Furniture, paintings and works of art
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
Lot 81
SCUOLA DEL XVIII SECOLO
Portrait of a Lady
Oil on canvas.
29.53 x 25.59 in.
Starting price: € 500
Lot 83
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
Lot 84
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
Lot 85
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
Lot 86
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
Lot 87
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
Lot 88
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
Lot 89
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
Lot 90
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