AUCTION
Thursday 28 10 a.m. | lots 1-585
Sala Bolaffi, via Cavour 17, Turin
VIEWING
from 19 to 22 and from 26 to 28 April 2022, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Sala Bolaffi Torino, via Cavour 17
Interior of a ruin with figures
Oil on canvas, signed recto lower left.
12.80 x 9.84 in.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 1.000
Flash sofa
Late 18th Century
Bench converted into a flash sofa, with removable shaped back, scrolled armrests, fluted obelisk legs, upholstered in ocher silk velvet.
Backrest with later stops, legs probably shortened.
40 x 89 x 30.3 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Assumption of the Virgin
Naples, 18th Century
Carved, painted and gilt wood, on twentieth-century base.
Lacks, color losses and signs of woodworm.
23.6 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 2.200
Center table
19th Century
Center table
19th Century
Geometrical inlay, top upholstered in partially gilt-leather, a front drawer, legs joined by crosspiece.
30.7 x 34.6 x 22 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 200
Chest-of-drawers
Late 18th Century
Kingwood and tulipwood veneered with geometrical inlays.
36.2 x 46.1 x 21.1 in.
Starting price: € 2.000 | Sold for : € 2.000
Two chests-of-drawers
20th Century
Two similar chests-of-drawers, in inlaid wood, with three drawers, in neoclassical style.
36.2 x 50 x 22.4 in.
Starting price: € 1.000
Carpet
20th Century
Floral decoration on light ground, with light blue border.
61.4 x 36.4 in.
Starting price: € 650
Chest-of-drawers
19th-20th Century
Inlaid wood chest of drawers with four drawers, with later onion feet.
Breaks, lacks, restorations and replacements.
36.6 x 53.9 x 20.5 in.
Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 250
Chest-of-drawers
Late 18th Century
Inlaid chest-of-drawers, two reserves with figures on the sides, on the top a circular reserve with floral inlay, with three drawers, with fluted obelisk legs.
38.6 x 48.8 x 22.2 in.
Starting price: € 1.200 | Sold for : € 1.200
Carpet
Persia, 20th Century
Floral decoration in shades of red and blue on cream background.
Widespread wear.
105.1 x 69.7 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Chest-of-drawers
Late 18th Century
Inlaid in briar with threaded edges, with three drawers.
Restorations and replacements.
35.8 x 48.4 x 20.5 in.
Starting price: € 800
Pair of armchairs
18th Century
Walnut, with canneté seat and backrest, rectangular backrest and fluted legs, with striped silk cushion.
Small damage and wear, wear and stains to the cushion silk.
36.2 x 24.6 x 21.7 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 375
Game table
18th-19th Century
Rectangular, with openable top, with green leather inside top, inlaid with geometrical decoration, a frieze on the front inlaid with landscapes, fluted legs.
Damage, losses and replacements.
30.3 x 32 x 16.5 in.
Starting price: € 500
Group of three chairs
18th-19th Century
Walnut, with canneté seat and backrest, oval backrest and fluted legs, two with green silk cushion, one with striped silk cushion.
One canneté seat broken, small damage and wear, wear and stains to the cushions.
38 x 20.9 x 18.9 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 200
Pair of bedside carpets
20th Century
Geometrical patterns on red ground.
50.8 x 30.7 in. and 48.4 x 31.1 in.
Starting price: € 650
Small mirror frame
18th-19th Century
Rectangular, with shaped gilt and painted wood frame with flowers and leaves falls.
Small damage and losses.
40.9 x 18.7 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Frame with mirror
19th-20th Century
Gilded and ebonized wood.
Damage to the frame.
37 x 30.3 in.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 300
Bureau à abattant
Late 18th Century
Walnut with geometrical inlays, with two drawers, rouleau fallfront and sliding writing top lined in green cuir, inside the fallfront four small drawers and a compartment.
Damage and wear.
42.7 x 45.9 x 20.9 in.
Starting price: € 1.500
Heraldry
Group of three wooden trays containing hundreds of matrices for heraldic coats of arms, most of them from beyond the Alps, of great decorative effect.
31.5 x 15.7 in.
Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 250
Carpet
Persia, 20th Century
Floral and geometric decoration in shades of orange and blue.
Wear.
72.8 x 55.1 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Table
18th-19th Century
Walnut, with a drawer on the front and fluted legs.
31.1 x 45.1 x 28.1 in.
Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 350
Folding ladder
Italy, 20th Century
In woods of different essences.
Height 96.5 in.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 475
Landscape with figures 1860
Oil on canvas, signed and dated. Within coeval gilt-wood frame, bearing a plate indicating the author.
50.39 x 70.08 in.
