FURNITURE, PAINTINGS, WORKS OF ART
Important auction characterized by great quality and unexceptionable origins. The first part of the catalogue is dedicated to oriental art with 150 lots made out of jade, ivory, coral and porcelain. The second session is dedicated to the western arts including two prestigious private collections, the one of a Roman gentleman with high-period furniture, and the collection of Giuseppe Clinanti of antique glass, composed of pieces of absolute rarity from the 16th to the 19th Century. As regards the paintings there are important pictures of the 17th and 18th Century, among which an unpublished canvas by a young Luca Giordano and a great mythological scene by Lorenzo Pasinelli. The 19th Century is represented by a large painting of museum quality by Antonio Zona, two rare oils by Giovanni Giani and a beautiful landscape by Lorenzo Viani. The sale ends with a series of objects of royal and papal provenance, and with an eclectic silver candlestick whose adventurous story will be disclosed to you in the Bolaffi saleroom.
11 am | lots 1-145
2 pm | lots 146-476
Turin - Sala Bolaffi, via Cavour 17
VIEWING
5/11 April Turin - Sala Bolaffi, via Cavour 17 (10-13 am | 2-6 pm)
Lot 101
JADE FIGURE WITH HORSE
China, 20th Century
In white jade with apple green inclusions, on a wooden base.
2 x 1.5 x 1 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 600
Lot 102
SILK TAPESTRY
China, 19th Century
Embroidered with “the hundred children” on light blue silk, the verso lined in silk.
Defects and fading, damages and breaks to the lining on the reverse.
104.3 x 56.3 in.
Starting price: € 2.000
Lot 103
JADE VASE
China, 19th-20th Century
Of archaic profile, in white jade with spinach green colored veins. With glued wooden base.
2.8 x 0.9 x 0.6 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 950
Lot 104
PAIR OF JADE BIRDS OF PARADISE
China, 20th Century
In céladon jade with black inclusions, with shaped bases in carved wood.
8.3 x 2 in.
Starting price: € 500
Lot 105
TURQUOISE MINIATURE VASE WITH MAGNOLIA AND HIBISCUS FLOWERS
China, 19th Century
Light and homogeneous turquoise, almost without veins, on wooden base.
2.6 x 2 x 1.6 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 700
Lot 106
TURQUOISE FIGURE
China, 20th Century
In turquoise with marked black veins, depicting a female figure with a mirror, glued on a wooden base.
4.7 x 3 x 1.2 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 107
TURQUOISE FIGURE
China, 20th Century
In light turquoise with few black veins, depicting a female figure with basket and flower. On wooden base.
3.1 x 3 x 2 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400
Lot 108
WHITE AND BLUE PORCELAIN CUP ON HIGH FOOT
China, 20th Century
In the central part and inside are depicted dragons with five claws among lotus flowers, at the base of the body a band of petals. Inside the foot a brush inscription under glaze大 明 宣德 年 製 da Ming Xuande nianzhi ("produced during the reign of Xuande of the great Ming
read all
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 500
Lot 109
LARGE PORCELAIN VASE
China, 20th Century
In green porcelain, globular, realistically shaped as cabbage leaves with caterpillars, a geometric decoration at the base and on the neck's rim.
25.4 x 15.7 in.
Starting price: € 1.500 | Sold for : € 1.500
Lot 110
TWO TURTLE CARAPACES
A larger one, darker, and a smaller one.
Damages and losses to the border of the larger one.
The larger 31.5 x 27.6 x 5.9 in.
Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 250
Lot 111
COCO DE MER ON A STONE BASE
Seychelles, 20th Century
Lodoicea Maldivica nut, mounted on an octagonal base in light porous stone.
The Maldivian Lodoicea is a plant that grows exclusively on the Seychelles islands. Its walnut is the largest seed in the world and its archaic name, Lodoicea Callypige, derives from its
read all
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 350
Lot 112
CROCODILE IN TAXIDERMY
19th-20th Century
This is brobably a beautiful and almost perfectly preserved exemplar of Crocodylus Niloticus in taxidermy.
