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
Coffee table
19th Century
Walnut, oval, shaped top, tripod.
Damage, replacement and restoration.
22.4 x 39 x 22.4 in.
Starting price: € 300
Silver salt cellars set
London, 1870
Including six salt cellars gilded on the inside, with ashlar decoration and a cartouche with engraved monogram on the front, and six silver and silver-gilt teaspoons with a series of Moundy Pence dated between 1855 and 1867. In original molded case in partially gilt
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Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 325
Silver tea service
Probably William Holmes, 1837
Composed of teapot, milk jug and sugar bowl, lobed bodies, embossed and chiseled, with floral decoration and cartouches. Milk jug and sugar bowl gilded inside.
1.410 g
Teapot 5.9 x 10.8 x 6.9 in.
Starting price: € 800
Silver-gilt centrepiece
Martin & Hall, Sheffield, 1898-1899
Oval with shaped edge, with embossed, chiselled and engraved and partially opaque leaf decoration.
2.066 g
7.5 x 13.4 x 9.4 in.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 1.900
Lorenzo De' Medici
Probably France, circa 1870
Glazed earthenware painted in polychrome.
33.9 x 14.2 x 16.5 in.
Starting price: € 1.200 | Sold for : € 1.500
Skeleton clock
France, second half of the 19th Century
Case made up of the brass plates of the mechanism.
White enamel dial with Roman numerals for the hours, subsidiary dials for the day of the month and the month, movement with Brocot anchor escapement and silk
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 850
Group of four walking sticks
19th-20th Century
Wood, metals, silver, with zoomorphic knob.
Wear and defects.
35.4 x 3.9 x 1 in.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 150
Group of five walking sticks
19th-20th Century
Wood, metals, silver, with zoomorphic knob.
Wear and defects.
35.4 x 3.9 x 1 in.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 150
Group of four walking sticks
19th-20th Century
Wood, metals, silver, with zoomorphic knob.
Wear and defects.
35.4 x 3.9 x 3.9 in.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 150
Group of five walking sticks
19th-20th Century
Wood, metals, silver, with zoomorphic knob.
Wear and defects.
35.4 x 3.9 x 3.9 in.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 200
SCUOLA INGLESE DEL XIX SECOLO
Sleeping boy
Oil on shaped canvas, within beautiful carved, engraved and gilt-wood double frame.
31.50 x 27.95 in.
Starting price: € 3.000 | Sold for : € 3.000
Silver inkwell
John Edward Walter & John Bernard, London, 1870-1871
Rectangular shaped base with feral feet with two cylindrical containers with a flame on top and one rectangular with an oil lamp on top.
One glass container missing.
1.150 g
6.7 x 10.6 x 7.5 in.
Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 750
Large roll-top desk
Probably England, 19th Century
Veneered in walnut and burlwood, inlaid with boxwood and various essences in filets, geometric, phytomorphic and grotesque motifs, on the front one large drawer, nine small drawers, the writing desk concealed by a roller cover has a sliding top covered in green fabric
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Starting price: € 1.000
GUGLIELMO CIARDI 1842-1917
Bassa Marea 1875-1880
Oil on canvas, signed lower right recto.
19.88 x 30.71 in.
Starting price: € 2.500 | Sold for : € 19.000
Cense burner on stand
19th Century
Alabaster carved with garlands of flowers, a blossom on the lid, on an engraved and lacquered wooden column depicting the Three Graces. Electrified and lamp-mounted.
Damage to the lacquer, small cracks and losses.
22.4 x 10.2 x 10.2 in.
Starting price: € 300
PIETRO FRAGIACOMO 1856-1922
Laguna
Oil on canvas, signed lower right recto.
12.99 x 24.21 in.
Starting price: € 1.800 | Sold for : € 6.500
CLÉMENT MASSIER 1844-1917
Large cache-pot
Glazed sang de boeuf majolica, the gadrooned vase rests on a triangular section column, the stem with three griffins.
59.05 x 24.80 x 24.80 in.
Starting price: € 1.500 | Sold for : € 1.700
Pair of candelabra
19th-20th Century
Gilt-bronze, painted wood and marble, the baluster stem on a round foot engraved with leaf motifs and fluted, with four-lights with detachable bobeches, the marble base on curled feet.
17.3 x 5.3 x 5.3 in.
Starting price: € 250
Portico clock
France, 19th Century
Portico clock
France, 19th Century
Movement with hour and half chime, anchor escapement and spring suspension, compensated pendulum type.
Missing suspension, pendulum unhooked.
16.9 x 9.4 x 5.1 in.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 150
Carpet
Persia, Qum, 20th Century
Polychrome decoration with floral motifs on mustard and ecru ground.
120.1 x 71.3 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Cabinet
Attributed to Hunsinger et Wagner, Paris, 1873-1883
Carved and ebonised wood, veneered with marquetry, various woods, essences, and engraved bone, on the front two doors decorated with large vases of flowers, with butterflies and dragonflies, and a drawer. Standing on a pair of Ionic capitals-shaped columns with fluted
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Starting price: € 1.500
FRANCIS HUMPHREY WOOLRYCH 1868-1941 E BERTHA HEWITT WOOLRYCH 1868-1937
The Pythia
Watercolor on paper, signed lower left recto.