Starting price: € 3.500 | Sold for : € 3.500
Sommier sofa
18th-19th Century
Walnut, with fluted column legs, upholstered in green velvet.
33.5 x 90.9 x 31.9 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400
Chandelier
Murano, 20th Century
Glass and rose and green crystals, with fifteen lights.
Some damage and lacks.
22.4 x 29.5 in.
Starting price: € 800
Wardrobe
19th Century
Walnut, with two doors, with internal shelves, drawer and stick.
87.8 x 56.3 x 20.9 in.
Starting price: € 800
Wardrobe
18th-19th Century
Walnut, with two shaped doors, shelves inside, original iron lock.
70.5 x 46.5 x 17.7 in.
Starting price: € 300
Pair of decorative friezes
19th Century
Fake marble painted wood, obelisk shaped with a sphere on top.
25.2 x 6.3 x 6.3 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400
Embroidered panel
18th-19th Century
Embroidered panel
18th-19th Century
Cut and shaped embroidered canvas panel, mounted on rough canvas, within a geometric shaped wooden frame painted in marbled yellow and blue.
44.5 x 31.5 in.
Starting price: € 200
Double bed
19th Century
Carved walnut, with quadrangular uprights and prism finials, on tapered legs.
53.5 x 67.3 x 84.6 in.
Starting price: € 400
Landscape
Oil on canvas.
Within coeval gilt wood frame.
29.53 x 39.37 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 800
Applique
19th-20th Century
Wrought iron and gilt bronze decorated with spikes.
26 x 25.2 x 8.3 in.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 150
Pair of demi-lune tables
18th-19th Century
Walnut, tripod, a drawer on the front, matched.
Small damage and scratches, wormholes.
31.3 x 51.8 x 25.6 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 1.700
Wooden frieze
19th Century
Rectangular, carved and gilt wood with laurel wreaths with ribbons handles.
15 x 35 x 2.8 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 200
Corner cupboard
18th Century and later
Walnut with brass applications, with two doors, silk lined inside, with a shelf and some modern metal hanger hooks.
Wear, losses to the brass applications.
84.6 x 35.6 x 21.7 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400
Center table
19th Century
Tripod, circular, the top inlaid with geometric motifs.
Damage to the top.
29.5 x 27.6 in.
Starting price: € 300
Pair of appliques
20th Century
Cut crystal, with three lights.
10.8 x 12.2 x 9.1 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 350
Still life with sparrows and blackberries
Oil on board.
7.87 x 10.43 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 125
Writing desk
Late 18th Century
Walnut, with a front drawer and openable top, the upper part with sliding opening and three small drawers at the base.
Damage, defects and wear.
44.7 x 30.3 x 20.1 in.
Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 600
Pair of candelabra
20th Century
Silver-plated metal and malachite, with five lights.
Wear.
13.4 x 9.4 in.
Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 600
Bureau à abattant
18th Century
Rectangular, inlaid in briar, with three drawers, a compartment and four small drawers inside the fallfront.
43.9 x 40.2 x 21.7 in.
Starting price: € 1.500
Aosta Valley costume
Bronze with brown patina on a quadrangular slate stone base.
Bearing foundry stamp, signed on the back.
15.35 x 7.28 x 4.72 in.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 1.000
In the painter's studio
Oil on board, signed recto lower left.
12.99 x 9.45 in.
Starting price: € 2.500
Silver soup tureen
Turin, 1780 circa
Oval, smooth, with geometrical handles, on four square lambrequin feet, an egg on top of the cover.
Assay and contre-assay marks by Giuseppe Vernoni and Bartolomeo Bernardi.
Restorations and replacements.
1.664 g
7.9 x 13 x 7.3 in.
Starting price: € 1.200 | Sold for : € 1.500
Demi-lune console
20th Century
Inlaid in various essences, on three tapered legs.
Damage to the top.
30.9 x 37.4 x 14.2 in.
Starting price: € 300
Miscellaneous lot
Heterogeneous lot including a pair of candle holders transformed into lamp, a group of eight silver-plated metal trays and serving plates and a silver-plated copper pair of appliques.
Different measures.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 200
Bureau à abattant
18th-19th Century
Walnut, with three drawers, inside the fallfront four small drawers and one compartment. Restorations and replacements, the inside of the fallfront covered in red leather.
40.6 x 48 x 19.9 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 500
Two silver égoiste coffee pots
One coffee pot piriform, smooth, on circular base, with scrolled ebony handle, probably Aix-en-Provence, 18th Century, the other silver gilt coffee pot Cardeilhac, Paris, 20th Century.
126 g comprising the wooden handle.
The largest coffee pot 4.3 x 4.3 x 2.6 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 325