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
Silver mug
John King, London, 1776-1777
Pear-shaped, smooth, with double leaf scroll handle, the letter A engraved on the front, the letters W.R. crowned engraved on one side.
Marked under the base.
376 g
4.8 x 5.5 x 3.5 in.
Provenienza/Provenance
Carlo Teardo, Milano.
Col
Starting price: € 400
Silver tankard
Thomas Whipham, London, 1750-1751
Cylindrical, smooth, with domed cover and scrolled handle, a coat-of-arms engraved on the front.
776 g
7.5 x 7.1 x 5.1 in.
Starting price: € 1.000
Silver tankard
Walter Brind, London, 1777
Smooth, with threaded band, domed cover and large scrolled handle.
898 g
7.9 x 7.1 x 4.3 in.
Starting price: € 800
Silver mug
George Smith & Thomas Hayter, London, 1797
Pyriform, smooth, with double scroll leaf handlem, a monogram engraved on the front.
292 g
4.8 x 5.1 x 3.3 in.
Starting price: € 300
Mirror frame
18th-19th Century
Rectangular frame in carved, painted and gilt wood, with lateral flower falls, frieze with large central shell.
48.4 x 29.9 x 3.1 in.
Starting price: € 1.200
Stool
19th-20th Century
Rectangular, in carved wood, with column legs, covered in petit point embroidered fabric.
20.9 x 21.3 x 16.1 in.
Starting price: € 200
Wardrobe
18th-19th Century
Wood painted with an ocher background, with bouquets of flowers on the doors, shelves and stick inside, on the left side a door compartment with shelves.
82.3 x 55.5 x 20.9 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 250
IGNAZIO RAVELLO 1756-1836
Ideal city
Wooden inlay in different essences.
7.09 x 10.04 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 2.000
Group of six appliques
Early 19th Century
Carved gilt-wood and wrought iron with falls of intertwined leaves and rosettes, two lights on scrolled arms.
30.5 x 10 in.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 2.200
Mirror frame
18th-19th Century
Rectangular mirror, with gilt-wood shaped frame, with lateral laurel falls, oval mirror frieze on top.
52.8 x 23.6 in.
Starting price: € 700
Two bedside tables
19th Century
Different from each other, one inlaid with floral motifs, with upper drawer and lower door with trompe-l'oeil drawers, marble top, the other with geometric decoration, with upper drawer and lower doors, marble top with openwork brass gallery.
Wear and some damage.
The
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Starting price: € 300
Chair
18th-19th Century
Carved and painted gilt-wood, with fluted column legs, covered in light fabric with stripes and flowers.
34.8 x 20.3 x 18.5 in.
Starting price: € 100
Pair of appliques
18th-19th Century
Gilt- wood and wrought iron, in the shape of a branch with leaves, with three lights on scrolled arms.
41.5 x 11 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400
Pair of appliques
19th-20th Century
Painted and gilt-metal, shaped as intertwined branches, with two lights.
19.9 x 11.8 in.
Starting price: € 300
SCUOLA ITALIANA DEL XVIII SECOLO
Fantastic landscape with Roman ruins and herds
Watercolor on paper.
8.27 x 14.96 in.
Starting price: € 300
Mirror frame
18th-19th Century
Carved, green painted and gilded wood, with large scrolls, foliage falls and rosettes.
Partially repainted.
68.9 x 42.1 x 3.1 in.
Starting price: € 1.000
Console
18th-19th Century
Rectangular, in carved wood, painted in green and gold, with leaf decoration and rosettes, on fluted column legs, modern pink marble top.
Partially repainted.
37.2 x 38.8 x 19.7 in.
Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 600
Table tilting mirror
19th Century
Walnut and ebonized wood, with rectangular tilting mirror supported by swans, rectangular base with drawer on the front.
21.9 x 15.9 x 9.6 in.
Starting price: € 300
Fireplace mirror
France, first half of 19th Century
Rectangular, mahogany, with carved and gilded wooden edges.
Damage and signs of aging.
49.2 x 56.7 in.
Starting price: € 100
Chest-of-drawers
19th Century
Three drawers, with gilt wood and brass applications, with gray marble top, on tapered legs.
39.8 x 45.1 x 21.5 in.
Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 800
Secrétaire desk
18th-19th Century
Walnut with brass and gilt metal applications, with upper fallfront and lower door.
58.9 x 22.8 x 13.2 in.
Starting price: € 600
DOMINIQUE LOUIS PAPETY 1815-1849
Family on a boat
Oil on canvas, signed lower right recto.
18.50 x 21.26 in.
Starting price: € 2.000
Carpet
Kashan, 1950's
Floral decorations in shades of blue with a central red medallion.
126.8 x 86.6 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Bed
19th-20th Century
Wrought iron, painted and gilded, shaped with large scrolls and spirals, single bed. In the lot also a pair of appliques in wrought and gilded iron, shaped with large scrolls of ribbons, with one light. Electrified.
Slight damage and wear to the gilding.
Bed 59.8 x
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Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 150
Pair of appliques
20th Century
Metal with passemanerie mounts with gilt bronze applications, with two lights on gilt bronze double scrolled arms.
22.4 x 9.1 x 8.7 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 225
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