Furniture, paintings and works of art
AUCTION
Wednesday 16 April 2025
From 11.00 a.m. (lots 1-151) to 2.30 p.m. (lots 152-490)
Spazio Bolaffi, Corso Verona 34/D, Torino
VIEWING
From Friday 11 to Wednesday 16 April (Sunday excluded), from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Spazio Bolaffi, Corso Verona 34/D, Torino
Lot 76
SCUOLA NORDICA DEL XVIII SECOLO
The Holy Family
Oil on canvas.
35.04 x 27.56 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 1.400
Lot 77
SCUOLA NORDICA DEL XVIII SECOLO
Frieze with cherubs
Oil on canvas.
23.62 x 59.05 in.
Starting price: € 2.000
Lot 78
Wall sconce
18th-19th Century
Carved gilt-wood, oval with rocailles frame and leaf scrolls, double light with painted tolla leaf arms, the mirror coeval.
Damage, oxidation to the mirror.
16.5 x 11 x 4.7 in.
Starting price: € 150
Lot 79
Pair of Madera columns
Spain, 19th Century
Carved, painted and partially gilt-wood, with fluted stem and Doric capital.
42.1 x 5.5 x 5.9 in.
Starting price: € 200
Lot 80
18th Century and later
Openworked, carved gilt-wood with rocailles decoration and floral clasps, protruding cymatium, mirror replaced.
63 x 39.8 x 5.9 in.
Starting price: € 600
Lot 81
SCUOLA DEL XVIII SECOLO
Portrait of a Lady
Oil on canvas.
29.53 x 25.59 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 800
Lot 82
Frame
18th-19th Century
Carved gilt-wood.
16.9 x 20.9 x 2.8 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 100
Lot 83
Duke of Genova Camp bed
19th Century
Partially painted wrought iron, interlocking, a gilt wood crown on top, on the two front sides two friezes in the shape of Savoy eagle, covered in modern Savoy blue fabric with coat-of-arms passemanerie.
Please note that this lot, being declared of cultural interest, is
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Starting price: € 2.500 | Sold for : € 3.000
Lot 84
SAVERIO MANETTI 1723-1785
Storia Naturale degli Uccelli, Firenze 1771-1776
Group of three copperplate engravings with coeval colouring taken from the volume by Manetti, the plates were drawn, engraved and coloured by Lorenzo Lorenzi and Violante Vanni. All framed.
13.7
Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 425
Lot 85
CHARLES PERCIER 1764-1838 E PIERRE FRANCOIS LEONARD FONTAINE 1762-1853
Sketch for three furnishings 1789
Pencil and watercolor on paper, inscribed 'Vaze à laver', 'Canapé' and 'Fauteuil de toilette'. It is a preparatory drawing for the volume Palais, Maison et autres édifices modernes dessinés à Rome/ Publiés à Paris par Ch. Percier et P.F.L. Fontaine en 1798.
4.33 x 8.19
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Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 600
Lot 86
JAMES BASIRE 1730-1802
Landscape with bridge and a knight circa 1765
Copper engraving, based on a drawing by Guercino, published by John Brydell, London.
9.84 x 24.80 in.
Starting price: € 100
Lot 87
GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI 1720-1778
Veduta del Ponte e Castello Sant'Angelo 19th Century
Beautiful etching in a 19th-Century edition, within burlwood frame.
14.96 x 23.03 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 370
Lot 88
ELIO ETTORE XIMENES 1855-1926
Panorama della città di Torino 1884
Woodcut taken from the volume ‘Turin and the Italian Exposition of 1884. Cronaca illustrata della Esposizione Nazionale Industriale ed Artistica', part of the double issue n. 4-5 which, folded, occupied pp. 33-40.
10.24 x 30.71 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 125
Lot 89
Important drawing room furniture
19th Century and later
Including six chairs, two sofas, and a coffee table en suite, the shaped seats richly decorated in carved and gilt-wood with floral and leaf motifs and rocailles with shell clasps, the curled legs and feet upholstered in antique pink silk satin, the coffee table en
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Starting price: € 3.000
Lot 90
Tryptich
18th-19th Century
Rectangular, with cabinet closure, the central part probably depicting Artemis or Hera, between herds and a putto; on the doors two small oval paintings depicting flights of puttos and floral garlands, within a finely inlaid frame of gilt-metal, bone and
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Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 600
Lot 91
Pair of pillars
Spain, 19th Century
Carved painted wood.
18.1 x 3.5 x 2.8 in.
Starting price: € 200
Lot 92
Table
19th Century
Walnut, the top in mottled marble with bronze applications and openwork baluster, two small drawers, tapered and fluted legs.
28.7 x 23.6 x 23.6 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 450
Lot 93
SCUOLA FRANCESE DEL XVIII SECOLO
The letter
Oil on canvas.
20.87 x 24.80 in.
Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 700
Lot 94
Pair of candle-holders
Engraved and chiselled gilt-bronze, the stem supported by tritons, the bobeches in the shape of large gadrooned vases, on a circular tripod base with feral feet.
6.7 x 4.3 x 4.3 in.
Starting price: € 150
Lot 95
Chest-of-drawers
Probably France, 18th Century and later
Partially painted, lacquered wood, with ebonised drawers also inside, with three drawers, the front shaped, the top in white Carrara marble and handles and hardware in gilt-bronze ribbon-shaped.
Restoration, remake and replacement.
33.1 x 51.2 x 27.6 in.
Starting price: € 2.200
Lot 96
SCUOLA ITALIANA DEL XIX SECOLO
Landscape with figures
Oil on canvas.
39.76 x 59.25 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 500
Lot 97
Pair of shelves
19th Century
Painted and gilt-wood, polylobate, with carved leaf motif clasps on the front.
14 x 11.4 x 9.4 in.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 325
Lot 98
Carpet
Persia, Isfahan, 20th Century
Polychrome decoration with floral motifs on light blue and cream ground.
74.8 x 43.3 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 325
Lot 99
Small mirror frame
18th-19th Century
Carved, painted and gilt-wood, with frame in the form of a classical architectonic element, with two caryatids supporting the architrave, and mirror.
Damage, missing, minor restoration, the mirror not coeval.
20.9 x 20.9 x 3.5 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 275
Lot 100
Chinoserie longcase clock
England, 18th-19th Century
Lacquered wood case painted in black and gold, gilt-metal dial with an engraved and signed hour ring featuring Roman numerals, small seconds subdial, calendar aperture, and month indication on top.
Movement with hour chime on a passing bell, anchor escapement, and
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Starting price: € 800 | Sold for : € 800