FURNITURE, PAINTINGS, WORKS OF ART
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
Lot 491
Kazak carpet
Caucasus, 1880 circa
Typical geometrical decoration on a red ground and a border on blue ground.
Wear and defects.
82.7 x 70.9 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 492
Kirman Carpet
Persia, 1900 circa
Arabesque decoration on a red and blue ground, border with elegant floral motifs.
63 x 96.9 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 200
Lot 493
Ceramic anthroporphic whistle vase
Peru, Chimú culture, 10th-12th Century
Globular body vase joined trough a bridge-shaped handle to a seated anthropomorphic figure.
5.9 x 7.9 x 3.5 in.
Starting price: € 500
Lot 494
Silver and silver-gilt tea set
Latvia, 19th-20th Century
Comprising teapot, milk jug, sugar bowl and cookie stand, bombé, with vertical flutes, gilt inside. Also marked with Russian marks, Fabergé mark and LR initials.
2.612 g
9.6 x 11.4 x 6.3 in.
Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 1.000
Lot 495
Retour d'Egypte oil lamp
Probably Rome, early 19th Century
On yellow and white marble rectangular base with oval mount, with patinated bronze stem depicting an Egyptian figure holding a double oil lamp and the snuffer with chain, with bronze and fabric arch lampshade.
Minor defects, damages to the lampshade fabric.
16.1 x 6.1 x
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Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 1.800
Lot 496
Pair of Retour d'Egypte half columns
19th Century
Plaster carved with hieroglyphics, scenes of everyday life and Egyptian gods, with modern wooden base.
82.7 x 23.6 in.
Starting price: € 1.000
Lot 497
Sunset over the Atlas
Oil on canvas.
39.57 x 25.00 in.
With the opening of the Suez Canal, the appeal of the Near East had become more relevant than ever, and the demand for Orientalist-themed works increasingly important on the market also thanks to the resounding international success of
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Starting price: € 10.000 | Sold for : € 10.000
Lot 498
Mattino nei dintorni di Sultaniè 1858
Oil on canvas.
10.63 x 18.35 in.
Signed and dated lower right recto.
Bearing on the reverse labels of 'Galleria d'arte Fogliato', Turin and 'Galleria Il Prisma', Cuneo.
Pasini's passion for the Near East was born during an incredible diplomatic mission in Tehran in
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Starting price: € 30.000
Lot 499
Walnut dressing table
First half of 19th Century
With shaped base and column legs with gilt-bronze finials, with two drawers, a mirror and five compartments inside the top.
Damages to the top, the inside mirror broken.
31.5 x 26.8 x 18.5 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400
Lot 500
Three biscuit figures
19th Century
Representing two female figures from the ancient, one of which marked 583 and inscribed 'biscuit de Vienne' and a faun.
The faun broken and restored.
11.8 x 5.1 x 3.5 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 200