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
Silver tea set
Naples, second half of the 19th Century
Including a samovar, a teapot, a milk jug and a biscuit bowl, with gadrooned bodies and scrolled wooden handles, zoomorphic beaks, teapot and samovar topped with medlar, with bands of floral and shells decoration, lot including also a large silver-plated rectangular
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Starting price: € 3.000 | Sold for : € 3.600
FRANCESCO E PAOLO SANTINI
Carte de l’Isle e du Royaume de Sicile par Guillaume Delisle de l’Académie R.le de Sciences 1779
Copper engraving with coeval colouring.
Widespread spotting.
20.08 x 28.35 in.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 150
JOHANN BAPTIST HOMANN 1664-1724
Cursus Fluminis Padi vel Po per Longobardiam a fonte usque ad Ostia 1735
Copperplate engraving, with coeval coloring, printed from two plates, with decorative title cartouche and map scale. Framed.
24.41 x 50.39 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 400
D'APRÈS JOHANN PETER HASENCLEVER
Das Lesecabinet 1830-1850
Lithograph, painted and varnished, applied on cardboard.
24.41 x 33.46 in.
Starting price: € 100
Pair of obelisks
20th Century
Painted wood.
57.9 x 11.6 x 11.6 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 400
Carpet
Scirvan, Caucasus, 20th Century
Polychrome decoration with geometric motifs on dark and light blue ground.
55.1 x 41.7 in.
Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 1.200
Pair of appliques
19th Century
Gilt-bronze, with ivy vine stem on rocailles, two lights on leafy arms.
Restoration.
13.4 x 11 x 5.9 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 700
Small soup tureen with cover
Probably Giacomo Boselli, late 18th Century
Pearl-ware, with ‘paesini’ decoration in red on both lid and cup.
Unmarked, it could be attributed to the late 18th-Century production of Giacomo Boselli.
Good conservation, some petals of the flower restored.
5.1 x 7.5 x 7.5 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 300
Chest-of-drawers
19th Century
Walnut veneer, with three drawers, gilt-bronze handles lion heads-shaped, a lock within a clasp depicting two facing puttos, at the sides of the drawers two columns with gilt-bronze capitals and bases, inverted pyramids.shaped feet, white marble top.
Damage, replacement
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Starting price: € 500
Mirror frame
18th-19th Century
Mirror frame
18th-19th Century
Octagonal, carved gilt-wood, carved with double leaf volutes and rocailles top.
Damage, cracks, missing and worn gilding.
39.4 x 34.3 x 3.9 in.
Starting price: € 150
Venus
20th Century
Painted earthenware, standing on a column with garlands of flowers, fruit and ribbons.
76.4 x 15.7 x 15.7 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 1.200
Group of four columns
19th Century
One with carved twisted gilt-wood stem, the others round and polygonal in painted wood.
The largest 20.9 x 7.1 x 7.1 in.
Starting price: € 100
Pair of chairs
19th Century
Lacquered, partially painted with phytomorphic motifs, inlaid with mother-of-pearl wood, the back round openwork, on baluster legs.
Lacquer damage, seats to be reupholstered.
33.1 x 15.7 x 15.2 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 200
Silver-gilt travel set
George W. Adams, Chawner & Co., London, 1858
Including a shaped mug, with cast, chiselled and engraved decoration depicting allegories of the four seasons within reserves, on the front a cartouche with engraved dedication dated 1859, and spoon, knife and fork en suite. In original leather, silk and velvet case.
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Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 800
Silver-gilt dessert flatware
Prudent Quitte, Paris, circa 1880
Including twelve forks, twelve spoons, eleven knives, eighteen tea spoons and three cuttlery. The knives with mother-of-pearl handles. All with LL monogram applied.
2.714 g total weight
Different measures.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 1.400
Center table
19th Century
Ebonised wood, the round top inlaid with semiprecious stone and marble, inlaid with silver thread and geometric motifs, tripod with curled feet.
29.5 x 39.4 x 39.4 in.
Starting price: € 1.500
Icon with Rjza
Russia, 19th Century
Embossed silver rjza, depicting Christ Pantocrator.
13 x 10.6 in.
Starting price: € 600
Icon with Rjza
Russia, 19th Century
Embossed, painted and gilt-silver rjza, depicting St. Nicholas.
10.4 x 8.7 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 325
Icon with Rjza
Russia, 19th Century
Embossed silver and polychrome enamels rjza, depicting the Mother of God of Kazan.
10.6 x 8.9 in.
Starting price: € 800
Group of four ice-cream parlours
Ginori, Doccia, second period, second half of the 18th Century
Porcelain, leaf-shaped, with polychrome decoration.
1.6 x 3.7 x 2.8 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400
Pair of sauce boats with lids and a group of dishes
Different manufacturers, Marseille, 18th-19th Century
Majolica, one souce boats with polychrome decoration of cornflowers, the other, Gaspard Robert Manufacture, Marseille, with polychrome decoration of flowers and marked; three dishes with polychrome decoration of landscape with figures, two of which are marked Veuve
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Starting price: € 700 | Sold for : € 700
Meuble d'appui
France, 19th Century
Walnut and burlwood, with applications in burnished bronze.
42.1 x 33.1 x 15.7 in.
Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 600
Pair of appliques
20th Century
Gilt-metal and tolla with phytomorphic motif decoration, leafy falls and scrolls, on the front white porcelain puttos holding a garland of flowers, with four lights.
One putto broken and re-glued.
26.4 x 16.9 x 5.1 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 225
Coffe pot
Probably Trieste, 19th Century
Cream earthenware, globular, smooth, cross-banded handle, a rosebud on top.
