AUCTION
Tuesday 22 September 2020
9.30 am | lots 1-292
2 pm | lots 293-665
Sala Bolaffi, Torino, via Cavour 17
VIEWING
From Thursday 10 September by appointment only (+39 011 0199101; info@astebolaffi.it).
From Thursday 17 to Tuesday 22 September 2020, free entrance from 10 am to 6 pm.
Sala Bolaffi, Torino, via Cavour 17
Large mirror frame
Parma, first half of 18th Century
Carved gilt-wood with a double frame of mirrors, on scrolled legs, with a high leaf scrolls top, surmounted by a flower trophy, with lateral flowers falls.
Some damages and lacks.
74.4 x 35.4 in.
Starting price: € 1.200 | Sold for : € 1.200
Tortoise-shell and silver-gilt paper knife
London, 1891-1892
With tortoise-shell blade and shaped and openwork silver-gilt handle. With paper label 'Serra Roma Collection', within 'Serra Roma' box.
19.7 x 2 in.
Starting price: € 600
Still life with mushrooms, pumpkin and flowers
Oil on canvas.
29.92 x 42.72 in.
Flower painter among the best known of the Neapolitan school, Belvedere was a man of various interests, from literature to theater, as told by De Dominicis, his biographer (who also tells of a long stay in Spain). And on closer
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Starting price: € 5.000
Large console table
Built with ancient material, with shaped top inlaid in ivory and precious essences with ribbons, volutes and lambrequins, centered by an inlaid gallant scene, with double-scrolled legs.
Serious damage, losses, remakes and replacements.
32.9 x 49.2 x 26.4 in.
Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 1.000
Maiolica serving dish
Giorgio Giacinto Rossetti, Turin or Lodi, 1730 circa
Octagonal, in white and blue maiolica, with 'Rouen' decoration on the rim, at the center the view of the Monte dei Cappuccini and the Po river.
Marked GR at the back.
A crack at the back, chips to the borders.
1.2 x 11.8 x 8.7 in.
Starting price: € 700 | Sold for : € 1.600
Group of prints
Set of five engravings from the 16th to the 19th Century including two after Adrian van Ostade, one after Rembrandt and a Chinese view of the 19th Century.
Different measures.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 375
Veduta del Padiglione Reale ornato per l'esposizione della SS.ma Sindone
Turin, 1737
Etching produced on the occasion of the wedding of Carlo Emanuele with Elisabetta di Lorena. The lot also features the 'Vue de la Maison de la Ville', 1737, a pair of engravings by Thomas Salmon with contemporary coloring and two other views of Turin.
11.8 x 18.5 in.
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Starting price: € 500
Piazza di Monte Cavallo
Rome, 19th Century
Group of four views of Rome, engraved by Cottafavi for Tommaso Cuccioni and a view of the Piazza del Mercato in Vicenza.
7.9 x 10.6 in.
Starting price: € 200
Bureau cabinet
Piedmont, first half of 18th Century
Walnut inlaid in light woods and olive root, with ribbons, leaves scrolls and moved reserves decoration, on onion feet, the lower part with three drawers, inside the flap six small drawers, a compartment and a sliding secret, the upper part with two mirror doors, with
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Starting price: € 8.000
Il ciarlatano After 1648
Etching signed in slab with a curved shape, good impression of the final state, trimmed to the plate, framed. Minor defects. Together with another engraving by Ostade.
5.91 x 4.92 in.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 150