Furniture, paintings and works of art
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
Lot 101
SCUOLA ITALIANA DEL XVIII SECOLO
Storm
Oil on canvas.
64.57 x 84.25 in.
Starting price: € 4.000 | Sold for : € 6.500
Lot 102
Group of three small mirror frames
18th century
Gilt-wood, shaped, with rocailles and falls of flowers on the sides.
28.3 x 18.5 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 700
Lot 103
Mirror frame
18th century
Elaborate carved gilt-wood frame with oak's leaves. Small central oval mirror.
18.5 x 15.7 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 900
Lot 104
Chandelier
Murano, 20th Century
Glass and metal, with leaves and flowers on two levels, with six lights.
Damage and losses.
52 x 37 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 105
Large vase
19th-20th Century
Green painted terracotta with engraved decoration, on wrought iron tripod pedestal.
35.4 x 15.7 x 15.7 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 150
Lot 106
GIUSEPPE MARCHESI DETTO IL SANSONE 1699-1771
San Carlo and San Luigi Gonzaga
Oil on canvas.
40.75 x 23.43 in.
Starting price: € 5.000 | Sold for : € 5.000
Lot 107
SCUOLA VENETA DEL XVIII SECOLO
Saint Peter Martyr
Oil on canvas.
12.20 x 20.08 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 500
Lot 108
JOHANNES JANSSON 1588-1664
Ischia
Etching with contemporary coloring.
15.75 x 19.68 in.
Starting price: € 400
Lot 109
DONATO BERTELLI 1558-1623
Nicsia circa 1575
Framed etching with later phytomorphic borders.
7.87 x 5.91 in.
Starting price: € 150
Lot 110
SCUOLA ITALIANA DEL XVIII SECOLO
Portrait of a gentleman
Oil on canvas.
58.66 x 44.09 in.
Starting price: € 700 | Sold for : € 700
Lot 111
Two pairs of candlesticks
17th-18th Century
Bronze, the tallest pair baluster-shaped, with triangular base and feral feet, the smaller pair baluster-shaped with circular base.
19.9 x 5.1 x 5.1 in. the tallest pair.
Starting price: € 300
Lot 112
SCUOLA ITALIANA DEL XX SECOLO
Young girl crouching
Bronze with dark patina, stamp of the Fonderia Artistica Battaglia.
11.81 x 11.81 x 9.84 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 1.100
Lot 113
Chest
18th Century
Rectangular, front inlaid with reserves and leaf decoration, wrought iron side handles and hardware.
26.8 x 67.1 x 22.2 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 1.200
Lot 114
Vase
Japan, Meiji period
Metal and cloisonné enamel, with dragon decoration with stylized clouds and flowers, with shaped wrought iron support, with spherical pendants.
15 x 9.8 x 9.8 in.
Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 250
Lot 115
SCUOLA VENETA DEL XVIII SECOLO
Landscape with river and wayfarers
Watercolor on paper applied to canvas, within a wooden frame with original glass.
16.93 x 22.44 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400
Lot 116
Pair of side table
18th-19th Century
Inlaid with geometric decoration, a drawer and a door on the front.
Replacements and restorations.
32.5 x 23.2 x 16.1 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 1.200
Lot 117
Bedside table
18th-19th Century
Inlaid with floral decoration, with opening top and false bottom, one door on the front.
30.7 x 22.8 x 15 in.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 325
Lot 118
Sofa
19th Century
Walnut, with openwork backrest with stylized fagots and canneté seat.
34.3 x 58.3 x 19.3 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 119
Pair of mirror frames
18th century
Carved gilt-wood shaped frames with cartouche and crown on top and vexilla on the sides.
Small damage and wear.
16.1 x 13 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 400
Lot 120
Cartel d'applique
19th century
Gilt bronze shaped case, a putto with cartouche, scrolls and falls of flowers on the top. White enamel dial with double Arabic and Roman numerals.
21.1 x 13.6 in.
Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 800
Lot 121
SCUOLA EUROPEA DEL XIX SECOLO
La Basilica di Massenzio con il Colosseo in fondo
Ink and watercolor on paper, monogrammed R. R. fecit and dated 1814 lower right.
Browning and traces of humidity.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400
Lot 122
Pair of stools
19th-20th Century
Quadrangular, carved, painted and gilt wood, with fluted column legs, covered in yellow silk damask, in 18th-Century style.
18.1 x 20.1 x 16.1 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 375
Lot 123
SCUOLA ITALIANA DEL XVIII SECOLO
Pair of fantastic views with figures dressed in oriental style
Oil on canvas.
71.46 x 23.62 in.
(2)
Starting price: € 2.000 | Sold for : € 2.000
Lot 124
Silver sugar bowl
George Smith IV, London, 1812-1813
Circular, fluted, with flowers and leaves scrolls handles, a flower on top of the cover.
1086 g
7.1 x 8.3 x 6.3 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 350
Lot 125
Sécretaire
Lombardy, early 19th Century
Inlaid, with geometric decoration and edges with acanthus leaves, a flower trophy in the center of the upper fallfront door, inside drawers and a sliding secret, the lower part with two doors with internal shelves.
Feet cut, restorations.
57.3 x 36.6 x 16.7 in.
Starting price: € 2.000
Lot 126
SCUOLA ITALIANA DEL XIX SECOLO
Women in a costume
Group of four of watercolors on paper, one of which depicting a woman from the Rione Monti in Rome.
