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 61
Large coral group with a female deity
China, early 20th Century
The monumental sculpture presents on the upper branch a fully rounded representation of the bodhisattva Guanyin, in the left hand a fruit and in the right hand a flask, the remaining surface finely carved with floral motifs, stylized waves and monkeys.
5.162 g
15.7 x 15.7
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Starting price: € 6.000
Lot 62
Coral group with a female deity and squirrels
China, early 20th Century
Depicting on the right the bodhisattva Guanyin dressed in a wide robe, a vase with flowers in his hands, on the branches flowers and squirrels
Small chips.
1.056 g
12.6 x 13.4 in.
Starting price: € 1.500 | Sold for : € 2.000
Lot 63
Coral group with a bird, children and animals
China, early 20th Century
Depicting in the upper part a bird resting on a branch, on the remaining surface children, deer and monkeys.
652 g
12.2 x 5.5 in.
Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 1.200
Lot 64
Embroidered silk panel
18th-19th Century
Mounted on wooden support, in creme silk embroidered with chinoiserie with birds and flowers.
Wear and damages to the silk.
84.6 x 57.3 in.
Starting price: € 1.000
Lot 65
Blue and white porcelain vase
China, 20th Century
Circular section, the body with a larger diameter than the neck, the curved handles with animal heads to the upper side, the decoration on the body consisting of figures in the landscape, the neck with twisted branches, apocryphal Jiajing mark at the center of the base.
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Starting price: € 300
Lot 66
Libation cup
China, Qing dynasty, 17th-18th Century
With an oval-shaped section, on the outside it presents an exquisite relief decoration of nine Chilong dragons freely arranged on the surface, one of which invades with the front of its body the inside of the rear section of the mouth, on the opposite side a three-ring
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Starting price: € 10.000
Lot 67
Silver ceremonial dish
China, early 20th Century
Silver of very high fineness, shaped in eight petals, with relief of two flying phoenixes in the center, a band with animals and birds on the cavetto, eight cartouches on the rim, each containing a quadruped among floral arabesques, the bottom with a dragon flying
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Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 500
Lot 68
Partially gilt silver incense burner and cover
China, early 20th Century
Silver of very high fineness, of circular section, with large bell-shaped base supporting a bowl with the two handles shaped as rings protruding from lion’s jaws, the hemispherical lid with a lotus flower finial, decorated with parallel horizontal bands alternate to
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Starting price: € 750 | Sold for : € 750
Lot 69
Pair of partially gilt silver kneeling figures
China, early 20th Century
Modeled in the round in a silver of very high fineness, both depicting a kneeling character, dressed in a large robe decorated with incised and gilded floral motifs and a hemispherical headdress, both hands supporting a phoenix in the round with a circular section
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Starting price: € 1.500 | Sold for : € 1.500
Lot 70
Pair of partially gilt silver bowls
China, early 20th Century
Silver of very high fineness, shaped in eight lobes each adorned with a bird flying amidst leafy scrolls, in the center two fishes around a flaming pearl.
312 g
1.5 x 4.9 in.
Starting price: € 500