Slight firing defects.
11 x 7.5 x 5.1 in.
Starting price: € 100
Pair of rams
20th Century
Carved painted wood.
12.2 x 22.4 x 6.3 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 225
Morbier grandfather clock
mid-19th Century
Ebonized wooden longcase with a glazed front door, white enamel dial with Roman numerals, with embossed gilt decoration, Morbier-type movement with striking train for hours and half-hours on a bell, inverted verge escapement.
Weights missing.
94.5 x 19.7 x 11 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 125
Carpet
Kascan, Persia, 20th Century
Polychrome decoration with floral motifs on a burgundy and turquoise ground.
88.6 x 51.2 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400
Jewellery box
Sèvres Manner, 20th Century
Porcelain, polylobate, with polychrome decoration depicting a gallant scene, partially gilt.
3.9 x 8.7 x 8.7 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 400
Soup tureen
Limoges, France, 20th Century
Porcelain mounted in antimony and bronze, decorated in decal with floral motifs within reserves, lot including also a small cup and a tray.
Soup tureen 8.3 x 10.2 x 4.9 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 200
Écuelle, égoiste tea service and group of dishes
France, 18th-19th Century
Porcelain écuelle with shaped presentoire with branches and flowers decoration, marked Paris, tea service including tray with openwork edge, teapot, milk jug, sugar bowl and two cups with saucer, with polychrome floral decoration, lot includes also a group of eleven
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Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 550
Group of three fans
20th Century
One in paper painted in gold with vases of flowers within reserves and friezes, the sticks painted with bunches of flowers and inlaid and the guards with a mirror applied; one in paper with bead and sequin embroidery in leaf motifs, the sticks and the guards engraved
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Starting price: € 200
Two fans
France, 19th Century
One painted paper fan with ebonised and painted wood sticks and guards; the other in painted paper with a gallant scene, with perforated bone sticks and guards and small glass paste applications.
The second one with some damage and lacks.
The largest 10 x 14.6 in.
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Starting price: € 150
Pair of fans
20th Century
One in tulle with bead and sequin applications, with engraved bone sticks and guards, the other in painted paper with painted sticks and guards. Both framed.
11.8 x 19.3 x 1.6 in.
Starting price: € 150
Vase
19th Century
Earthenware, cylindrical, decorated with an allegorical scene in relief.
11.4 x 6.7 x 6.7 in.
Starting price: € 200
D'APRÈS ÉTIENNE-MAURICE FALCONET
Baigneuse
Dark patina bronze, on green marble base.
16.93 x 5.91 x 5.91 in.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 150
Mirror frame
Veneto, 19th Century
Carved, shaped, lacquered and painted wood with floral motifs, curved feet, small and lightly protruding cymatium, divided into nine coeval mirrors.
Some breaks, slight lacquer damage, oxidation of mirrors.
43.3 x 31.5 x 2 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 1.200
Moon or pilgrim's flask
Minton's Art Pottery, W. S. Coleman, London, circa 1870-1880
Painted majolica, model n. 1498, marked at the base, electrified.
32.3 x 13 x 3.1 in.
Starting price: € 500
Coffe table
19th-20th Century
Oval glass top supported by two carved and gilt-wood amphorae on stepped faux-marble bases.
Damage to the gilding, missing, cracks.
20.5 x 39.8 x 24.8 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 200
Mirror frame
19th Century
Carved and painted wood and stucco with phytomorphic decoration, silver nitrate mirror.
A part missing at one corner.
23 x 29.1 x 0.8 in.
Starting price: € 400
Nymph
20th Century
White marble, on quadrangular black marble base.
13.4 x 5.1 x 3.5 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 225
Half-length portrait of Elisa Baciocchi
19th Century
Alabaster.
17.7 x 9.8 x 6.7 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 500
Carpet
Persia, 20th Century
Polychrome decoration with floral motifs on burgundy and blue ground.
82.7 x 54.3 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 275
JEAN ANTOINE ARMAND VERGEAUD 1876-1949
Portrait of a Lady 1895
Oil on board, signed and dated upper right recto.
24.41 x 19.68 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 650
Pair of candlesticks
France, 19th Century
Gilt-bronze, putto-shaped, standing on a plynth base decorated with flowers and roses friezes, electrified and lamp-mounted.
One without the wings.
20.5 x 6.9 x 3.9 in.
Starting price: € 500
Tallboy cabinet
Probably France, 19th Century
Walnut veneer, with upper flap door and four drawers, marble top, applied bronzes.
45.7 x 13.4 x 10.4 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 500
EMMA REGIS 1854-1898
Portrait of a Lady
Oil on canvas, signed upper right recto.
29.72 x 24.80 in.
Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 2.600
JULIEN CAUSSE 1869-1938
Flore
Bronze, on ebonized wooden base, bearing a cartouche with the title.
A small chip.
9.84 x 5.12 x 3.94 in.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 325
Vermeil fruit flatware
20th Century
Including six smooth saucers with palmette edges, six forks and six spoons. The cutlery with the H monogram surmounted by a marquis column.
Diameter 7.5 in.
Starting price: € 700 | Sold for : € 700
KARL SÄWERT 1888-1958
Laying nude
Oil on canvas.
36.22 x 19.88 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 500
Pendulum clock
France, 20th Century
Gilt-bronze case depicting the allegory of astronomy, white enamel dial with Roman numerals for the hours, movement with anchor escapement and spring suspension, hour and half-hour striking on a bell, regulated by a count wheel. Within glass jar (17.7 x 11.8 x 7 in).
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Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 550