AUCTION
Wednesday 16 April 2025
From 11.00 a.m. (lots 1-151) to 2.30 p.m. (lots 152-490)
Spazio Bolaffi, Corso Verona 34/D, Torino
VIEWING
From Friday 11 to Wednesday 16 April (Sunday excluded), from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Spazio Bolaffi, Corso Verona 34/D, Torino
MANIERA DI GIOVANNI PAOLO CASTELLI DETTO LO SPADINO, XVIII SECOLO
Pair of still lives
Oil on canvas.
21.65 x 39.17 in.
(2)
Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 1.300
Polonaise bed
Late Louis XV, attributed to Louis Delanois, Paris, circa 1770
Cream lacquered and partially-gilt wood, the headboard and footboard, of different sizes, shaped and curled, the crossbars carved with rosebud clips and leaf motifs, upholstered with modern fabric with phytomorphic motifs on a cream ground.
51.2 x 78.7 x 59.1 in.
Starting price: € 1.200
SCUOLA VENETA DEL XVII SECOLO
Sofonisba taking poison
Oil on canvas.
37.80 x 44.09 in.
Starting price: € 12.000
JOAN BLAEU 1596-1673
Augustae Taurinorum Prospectus Late 17th Century
Copper engraving depicting the first bird's eye view of the city of Turin before the second enlargement, taken from the famous ‘Theatrum Sabaudiae’. Framed.
19.68 x 43.31 in.
Provenienza/Provenance
Lib
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 850
JOAN BLAEU 1596-1673
Pair of views from 'Theatrum Sabaudiae' Late 17th Century
Beautiful copper engravings from one of the editions of ‘Theatrum Sabaudiae’, one depicting ‘Palatium Publicum Civitatis Augustae Tarurinorum’ and the other ‘Valentinum Christinae a Francia
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 600
JOHANN WILHELM BAUR 1607-1640
Pair of views of Rome
Gouache on paper, one depicting the Pantheon and one the façade of a noble palace.
22.44 x 27.56 in.
(2)
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 650
Pair of appliques
18th-19th Century
Shaped, carved gilt-wood, with rocailles decoration, leafy scrolls and floral clasps, with four-lights, scrolled gilt-metal arms, electrified.
31.5 x 14.2 x 7.9 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400
Corner cabinet
18th Century and later
Walnut with marqueterie veneering, double door, with shelves inside, in the lot also a tripod stand table, similar.
Restoration and replacement to the corner cabinet.
Corner cabinet 54.3 x 29.1 x 16.9 in.
Table 30.3 x 25.6 x 24 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 500
Pair of small shelves
18th-19th Century
Carved, lacquered and gilt-wood, shaped with leaf volutes and rocailles.
Minor cracks, lacquer damage and wear to the gilt.
9.8 x 7.9 x 4.9 in.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 950
Pair of moors
Probably Veneto, 18th-19th Century
Painted and partially gilt-wood.
Defects, damage, lacks and breaks, wear to the gilding.
The largest 24.4 x 8.7 x 5.5 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 325
Chest-of-drawers
Probably Piedmont, late 18th Century and later
Walnut, with three drawers with inlaid fillet profiles.
Damage, replacement and restoration.
35.8 x 47.6 x 21.3 in.
Starting price: € 500
Pair of appliques
18th-19th Century
Carved, lacquered and gilt-wood puttos-shaped, the double-light arms in gilt-tolla with leafy branch decorations. Electrified.
Damage and cracks.
15.4 x 15.4 x 4.9 in.
Starting price: € 300
SCUOLA VENETA DEL XVII SECOLO
Landscape with knights
Oil on canvas, within carved gilt-wood frame with water leaves decoration.
45.28 x 67.72 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 2.000
Chest-of-drawers
Probably Piedmont, 18th-19th Century
Walnut, with four drawers, shaped front, curled feet.
Restoration, replacement, remake.
40.6 x 53.1 x 21.7 in.
