Furniture, paintings and works of art
AUCTION
Thursday 12 December 2024, from 2.30 p.m. (lots 1-309)
Spazio Bolaffi Torino, corso Verona 34/D
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Thusday 12 December, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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Lot 26
Group of three paintings
China, early 20th Century
Ink and colours on silk, the first depicting a procession of gods, the second two large figures on horseback in the landscape (one large seal at the top and two in the lower right-hand corner), the third a large
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 550
Lot 27
Pair of potiches
China, 20th Century
Porcelain with Imari-type enamel decoration, circular cross-section and low-profile lid with knob grip.
31.9 x 15 x 15 in.
Starting price: € 1.500 | Sold for : € 1.500
Lot 28
Group of three dishes
China, 20th Century
Porcelain with Imari enamel decoration.
Minor chips.
The larger diameter in. 8.9
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 100
Lot 29
Group of three dishes
China, 20th Century
Porcelain with Imari enamel decoration.
Minor chips.
Diameter in. 8.7
Starting price: € 100
Lot 30
Group of three dishes
China, Qing dinasty, early 18th Century
Porcelain with Imari enamel decoration.
Minor chips.
The larger diameter in. 11
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 150
Lot 31
Large painting
China or Korea, early 20th Century
Ink and colours on paper applied on canvas within European-style painted wooden frame, depicting a crowded procession starting on the upper left, moving through streets lined with architecture and enters into the lower register from right to left.
33.5 x 59.1 in.
Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 800
Lot 32
Pair of armchairs
China, 20th Century
Elegantly turned mahogany essence, accompanied by cream silk cushions with floral decoration.
34.6 x 24 x 21.7 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 425
Lot 33
Baluster vase
China, 20th Century
Porcelain with polychrome enamel decoration depicting dragons in flight amidst clouds and fish amidst waves and rocks, Buddhist lions shaped handles on the neck.
18.1 x 9.1 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 225
Lot 34
Baluster vase
China, 20th Century
Porcelain with polychrome enamel decoration depicting three male figures in landscape, inscription with seals, mark in centre of base, attributed to Wang Qi (1884-1937).
16.5 x 7.1 in.
Starting price: € 800
Lot 35
Baluster vase
China, 20th Century
Polychrome enamel decoration with figures of deities in the landscape, Buddhist lions shaped handles on the neck.
14.6 x 7.9 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 175
Lot 36
Showcase
China, 20th Century
Wood, the large upper case with elegant slender profiles, the two lower compartment doors decorated with a circular medallion with two dragons around a bi-disc, two spotlights.
Uncut glass shelves, electrified.
71.7 x 31.9 x 12.4 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 425
Lot 37
WU JINGHENG 1865-1953
Calligraphy
Eight characters in archaic style, colophon and two seals.
Framed.
42.91 x 22.44 in.
Wu Jingheng, also known under the pseudonym Wu Zhihui, was a renowned linguist and philosopher, author of good quality calligraphies.
Starting price: € 900 | Sold for : € 900
Lot 38
Pair of large cache-pots
China, 20th Century
Porcelain with polychrome enamel decoration, the outside with a black background and floral elements on which ogival profile reserves with compositions of figures and objects stand out, inside goldfish among aquatic herbs.
21.3
Starting price: € 1.500 | Sold for : € 2.000
Lot 39
Baluster vase
China, 20th Century
Famille Verte porcelain, polychrome enamel painting above glaze, four-character Xuantong mark in the centre of the base, with exuberant decoration of figures in landscape and pavilions.
25.2 x 8.7 x 8.7 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 500
Lot 40
Large cache-pot
China, 20th Century
Porcelain with polychrome enamel decoration depicting on the outside a refined decoration with figures in the landscape, trees, pavilions, streams and hills; on the inside, fish swimming among aquatic grasses.
23.6 x 20.1 in.
Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 1.000
Lot 41
Baluster vase
China, 20th Century
Porcelain with polychrome enamel decoration depicting floral elements and containers of different shapes in accentuated relief.
23 x 8.3 x 8.3 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 450
Lot 42
Pair of table screens
China, 20th Century
Carved and lacquered gilt-wood, the panels, rectangular, finely carved in relief and ‘open’ with geometric, anthropomorphic and phytomorphic motifs, the central panel with figures of warriors in a landscape with rocks and trees, on shaped bracket feet.
32.7 x 15.7 x 12
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Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 800
Lot 43
Pair of dancing deities
India, 19th-20th Century
Bronze, on a lotus flower-shaped base.
7.1 x 4.3 x 2.2 in.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 225
Lot 44
Stem cup
Tibet, 20th Century
Metal, wood and cabochon inlays of semi-precious stones, the base has a circular cross-section on which a green jade stem is grafted to support the metal and wooden cup.
6.3 x 11.4 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 750
Lot 45
Seated Buddha
Thailand, 18th-19th Century
Gilt-bronze.
5.9 x 3.5 x 2.6 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 100
Lot 46
Standing Buddha
Thailand, 19th-20th Century
Gilt-bronze, the deity depicted standing on a multi-register base.
28.7 x 6.5 x 6.5 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 47
Baluster vase
Japan, Meiji period
Imari porcelain, Jōsei (上製) mark in centre of base.
Measures excluding the wooden base.
24 x 11.4 x 11.4 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 48
Painting
Japan, Meiji period
Ink and colours on silk, in the format of the horizontal scroll to be unrolled (emakimono), depicting from right to left a sequence of scenes illustrating the processing of tea, and depicting utensils for its preparation, Japanese silk
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 49
Monumental cense-burner
Japan, Meiji period
Dark patina bronze, on a circular section base, richly decorated on various registers, signed 日本帝國東京住藤原利定造 (Nihon mikado kuni Tokyo Fujiwara Toshisada zō, ‘Made by Fujiwara Toshisada resident in Tokyo in the Empire of Japan’).
Starting from the bottom we see a group of
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Starting price: € 3.000 | Sold for : € 7.000
Lot 50
SCUOLA ITALIANA DEL XVI SECOLO
Moses brings forth water from the rock
Oil on canvas.
51.97 x 42.52 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 600