Different measures.
(4)
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 100
Lot 128
Pair of wall sconces
18th century
Carved gilt-wood frame with rocailles with original mirrors.
Small damage and losses.
35.4 x 19.3 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 900
Lot 129
SCUOLA ITALIANA DEL XIX SECOLO
Castel Sant'Angelo seen from the Tiber
Watercolor on cardboard, signed lower right recto.
12.60 x 6.50 in.
Starting price: € 150
Lot 130
Drawing room furniture
19th-20th Century
Including a walnut sofa and nine walnut chairs, the sofa with seat covered in green velvet, the chairs with canneté seat, openwork backrests with three ovals.
Eight chairs from a later period, wear and minor damage.
Sofa 33.5 x
Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 600
Lot 131
Mirror frame
18th-19th Century
Rectangular frame in painted and gilt wood with engraved decorations, on leaf feet, on the sides two laurel wreaths, the frieze centered by a shell, with two flower vases on the sides.
65 x 39.8 in.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 1.300
Lot 132
Small silver sugar bowl
Naples, 1832-1835, assayer Paolo De Blasio
Circular, smooth, with geometrical decoration edges. A dent on the cover.
Lot includes a small silver oil lamp, Italy, 20th Century.
566 g total weight
Sugar bowl 4.9 x 3.7 x 3 in.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 250
Lot 133
Silver sugar bowl
Turin, after 1824
Circular, smooth, domed, with geometrically decorated edges, scrolled handles, a pair of doves on top of the cover.
950 ‰ silver
Dents, closure defects.
450 g
5.7 x 7.9 x 5.7 in.
Starting price: € 400
Lot 134
Pair of jars
China, 20th Century
Hexagonal, in white and blue porcelain with decoration of dragons in the clouds.
10.2 x 5.3 x 5.3 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 1.500
Lot 135
Chest-of-drawers
Lombardy, late 18th Century and later
Inlaid with floral and geometric decorations, with three drawers.
Restorations and replacements.
36.2 x 51.2 x 22.4 in.
Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 1.600
Lot 136
Silver box
Italy, 20th Century
Quadrangular, shaped, with embossed, chiseled and engraved floral decoration, gilded inside, with hinged lid with a bunch of flowers on top.
1066 g
5.1 x 9.1 x 9.4 in.
Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 425
Lot 137
Group of five dishes
19th Century
Polychrome and gilded porcelain, with landscapes and birds in the center of the cavetto.
Small losses to the gilding, wear.
Diameter 8.7 in.
Starting price: € 400
Lot 138
Large silver wine cooler
Italy, 20th Century
Lobed and shaped, with embossed decoration of shoots and bunches of grapes, ferine handles with laurel wreath rings, gilded inside.
Engraved under the base "3 February 1932-3 February 1957".
1602 g
9.1 x 9.6 x 8.3 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 950
Lot 139
Drawings of fortresses
18th Century
Lot including three drawings and a print, depicting Lombard fortresses and one depicting the surroundings of Basel.
Different measures.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 140
FAUSTINO JOLI 1814-1876
Passage of an Austrian requisition – War of the year 1859 – Montechiari Brigade
Oil on canvas, signed in the middle of the lower margin, titled lower right recto.
33.86 x 48.82 in.
Starting price: € 3.000 | Sold for : € 3.400
Lot 141
Baby grand piano
France, 19th Century
Ebonized wood, brass and different metals.
Small losses and defects, to be serviced.
32.3 x 66.9 x 53.1 in.
Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 800
Lot 142
Large silver vase
Luigi Gennazzi, Milan, 20th Century
Globular, hammered, with four leaf ring handle.
2396 g
13 x 11.4 x 11.4 in.
Starting price: € 700 | Sold for : € 2.400
Lot 143
ANTONIO CASSI RAMELLI 1905-1980
Country landscape
Oil on plywood, autograph dedication by the artist's sons on the verso.
7.87 x 19.49 in.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 150
Lot 144
GIUSEPPE CANELLA 1788-1847
Portrait of an elderly lady with glasses
Watercolor on paper, signed lower right.
15.75 x 11.02 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 150
Lot 145
Group of prints
18th Century
Six prints with views of Tivoli and the Roman countryside, within elegant wooden frames.
17.3 x 23.2 in.
Starting price: € 300
Lot 146
Group of armchairs
20th Century
Thirteen oakwood armchairs, shaped, with enveloping backrest with turned sticks, turned legs joined by crosspieces.
37 x 24.6 x 17.9 in.
Starting price: € 500
Lot 147
Table and eight chairs
20th Century
Tripod table with circular top, eight walnut chairs with shaped backs and seats covered in red leather, fluted baluster front legs.
Wear.
Table 30.7 x 49.2 x 49.2 in.
Chairs 34.6 x 17.7 x 16.9 in.
Starting price: € 300
Lot 148
ANTONIO CANOVA 1757-1822
George Washington
Etching engraved by Luigi Rados.
22.83 x 16.14 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 600
Lot 149
Sofa
19th-20th Century
Walnut, with enveloping backrest, covered in yellow velvet.
33.9 x 74 x 22 in.
Starting price: € 400
Lot 150
ARTURO FERRARI 1861-1932
Views of Castiglione Olona
Oil on canvas.
17.72 x 25.59 in.
Interesting collection of views of the city's most important buildings with relative legend at the bottom right.
Starting price: € 1.500