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 401
Pair of large floor candlesticks
Piedmont, 18th-19th Century
Carved gilt-wood, gilt-metal and crystals, tripod, on feral feet, with baluster stem, electrified with six lights.
84.1 x 15 x 15 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 500
Lot 402
Pair of paintings depicting Flora and 'Time revealing Beauty'
Oil on canvas and board.
35.43 x 47.24 in.
Starting price: € 2.000 | Sold for : € 3.000
Lot 403
Commode à abattant
Lombardy, mid-18th Century
Shaped, with curl feet, with three drawers and a fall front with four small drawers inside.
40.2 x 31.5 x 17.7 in.
Starting price: € 2.000 | Sold for : € 2.000
Lot 404
Silver sugar bowl
Probably Piedmont, early 19th Century
On circular base, baluster-shaped, smooth, with geometrical decoration borders, handles in form of horse heads, the circular cover with ring-shaped handle.
190 g
5.5 x 5.1 x 3.5 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 405
Silver sugar bowl
Turin, end of 18th Century
Quadrangular base, baluster-shaped, with water-leaf borders and an engraved floral decoration, geometrically scrolled handles, strongly graded cover.
238 g
6.3 x 4.9 x 3.1 in.
Starting price: € 500
Lot 406
Tea and coffee set
Carlo Balbino, Turin, after 1824
Comprising teapot, coffee pot, milk jug and sugar bowl, with poly-lobed piriform bodies, scrolled handles, a teapot and a coffee pot with ivory rings inserted into the handles. In the lot also a silver flower tea strainer, a silver-plated égoiste teapot, a silver-plated
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Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 900
Lot 407
Pair of silver candlesticks
Giuseppe Felice Borrani, Turin, late 18th Century
Smooth, with fluted column stem and palmettes rims and fluted knot.
872 g
10 x 5 in.
Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 800
Lot 408
Silver coffee pot
Italy, 20th Century
Piriform, with twisted flutes, wooden handle, with twisted lambrequin beak, with flowers on top.
560 g comprising the wooden handle.
9.1 x 6.7 x 3.5 in.
Starting price: € 250
Lot 409
Portraits of Vittorio Amedeo II and Anna Maria of Orléans
Oil on canvas in oval.
29.92 x 23.23 in.
Beautiful pair of portraits of the Queen and the so-called Savoyard Fox, the first King of the House of Savoy, the one who made Piedmont one of the most important among the
Starting price: € 3.000
Lot 410
Important maiolica presentation dish
Moustier, 1720 circa
Oval, in maiolica decorated in underglaze blue in the 'Berain' manner with King Vittorio Amedeo II coat-of-arms in the center, with the arms of the Kingdom of Sicily (1713 - 1720) and of the Kingdom of Sardinia (1720 - 1730).
A fixed passing transversal crack.
26.4 x 21.3
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Starting price: € 2.000 | Sold for : € 6.500
Lot 411
Silver and silver-gilt chalice
Italy, 18th-19th Century
On circular domed base, with pairs of putti heads embossed within reserves on opacified ground and acanthus leaves rim, baluster stem with pairs of putti heads, silver-gilt glass mounted on silver base with putti heads alternated with baskets of flowers within reserves
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Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 2.400
Lot 412
Wooden sculpture
18th Century
Carved, painted and gilt wood, depicting a bishop with miter.
15.7 x 9.8 x 4.7 in.
Starting price: € 200
Lot 413
Silver pyx
Turin, 1803-1809
On circular domed base with beaded edge and leaf decoration on embossed and chiseled geometrical reserves, smooth silver-gilt bowl with acanthus silver base, domed cover partially fluted within geometrical decorations and acanthus leaves.
718 g
12.6 x 5.1 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 2.400
Lot 414
Miscellaneous group of objects
Including a pair of painted wood sculptures depicting two heads of angels, a wooden sculpture depicting the Madonna and Child and other objects.
The angels 9.1 x 4.7 x 3.5 in. circa
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 475
Lot 415
Large maiolica stoup
Liguria, 18th-19th Century
White and blue maiolica, in the form of a shell, the Good Shepherd at the center.
3.9 x 15 x 14.6 in.
Starting price: € 200
Lot 416
Comunione di San Girolamo 18th Century
Oil on canvas.
24.80 x 18.50 in.
18th Century copy based on the model of the masterpiece kept in the Vatican Museum painted between 1611 and 1614 by Domenico Zampieri, known as Domenichino.
The work depicts the moment when St. Jerome, now ninety years old and on his
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Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 800
Lot 418
Chandelier
19th Century
Gilt-tole and white porcelain, with six scrolled arms with flowers and leaves.
Damages to the gilding, lacks. Some lights applied in addition on the arms and on top of the chandelier.
Height 31.9 in.
Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 1.900
Lot 419
Pair of single bed backs
19th Century
Headboard and footboard in walnut carved with panels and reserves, with curly legs.
46.7 x 41.9 x 1.6 in.
Starting price: € 200
Lot 420
Lady portrait
Piedmontese school, 18th Century
Oil on canvas, mounted within a decorative shaped recent mirror frame in carved and painted wood with roses falls.
Mirror frame 63 x 55.1 in.
Portrait 31.5 x 25.6 in.
Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 1.300
Lot 421
Kazak carpet
Pakistan, 20th Century
Cerulean ground with lozenge pattern, and double border on a beige and black ground with floral decorations.
Wear and defects.
72.4 x 65.7 in.
With purchase certificate.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 250
Lot 422
Two maiolica pharmacy
18th-19th Century
White and blue maiolica, baluster shaped, the preparation name in black at the center of the body.
Damages and lacks.
The higher 7.7 x 4.9 in.
Starting price: € 200
Lot 423
Three landscapes with figures
Oil on rectangular canvas in oval.
17.72 x 13.78 in.
Starting price: € 1.500 | Sold for : € 1.500
Lot 424
Fireplace mirror
19th Century
Carved gilt-wood, shaped, a leafy clasp at the center of the upper part, from which two falling laurel wreaths depart.
Minor lacks and damages, the mirror replaced.
40.6 x 61 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400
Lot 425
Kuba Carpet
Caucasus, 1900 circa
Cream ground with geometrical and floral decoration, border in blue and burgundy ground.
Wear and defects.
57.9 x 101.6 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300