Starting price: € 600
Pair of moors
Probably Veneto, 18th Century and later
Carved, partially-gilt, ebonized and painted wood, on carved and partially painted porphyry-like columns, with floral decorations, on a square base, both supporting gilt-tolla candlesticks, decorated with rosebuds and leaves, with five lights, probably later,
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Starting price: € 2.000 | Sold for : € 2.000
Chest-of-drawers
Turin, mid-18th Century
Walnut burlwood, with fillet inlays and phytomorphic decorations, shaped front, with four drawers, beautiful shaped top in Busca Alabaster.
Slight damage, replacement and remake; the top restored.
38.6 x 51.2 x 24.6 in.
Starting price: € 2.000 | Sold for : € 2.000
ATTRIBUITO A BARTOLOMEO BETTERA 1639-1668
Still life with maritime globe and musical instruments
Oil on canvas.
29.53 x 46.65 in.
Starting price: € 10.000 | Sold for : € 11.000
Mirror frame
18th-19th Century
Carved gilt-wood, double molded frame, with probably unrelevant cymatium, coeval mirrors.
Damage, replacement and remake.
34.3 x 16.5 x 1.4 in.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 225
Moor
18th-19th Century
Carved, painted and partially gilt-wood, depicting a Moor holding a shelf in the shape of a cornucopia.
56.7 x 19.7 x 15 in.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 1.600
Mirror frame
18th Century
Carved gilt-wood, rectangular with moulded cymatium, with rocailles border, with leaf and phytomorphic motifs on top.
Some cracks, missing, restoration, oxidation to mirror.
41.1 x 21.9 x 4.7 in.
Starting price: € 400
SCUOLA EMILIANA DEL XVII SECOLO
Esaù che risana la vista a Isacco
Oil on canvas.
47.24 x 62.20 in.
Starting price: € 8.000 | Sold for : € 11.000
Monumental console
19th Century and later
Carved and gilt-wood, on four rocailles legs with large scrolls of flowers and leaves joined by a crosspiece centred by a trophy of flowers, openwork band with large scrolls of flowers and leaves and a large central trophy of flowers, shaped black marble top.
41.7 x
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Starting price: € 3.000
SCUOLA BOLOGNESE DEL XVIII SECOLO
Announcing Angel and Announced Virgin
Oil on canvas, within coeval carved and decorated cabbage-leaf frames.
50.39 x 37.80 in.
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Starting price: € 12.000 | Sold for : € 16.000
SCUOLA VENETA DEL XVIII SECOLO
The washing of the feet
Oil on canvas.
32.48 x 37.80 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 500
SCUOLA PIEMONTESE DEL XVIII SECOLO
The Call of Peter
Oil on oval canvas.
20.08 x 14.96 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 800
SCUOLA NORDICA DEL XVIII SECOLO
The Holy Family
Oil on canvas.
35.04 x 27.56 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 1.400
SCUOLA NORDICA DEL XVIII SECOLO
Frieze with cherubs
Oil on canvas.
23.62 x 59.05 in.
Starting price: € 2.000
Wall sconce
18th-19th Century
Carved gilt-wood, oval with rocailles frame and leaf scrolls, double light with painted tolla leaf arms, the mirror coeval.
Damage, oxidation to the mirror.
16.5 x 11 x 4.7 in.
Starting price: € 150
Pair of Madera columns
Spain, 19th Century
Carved, painted and partially gilt-wood, with fluted stem and Doric capital.
42.1 x 5.5 x 5.9 in.
Starting price: € 200
18th Century and later
Openworked, carved gilt-wood with rocailles decoration and floral clasps, protruding cymatium, mirror replaced.
63 x 39.8 x 5.9 in.
Starting price: € 600
SCUOLA DEL XVIII SECOLO
Portrait of a Lady
Oil on canvas.
29.53 x 25.59 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 800
Frame
18th-19th Century
Carved gilt-wood.
16.9 x 20.9 x 2.8 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 100
Duke of Genova Camp bed
19th Century
Partially painted wrought iron, interlocking, a gilt wood crown on top, on the two front sides two friezes in the shape of Savoy eagle, covered in modern Savoy blue fabric with coat-of-arms passemanerie.
Please note that this lot, being declared of cultural interest, is
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Starting price: € 2.500 | Sold for : € 3.000
SAVERIO MANETTI 1723-1785
Storia Naturale degli Uccelli, Firenze 1771-1776
Group of three copperplate engravings with coeval colouring taken from the volume by Manetti, the plates were drawn, engraved and coloured by Lorenzo Lorenzi and Violante Vanni. All framed.