Minor lacks.
34.4 x 7.5 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 250
Lot 113
HEXAGONAL TORTOISE-SHELL BRUSH HOLDER
South China, Quing dynasty, 20th century
Assembled tortoise-shell carved with cloud motifs , crossed by tilting cranes.
5.5 x 3.5 in.
Starting price: € 400
Lot 114
TORTOISE-SHELL BOX AND FAN
China, Canton, 19th-20th Century
Carved and engraved tortoise-shell. The box, in tortoise-shell assembled, decorated on the lid with flowers and leaves motifs, the fan with wooden handle, carved with a motif of seven dragons in the clouds, mounted in a glass panel.
Vertical ageing crack on the edge of
read all
Starting price: € 400
Lot 115
TORTOISE-SHELL RUYI SCEPTER
China, Quing dynasty, 20th century
Assembled tortoise-shell, carved and engraved with grape vine motifs and squirrels and a motif with a regular weave on the reverse.
18.9 x 5 in.
Starting price: € 1.500
Lot 116
RHINO-HORN LIBATION CUP
China, Quing dynasty, 19th-20th century
Carved in the shape of a pond, with carps, flowers and lotus leaves on the surface and a crane along its side. At the base apocryphal engraving of four characters: 乾隆 年 製 Qianlong nianzhi ("produced during the Qianlong period"). Accompanied by a gemological analysis
read all
Starting price: € 1.500 | Sold for : € 2.000
Lot 117
THREE GILT BRONZE BUDDHA
Thailand, 19th Century
All the three sculptures depict the seated cross-legged Buddha on steps of sloping size, the surface of all worked in slight relief with floral and geometrical patterns.
The larger 9.8 x 5.7 x 3.5 in.
Starting price: € 700 | Sold for : € 700
Lot 118
KNEADING TROUGH
Middle East, 19th Century
Rectangular, on balauster feet, with pinnacle edges, rough top, the front entirely engraved with floral geometric decoration, a sliding door on the front.
44.1 x 39.8 x 19.5 in.
Starting price: € 500
Lot 119
THREE BOXES
South East Asia, 20th Century
Lacquered in red and black, a shorter one with compartments inside, a larger one, cylindrical, with red and black lacquered on the verso inside top, and a smaller one, cylindrical, with green and black lacquered on the verso internal top.
The larger 9.8 x 10.6 in.
Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 500
Lot 120
WOODEN CHEST
Probably India, 18th-19th Century
Rectangular, in partially red lacquered wood and lined with a geometric openwork in brass and studs, with four drawers at the base.
Damages and losses.
19.5 x 46.5 x 19.5 in.
Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 800
Lot 121
THANGKA BHAVACAKRA
Tibet, 20th Century
Traditional representation of the so-called Wheel of Existence, with the Three Poisons in the center (greed, ignorance and hate) represented respectively by rooster, boar and snake inside a band in which the growth of man is depicted,
in the six segments six divine and
read all
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 122
PRAYER REEL
Tibet, 20th Century
Made of an ivory handle and a silver cylinder with ivory band with carved Mantra, which rotates on a central pin. The cylinder, that can be opened, contains the prayer roll, tightly wrapped around itself.
11.4 x 2.8 in.
The Mani, or prayer reel, is a prayer tool used by
read all
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 800
Lot 123
BUDDHA'S HEAD
South East Asia, 20th Century
In ebonized wood, with strongly elongated ears.
9.1 x 4.5 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 124
DECORATIVE METAL SPHERE
India, 19th Century
With embossed warrior figures, mounted on a quadrangular plexiglass base.
Bruises.
15.4 x 5.7 in.
Starting price: € 300
Lot 125
BRAHMA'S HEAD
India, probably 12th Century
Stone sculpture.
Losses and wear.
15.7 x 9.5 x 15 in.
Starting price: € 300