The upcoming “Furniture, paintings and works of art” sale, featuring 476 lots from carefully-selected private collections, will take place on April 11^th in Sala Bolaffi in Turin. The Oriental art section will open the auction with 150 objects made out of jade, ivory, coral, and porcelain, including the Marinello porcelain collection, a carved lacquer round box (Qing Dynasty, 19th century, starting price 1,000 euros), a Meiping vase (China, XIX-XX century, starting price 4,000 euros), and small sculptures and paintings.
Among the most precious objects of the European art section are an unpublished canvas by the leading Neapolitan painter of the late 17th century Luca Giordano, “La Coronazione di spine” (starting price 10,000 euros), as well as a mythological scene by Bolognese Lorenzo Pasinelli, pupil of Simone Contarini, "Amore disarmato dalle ninfe di Diana" (starting price 33,000 euros) and a river landscape by Vittorio Amedeo Cignaroli (from 6,000 euros).
A prestigious selection of furniture includes an important, early 18^th-century commode from Piedmont (starting price 7,000 euros) and a bureau cabinet from the Veneto-Trentino area entirely varnished in olive briar (starting price 45,000 euros) from a Roman collection.
Among the lots from private collections, there is the refined collection of antique glass of Giuseppe Clinanti (1914-2007), the president of the Experimental Murano Glass Station, comprised of over 100 hand-blown and engraved glass pieces which range from the 16th to the 20th century. The sale ends with a series of objects of royal and papal provenance.

 
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