AUCTION
Thursday 23 November 2023
11 a.m. (lots 1-163); 2.30 p.m. (lots 164-489)
Spazio Bolaffi, corso Verona 34/D, Turin
VIEWING
From Friday 17 November to Thursday 23 November, Sunday excluded
10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Spazio Bolaffi, Corso Verona 34/D, Turin
Pair of chairs
19th Century
Walnut, with lyre backrest, lined in brick red fabric.
38.2 x 20.1 x 18.5 in.
Starting price: € 100
Mirror frame
19th Century
Gilt wood and fabric frame, with rectangular mirror.
68.1 x 45.3 in.
Starting price: € 300
Sécretaire
Second half of 19th Century
Made for the Countess Margherita Bentivoglio, in walnut, with turned torchon uprights, inside the fallfront a drawer and three doors, the two lateral ones with secret opening, on the central one of architectural shape, the initials MB inlaid in light wood and on the
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Starting price: € 700 | Sold for : € 750
Chandelier
19th-20th Century
Metal, glass and crystals, with six lights on scrolled arms, with shaped teardrop crystals.
47.2 x 27.6 in.
Starting price: € 100
Large étagère
Gabriele Capello (il Moncalvo), 1843-1844
Made on commission by Count Ottavio Thaon di Revel for the villa of Cimena, mahogany, shaped, with shelves with openwork galleries, two central doors in the lower part, column uprights with palmettes on top.
69.3 x 66.9 x 17.3 in.
Gabriele Capello, known as Moncalvo, was
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Starting price: € 4.000 | Sold for : € 4.000
Snuff box
Paris, 1819-1838
Silver, silver filigree, silver gilt, niello and rhinestones, on the lid diorama with a heron in a landscape in white silver under glass.
134 g
0.8 x 3.1 x 2 in.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 1.000
Silver monumental prize
Christofle, Paris, 1868
Cast, embossed, chiseled and engraved silver award of the Agriculture regional competition of Châlons given by the French Ministry in 1868.
At the base a bull, a ram and a sheep, the column stem decorated with ears and vine shoots holding a large plate with bas-reliefs
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Starting price: € 4.000 | Sold for : € 26.000
Carpet
Isfahan, 1960's
On a white background, with phytomorphic spirals in shades of blue.
196.9 x 134.6 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 700
CARLO BOSSOLI 1815-1884
Coste della Crimea [1841]
Pencil and watercolor on paper, signed lower right recto.
5.51 x 8.86 in.
“View of the coasts of the Black Sea, near Alupka, closed by a wall of mountains, which gives the landscape a severe and fantastic appearance”,
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 1.100
CARLO BOSSOLI 1815-1884
Mediterranean Landscape
Tempera on paper, signed lower right recto.
7.87 x 18.11 in.
Pleasant landscape that Peyrot describes "with nuanced pink tones, classic of the Spanish area".
Starting price: € 3.000 | Sold for : € 3.000
CARLO BOSSOLI 1815-1884
Monti di Crimea
Tempera on paper, signed lower right recto.
15.75 x 21.65 in.
Peyrot describes the work as a "stupendous vision of a mountain, probably in Crimea, where the warm tones of the foreground, in which small animal figures blend together,
Starting price: € 5.000
CARLO BOSSOLI 1815-1884
Costa della Crimea e Costa della Scozia
Tempera on paper, one of the two bears the title "Costa della Scozia" in pencil.
3.15 x 5.12 in.
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Bibliografia/Literature
Ada Peyrot "Carlo Bossoli Luoghi, personaggi e costumi", Torino 1974, il primo n.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 1.100
CARLO BOSSOLI 1815-1884
Paesaggio invernale in Russia
Tempera on paper, signed lower right recto.
8.66 x 11.61 in.
Peyrot writes on this work that "the livid whiteness of the snow spreads through the atmosphere and is not subsided by the blue fading into that diaphanous
Starting price: € 2.000 | Sold for : € 2.000
CARLO BOSSOLI 1815-1884
Paesaggio fluviale con figure 1881
Oil on glass, signed recto in the center along the lower margin.
4.53 x 8.27 in.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 1.000
CARLO BOSSOLI 1815-1884
Rustico in Canton Ticino
Tempera on paper, signed lower left recto.
7.87 x 11.02 in.
In the monograph on Bossoli, Peyrot describes this Ticino farmhouse belonging to one of the "villages that have remained intact with their characteristic stone
Starting price: € 2.000 | Sold for : € 2.000
Snuff box
Lukutin Factory, Moscow, 19th Century
Black lacquered papier-mâché with portrait on the lid. Lot including also a similar snuffbox, with a slide painted on the cover.
1.3 x 3.7 x 1.9 in.
Provenienza/Provenance
A La Vieille Russie, New York.
Collezione privata,
Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 375
Two cigarette cases
Russia, 19th-20th Century
Gilded and nielloed silver cigarette case, a horse-drawn sleigh on the cover, together with another silver cigarette case, gilded inside, the engraving of a sleigh with a gallant scene on the cover, St. Petersburg, late 19th
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 650
Two cigarette cases
Moscow, 1875-1880
Silver and niello with architectures on the cover, gilt inside.
Damage and wear to the gilding.
182 g
The largest 0.8 x 3.5 x 2.2 in.
Starting price: € 400
Group of three snuff boxes
Moscow, 1827-1856
Nielloed and gilder silver with views and monuments.
274 g
The largest 0.5 x 3.3 x 2.2 in.
Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 850
Icon
Southern Russia, 19th-20th Century
Tempera on panel, depicting the Madonna of Kazan, with silver, silver plated and enamels riza.
12.2 x 10.4 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 16.000
Cigarette case
Vasilii Egorovich Rukavishnicov, Moscow, 1896-1908
Silver with gold, enamel, metal and semi-precious stone applications, with signatures, figures, animals and plaques, a small photograph holder on the front upper corner. Assay mark of Ivan Sergejevitc
Starting price: € 2.000 | Sold for : € 2.000
Snuff box
Probably Estonia, 20th Century
Silver, with rays shaped flutes, with gilt silver clip, an engraved monogram inside of the cover.
178 g
0.4 x 3.9 x 3 in.
Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 250
Silver gilt tray
Saint Petersbourg, assayer Dmitriì Ilbich Tverskoì, 1850
Oval tray, with shaped rim with laurel wreath chiseled and engraved, the border with chiens courant decoration interrupted by two clasps with chiseled and engraved Imperial eagle.
2.780 g
25.6 x 13 in.
Starting price: € 2.000 | Sold for : € 2.400
STANISLAO GRIMALDI DEL POGGETTO 1825-1903
Napoleonic cuirassiers charging 1890
Oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right recto.
27.56 x 22.05 in.
Beautiful and rare canvas by the esteemed Turinese artist, native of Chambéry, who was designer and sculptor to the House of Savoy during the reigns of Vittorio Emanuele II and Umberto I.
Starting price: € 3.000 | Sold for : € 3.000
Pair of candlesticks
19th-20th Century
Made with Queen Victoria Guards saber hilts. Given in 1917 to the frigate captain, then minister, Balfour, with dedication engraved on the base.
9.1 x 5.1 x 3.7 in.
Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 800