13.7
Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 425
CHARLES PERCIER 1764-1838 E PIERRE FRANCOIS LEONARD FONTAINE 1762-1853
Sketch for three furnishings 1789
Pencil and watercolor on paper, inscribed 'Vaze à laver', 'Canapé' and 'Fauteuil de toilette'. It is a preparatory drawing for the volume Palais, Maison et autres édifices modernes dessinés à Rome/ Publiés à Paris par Ch. Percier et P.F.L. Fontaine en 1798.
4.33 x 8.19
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Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 600
JAMES BASIRE 1730-1802
Landscape with bridge and a knight circa 1765
Copper engraving, based on a drawing by Guercino, published by John Brydell, London.
9.84 x 24.80 in.
Starting price: € 100
GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI 1720-1778
Veduta del Ponte e Castello Sant'Angelo 19th Century
Beautiful etching in a 19th-Century edition, within burlwood frame.
14.96 x 23.03 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 370
ELIO ETTORE XIMENES 1855-1926
Panorama della città di Torino 1884
Woodcut taken from the volume ‘Turin and the Italian Exposition of 1884. Cronaca illustrata della Esposizione Nazionale Industriale ed Artistica', part of the double issue n. 4-5 which, folded, occupied pp. 33-40.
10.24 x 30.71 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 125
Important drawing room furniture
19th Century and later
Including six chairs, two sofas, and a coffee table en suite, the shaped seats richly decorated in carved and gilt-wood with floral and leaf motifs and rocailles with shell clasps, the curled legs and feet upholstered in antique pink silk satin, the coffee table en
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Starting price: € 3.000
Tryptich
18th-19th Century
Rectangular, with cabinet closure, the central part probably depicting Artemis or Hera, between herds and a putto; on the doors two small oval paintings depicting flights of puttos and floral garlands, within a finely inlaid frame of gilt-metal, bone and
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Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 600
Pair of pillars
Spain, 19th Century
Carved painted wood.
18.1 x 3.5 x 2.8 in.
Starting price: € 200
Table
19th Century
Walnut, the top in mottled marble with bronze applications and openwork baluster, two small drawers, tapered and fluted legs.
28.7 x 23.6 x 23.6 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 450
SCUOLA FRANCESE DEL XVIII SECOLO
The letter
Oil on canvas.
20.87 x 24.80 in.
Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 700
Pair of candle-holders
Engraved and chiselled gilt-bronze, the stem supported by tritons, the bobeches in the shape of large gadrooned vases, on a circular tripod base with feral feet.
6.7 x 4.3 x 4.3 in.
Starting price: € 150
Chest-of-drawers
Probably France, 18th Century and later
Partially painted, lacquered wood, with ebonised drawers also inside, with three drawers, the front shaped, the top in white Carrara marble and handles and hardware in gilt-bronze ribbon-shaped.
Restoration, remake and replacement.
33.1 x 51.2 x 27.6 in.
Starting price: € 2.200
SCUOLA ITALIANA DEL XIX SECOLO
Landscape with figures
Oil on canvas.
39.76 x 59.25 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 500
Pair of shelves
19th Century
Painted and gilt-wood, polylobate, with carved leaf motif clasps on the front.
14 x 11.4 x 9.4 in.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 325
Carpet
Persia, Isfahan, 20th Century
Polychrome decoration with floral motifs on light blue and cream ground.
74.8 x 43.3 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 325
Small mirror frame
18th-19th Century
Carved, painted and gilt-wood, with frame in the form of a classical architectonic element, with two caryatids supporting the architrave, and mirror.
Damage, missing, minor restoration, the mirror not coeval.
20.9 x 20.9 x 3.5 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 275
Chinoserie longcase clock
England, 18th-19th Century
Lacquered wood case painted in black and gold, gilt-metal dial with an engraved and signed hour ring featuring Roman numerals, small seconds subdial, calendar aperture, and month indication on top.
Movement with hour chime on a passing bell, anchor escapement, and
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Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 800