17.32 x 12.60 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 200
Pair of cranes
19th Century
Dark patina bronze, one electrified.
28 x 9.8 x 4.7 in.
Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 275
Prayer carpet
Persia, 20th Century
Polychrome floral decoration on cream and blue ground.
88.6 x 55.1 in.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 2.400
EMILIO GOLA 1851-1923
Young woman lying
Oil on board.
9.65 x 23.23 in.
Starting price: € 2.500
ANTOINE-LOUIS BARYE 1796-1875
Lionne couchée
Gilt-bronze, signed.
3.54 x 7.28 x 2.56 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 300
Guéridon
19th-20th Century
Ebonized wood, hexagonal, turned legs.
28 x 24.8 x 21.7 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 150
Icon
Central Russia, mid-19th Century
Tempera on gold leaf applied on board, depicting the Savior of Sovloki.
12.6 x 10.2 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 325
Icon
Kiev, early 19th Century
Tempera on gold leaf applied on board, depicting four scenes.
14 x 11.8 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 600
Icon
Russia, 19th Century
Tempera and mixed media on board, depicting the Four Mothers of God.
15.7 x 12.2 in.
Starting price: € 600
Icon
Russia, 19th Century
Tempera and mixed media on gold leaf, engraved and embossed edges, decorated with the imitation enamel technique, depicting four scenes.
14 x 11.8 in.
Starting price: € 400
Icon
Russia, 19th Century
Tempera and mixed media on gold leaf applied on board, depicting the ‘Twelve holidays’.
15 x 12.2 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 475
Icon
Kiev, early 19th Century
Tempera on gold leaf applied on board, depicting the Mother of all.
13.4 x 11 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 475
Mirror frame
19th Century
Carved gilt-wood, round, with halo decoration, the mirror replaced.
16.5 x 16.5 x 1.8 in.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 250
Vase
19th Century
Lacquered and gilt-wood, with double-handled handles and strings of gilt-wood beads, with a stylized Greek frieze and a small mirror applied to the body, electrified and mounted as a lamp.
16.3 x 8.3 x 5.9 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Pair of Madera columns
Spain, 19th Century
Carved, painted and partially gilt-wood, with fluted stems and Corinthian capitals, on quadrangular bases.
14.6 x 2 x 2 in.
Starting price: € 200
Pair of armchairs
19th-20th Century
Walnut, the armrests lion's head-shaped, the back with an applied bronze clasp with leaf motifs, lined in brown fabric.
35.8 x 21.7 x 20.9 in.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 475
CHRISTOPHE FRATIN 1801-1864
Wild boar hunting circa 1850
Dark patina bronze, signed, on wooden base.
12.99 x 16.93 x 6.69 in.
Bibliografia/Literature
Kjellberg P., Les bronzes du XIXe siècle: Dictionnaire des sculpteurs, Paris, 1996, p. 326.
Starting price: € 1.500 | Sold for : € 1.800
Obelisk
20th Century
Papier mâché covered with velvet green leaves.
32.7 x 5.9 x 5.9 in.
Starting price: € 100
Desk
19th Century
Mahogany, with four drawers and a roll-top door, the top in dark green leather.
31.5 x 51.2 x 31.5 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 275
ATTRIBUITO A ANDREAS MARKÓ 1824-1895
Group of four landscapes 1884
Oil on board, signed and dated lower left recto.
The largest 12.80 x 14.96 in.
(4)
Starting price: € 3.500
Piccolo belga
19th Century
Dark patina bronze, on black marble base, signed on the side and titled at the base.
11 x 10.2 x 5.9 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 200
Mirror frame
19th-20th Century
Oval, carved gilt-wood, with a double decorative frame, the outer one with stylised floral motifs, the inner one with repeated leaf motifs.
29.9 x 24 x 1.2 in.
Starting price: € 300
ATTILIO PRENDONI 1874-1942
Child
Dark patina bronze, signed at the base.
8.66 x 3.94 x 5.51 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 250
Large table
19th-20th Century
Mahogany, double-top, two drawers on the front, baluster legs.
35.4 x 84.6 x 21.1 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 1.500
GAETANO FASANOTTI 1831-1882
Bellagio
Oil on canvas, signed lower right recto.
15.75 x 27.56 in.
Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 1.900
ERCOLE CALVI 1824-1900
Veduta di Laghi 1859
Oil on canvas, signed lower left recto.
26.38 x 37.40 in.
Starting price: € 1.500 | Sold for : € 2.400
ATTRIBUITO A BEPPE CIARDI 1875-1932
Landscape 1904
Oil on board, signed and dated on the reverse.
8.46 x 12.20 in.
Starting price: € 700
ENRICO REYCEND 1855-1928
Landscape
Oil on masonite, signed lower right recto.
19.68 x 27.56 in.
Starting price: € 1.500
ATTRIBUITO A BEPPE CIARDI 1875-1932
Landscape - Florence 1926
Oil on board, signed lower right recto, titled and dated on the reverse.
7.87 x 11.81 in.
Starting price: € 700