FURNITURE, PAINTINGS, WORKS OF ART
AUCTION
Tuesday, April 2 2019 - Sala Bolaffi, Via Cavour 17, Turin
11am
VIEWING
from Thursday 28 March to Tuesday 2 April (Sunday included) from 10am until 6pm
Sala Bolaffi, via Cavour 17, Turin
Lot 51
PORCELAIN FLASK
Japan, late 17th – early 18th century
Square section with the shoulders as a combination of four trapezoids, short cylindrical neck, decoration painted in blue, red, green, black and gold, consisting on two sides of a composition with trees and rocks, the
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 550
Lot 52
SIX SMALL METAL BOTTLES
Japan, Meiji period
With painted, applied or cloisonné enamels, ovoid shape, short neck with flared mouth, floral decoration.
Height 3.54 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 200
Lot 53
Ōban polychrome woodcut, signed Hiroshige ga in the lower left corner, published by Tsutaya Kichizō. From the series 'Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji' Fuji sanjūrokkei.
14.17 x 9.45 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 475
Lot 54
Ōban polychrome woodcut, signed Hiroshige ga on the left margin, published by Uoya Eikichi. From the series 'One Hundred Famous Views of Edo' Meisho Edo hyakkei. Gently lined and restored.
13.98 x 9.06 in.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 1.800
Lot 55
Ōban polychrome woodcut, signed Hiroshige ga in the lower left corner. From the series 'One Hundred Famous Views of Edo', Meisho Edo hyakkei, published by Uoya Eikichi. Slightly trimmed on long margins.
13.39 x 8.46 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 500
Lot 56
Ōban polychrome woodcut, signed Hiroshige ga in the lower right corner published by Uoya Eikichi. From the series 'One Hundred Famous Views of Edo', Meisho Edo hyakkei. Lined.
13.98 x 9.84 in.
Starting price: € 1.500 | Sold for : € 1.500
Lot 57
Ōban polychrome woodcut, signed Hiroshige ga in the lower left corner. From the series 'One Hundred Famous Views of Edo', Meisho Edo yakkei, published by Uoya Eikichi.
13.58 x 9.25 in.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 1.000
Lot 58
Ōban polychrome woodcut, signed Hiroshige ga in the lower left corner and published by Tsutaya Kichizō. From the series 'Famous Sights of the Fifty-three Stations', Gojūsan tsugi meisho zue. Lined.
13.58 x 9.06 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 500
Lot 59
Ōban polychrome woodcut, signed Hiroshige ga in the lower left corner, published by Tsutaya Kichizō. From the series 'Famous Sights of the Fifty-three Stations' (Gojūsan tsugi meisho zue). Lined.
13.58 x 9.06 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400
Lot 60
Ōban polychrome woodcut, signed Hiroshige ga in the lower left corner, published by Koshimuraya Heisuke. From the series 'Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces', Rokujūyoshi meisho zue.
14.17 x 9.65 in.
Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 800
Lot 61
Ōban polychrome woodcut, signed Hiroshige ga in the upper right corner, published by Takenouchi Magohachi. From the series 'Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road',Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi.
9.65 x 14.57 in.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 2.000
Lot 62
Ōban polychrome woodcut, signed Hiroshige ga in the upper righ corner, published by Takenouchi Magohachi. From the series 'Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road' (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi no uchi).
9.65 x 14.17 in.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 1.700
Lot 63
Two beautiful polychrome woodcuts in aitanzaku format, titled Yellow bird and iris and Yamabuki and bullfinch, signed Hiroshige hitsu in the lower right corner.
12.4 x 4.45 in.
12.2 x 4.49 in.
Starting price: € 1.500 | Sold for : € 2.000
Lot 64
Group of eleven black and white woodcuts drawn from the three volumes of 'One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji', Fugaku hyakkei. Four have a lot of joints, different sizes.
7.48 x 5.31 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 850
Lot 65
Nagaban tatee polychrome woodcut, signed Zen Hokusai Iitsu hitsu in the lower left corner, published by Moriya Jihei, from the series 'Mirror of Chinese and Japanese poets', Shiika shashinkyō. Slightly trimmed, some delicate restoration.
19.80 x 8.82 in.
Starting price: € 2.000 | Sold for : € 4.200
Lot 66
Nagaban tatee polychrome woodcut, signed Zen Hokusai Iitsu hitsu on the right margin, published by Moriya Jihei. From the series 'Mirror of Chinese and Japanese poets', Shiika shashinkyō. Some delicate restorations.
19.49 x 8.66 in.
Starting price: € 3.000 | Sold for : € 5.500
Lot 67
Ōban polychrome woodcut, signed Saki no Hokusai Iitsu hitsu in the upper left corner, from the series 'Remarkable Views of Bridges in Various Provinces', Shokoku meikyō kiran.
9.45 x 14.37 in.
Starting price: € 1.500 | Sold for : € 2.800
Lot 68
Ōban polychrome woodcut, signed Saki no Hokusai Iitsu hitsu in the upper left corner and published by Nishimura Yohachi, from the series 'Thirty-six View of Mount Fuji', Fuji sanjūrokkei.
9.84 x 14.57 in.
Starting price: € 1.500 | Sold for : € 1.500
Lot 69
Ōban polychrome woodcut, signed Saki no Hokusai Iitsu hitsu in the upper left corner, published by Nishimura Yohachi, from the series 'Thirty-six View of Mount Fuji', Fuji sanjūrokkei. Some
delicate restorations.
9.65 x 14.37 in.
Starting price: € 2.000 | Sold for : € 4.400
Lot 70
FIGURE OF WEI TUO
China, 19th-20th Century
Carved, dry-lacquered and gilded wood. Figure fixed with wooden pins on the square base. Wei Tuo is the 'guardian of the entrance' in the Buddhist temples, the commander of the 'thirty-two celestial generals' and hence one of the
Starting price: € 1.500 | Sold for : € 2.800
Lot 71
LIU HAI RIDING THE TOAD
China, Qing dynasty, late 17th-18th Century
Stoneware painted with iron oxide over the glaze. White translucent crackled glaze with bluish highlights. Liu Hai is holding the toad with his hands under its throat. On the reverse, in addition to
Starting price: € 1.500
Lot 72
ELEPHANT SADDLED AND HARNESSED IN JADE
China, Qing dynasty, Qianlong reign period (1736-1795)
Céladon-coloured nephrite on one side, with russet vein on the other, carved in the round but plain. On both sides of the saddle cover there is finely engraved scenery of
Starting price: € 3.000 | Sold for : € 10.000
Lot 73
LARGE BOWL
China, 20th Century
Green jade with white inclusions.
4.9 x 12 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 550
Lot 74
TWO LONGQUAN CERAMIC DISHES
China, Ming dynasty, 14th-15th Century
Circular section with ring base, rounded walls and barbed rim, incised and moulded decoration, one with a floral composition the other with a geometric pattern to the centre of the interior, both with an
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 1.000
Lot 75
PAIR OF AGATE HANDLED BOWLS
China, 20th Century
Both standing on a circular base, two handles shaped as an animal's head with a movable ring.
1.5 x 3.1 x 2 in.
Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 300