronze frame.
1.89 x 1.38 in.
Starting price: € 200
SCUOLA INGLESE DEL XIX SECOLO
Portrait of a gentleman
Oval miniature within silver plated frame with blue enamel on verso.
2.95 x 2.36 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 475
Gentleman's portrait
19th Century
Oval miniature on paper within rectangular ebonized wood frame.
A vertical break.
3.5 x 2.8 in.
Starting price: € 250
Two miniatures
19th Century
Two oval lady portraits on paper, within a rectangular wooden frame.
The largest signed Dupré lower right, the smallest Stieler.
The largest 3.5 x 2.8 in.
Starting price: € 100
Micromosaic plaque
Giacomo Raffaelli, Rome, 1791
Circular copper plaque with micromosaic depicting two doves sipping within small geometrical contour in white, blue and red.
Signed Giacomo Raffaelli fecit and dated 1791 at verso.
Diameter 2 in.
Giacomo Raffaelli (Rome, 1753-1836), descendant from a lineage of kilnsmen,
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Starting price: € 3.000 | Sold for : € 7.000
Jumelles
Flammarion, Maison Fischer, Paris, 19th-20th Century
Gilded and silvered metal and polychrome enamels.
Small defects, wear and oxidation.
3.1 x 4.1 x 1.6 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 125
Silver-plated tea and coffee service
20th Century
Including tea-pot, coffee-pot, milk jug and sugar bowl, with octagonal body, a geometrical frieze on opacified ground, with ebonized wood handles.
Bearing fantasy marks.
Coffee pot 8.9 x 7.7 x 7.9 in.
Starting price: € 400
SCUOLA ITALIANA DEL XIX SECOLO
A view of Piazza del Popolo in Rome
Gouache on paper.
15.75 x 42.13 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 750
Wardrobe
19th Century
Walnut, with two doors, with internal shelves, drawer and stick.
87.8 x 56.3 x 20.9 in.
Starting price: € 300
GIOVANNI ALBERTONI 1806-1887
Gentleman portrait mid-19th Century
Large oval bas-relief in white marble, signed under the shoulder.
0.98 x 20.08 x 18.31 in.
Giovanni Albertoni, from Varallo Sesia, was a sculptor, pupil of Bertel Thorvaldsen in Rome. Among others, he is the author of the monuments to Gioberti and Lagrange in Turin and
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Starting price: € 1.200 | Sold for : € 1.200
Pair of armchairs
19th Century
Walnut, with enveloping rectangular backrest, armrests with column uprights, yellow silk-upholstered.
35 x 23 x 21.3 in.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 175
SCUOLA SUDAMERICANA DEL XIX SECOLO
Hunter angel
Oil on board.
10.04 x 8.07 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 100
GIULIA MERLI
The death of St. Francesco Saverio 1825
Oil on canvas, signed and dated on the verso.
9.06 x 12.20 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 600
SCUOLA FRANCESE DEL XIX SECOLO
Napoleonica
Group of lithographs depicting scenes from the life and battles of the Emperor, different sizes, in modern frames.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Chest-of-drawers
First half of 19th Century
Walnut with gilt bronze applications, with three drawers and one protruding on the frieze, with side columns on quadrangular feet.
Wear and lacks.
65.7 x 47.6 x 23.2 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 200
SCUOLA ITALIANA DEL XX SECOLO
Landscape
Oil on board within an elaborate gilt bronze frame.
2.17 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 100
Portico table clock
Faby Frères, 19th Century
Ebonized wood case with light wood inlays, white enamel dial with roman numerals.
Mechanism signed Faby Frères.
16.9 x 8.7 x 5.1 in.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 150
Silver sugar bowl
Netherlands, late 19th Century
Embossed, chiselled and engraved with scrolled vegetal motifs, with openwork base.
394 g
6.1 x 4.9 in.
Starting price: € 300
Silver sugar spreader
Hawksworth, Eyre & Co Ltd, London, 1901-1902
Fluted, with ribbon falls and rosette clasps.
206 g
7.7 x 2.4 x 2.4 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 250
Three silver baskets
William Gibson & John Langman, London, 1898-1899
Oval, shaped, open-worked, with embossed and chiselled laurel wreaths, one larger and two smaller.
746 g
The largest 5.5 x 9.6 x 6.5 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 375
Pair of sugar spreader
London, 1900-1901
Openwork, with blue glass liners, with bayonet lock.
242 g
5.9 x 2.4 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 300
Brass oil lamp
19th Century
Circular base, with two lights, with chain with scissors and candle snuffer.
Height 23.6 in.
Starting price: € 200
Tray
20th Century
Oval, in black and gold lacquered tole.
1.2 x 30.1 x 23.6 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 125
FIRMATO P. MELANI
Young Scottish huntress Early 19th Century
Oil on canvas.
Signed on lower right recto.
49.41 x 35.83 in.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 1.900
Carpet
Persia, 20th Century
White and blue decoration on red ground.
Spread wear.
74.8 x 55.1 in.
Starting price: € 100
Silver cruet
Milan, circa 1840
Shaped base with beaded edge and baluster central handle, with two glass bottles.
444 g
12.2 x 9.3 x 5.3 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400
Group of three silver dishes
Sheffield, 1842-1843
Circular, with polylobed edge, chiseled and engraved with vegetal motifs.
2.446 g
1 x 14.6 in.
Starting price: € 700 | Sold for : € 1.000
Silver cruet
London, 1842-1843
Geometric shaped openwork base, with eight glass and silver bottles, one with glass and silver gilt mixing spoon.
Some damage to the caps, a crack at one bottle's neck.
638 g weighable silver.
9.8 x 8.5 x 6.1 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 325
Silver sauce boat
Odiot, Paris, after 1838
Shaped oval sauce boat with double curl handles, fixed on oval shaped base with leafy feet, gadrooned edges. An engraved coat-of-arms under comital crown on the base.
1.308 g
4.9 x 10.2 x 7.1 in.
Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 1.000
Inkstand
Ginori, circa 1840
Rectangular, shaped, in white, blue and gold porcelain with the views of Palazzo Vecchio, Palazzo Pitti, the Duomo and Ponte della SS. Trinità on the four sides, in the center two ink bottles, a holder and a long pen well with the inscription "I Cini a H. Donkin". On
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Starting price: € 2.000
Silver centerpiece
London, 1878-1879
Oval, with embossed and chiseled rim with garland of fruit on opaque background, grape branches falling on the plate, a plaque applied in the center with a tavern scene, openwork ear handles with cherubs.
Wear and dents.
560 g
2.4 x 14
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 250