AUCTION
Tuesday 28 October 2025
From 10.00 a.m. to 2.30 p.m.
Spazio Bolaffi, Corso Verona 34/D, Torino
VIEWING
From Thursday 23 to Tuesday 28 October (Sunday excluded), from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Spazio Bolaffi, Corso Verona 34/D, Torino
ENQUIRES
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ARTURO RIETTI 1863-1943
The fencer 1911
Pastels on paper, inscribed and dated lower left recto.
35.43 x 25.20 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 1.300
ATTRIBUITO A FILIPPO CARCANO 1840-1914
The blacksmith's workshop
Oil on masonite applied on board.
4.33 x 5.91 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 375
Pair of Springer Spaniel
Staffordshire, 19th Century
Earthenware.
13.8 x 9.8 x 4.3 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 200
Pair of Springer Spaniel
Staffordshire, 19th Century
Earthenware.
9.3 x 6.9 x 5.5 in.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 150
Group of three Springer Spaniel
Staffordshire, 19th Century
Earthenware.
One with widespread reglued breaks.
The largest 9.8 x 6.9 x 4.7 in.
Starting price: € 150
Group of three Springer Spaniel
Staffordshire, 19th Century
Earthenware.
The largest 7.9 x 6.3 x 3.9 in.
Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 250
Poodle
England, 19th Century
Glazed terracotta.
5.9 x 6.3 x 2.4 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 100
Pug
England, 19th Century
Terracotta.
7.9 x 5.5 x 4.3 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 175
Pair of Springer Spaniel
Staffordshire, 19th-20th Century
Earthenware, the lot also includes two small porcelain poodles.
The largest 9.8 x 7.9 x 5.1 in.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 150
Group of seven Pug dogs
England, 19th-20th Century
Earthenware, terracotta and porcelain.
One box-shaped.
The largest 8.3 x 5.5 x 7.5 in.
Starting price: € 300
Important casket
Possibly Naples, late 18th-early 19th Century
Piqué tortoise-shell, rose gold and mother-of-pearl, ormolu mounted, inlaid decoration depicting mythological scenes between cherubs and shells on the cover and the sides. Inside eight glass bottles with gilt-metal caps.
The ormolu mounted, the lock and the bottles caps
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Starting price: € 15.000 | Sold for : € 15.000
Coffee pot
Wien, second half of the 18th Century
Porcelain, flowers and landscape decoration.
10.4 x 5.9 x 5.1 in.
Starting price: € 250
Group of two trays and two dishes
Manufacture Joseph Hannon, Strasbourg, mid-18th Century
Majolica, over enamel flower decoration.
Widespread felures.
Different measures.
Starting price: € 200
Coffee pot
Wien, second half of the 18th Century
Porcelain, landscape and floral decoration.
Chip on the edge, cover knob missing.
8.9 x 6.1 x 4.7 in.
Starting price: € 150
Pair of appliques
19th Century
Gilt-metal, decorated with scrolls and leaf-shaped swirls, with two lights, electrified.
20.5 x 12.2 x 5.1 in.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 150
Large fireplace mirror
18th-19th Century
Lacquered, painted and partially gilt-wood, with gilt-wood phytomorphic applications, painted faux-marbre base, coeval mirror.
Damage, breaks and lacks.
65.7 x 37 x 3.5 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 550
Carpet
India, 20th Century
Polychrome decoration with floral motifs on burgundy and cream ground.
118.1 x 75.6 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 500
BOTTEGA DI MICHELANGELO MAESTRI
The third hour of the day and The sixth hour of the night
Pair of aquatints on paper.
16.54 x 12.01 in.
Beautiful pair of prints taken from the famous fresco painted by Raphael in the Vatican Rooms depicting representations of Time personified by the Hours. (2)
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Tryptich
France, 1880 circa
Comprising a mantel clock and a pair of candlesticks in gilt-antimony and white marble, the candlesticks with four flames. The clock case is richly decorated with scrolls and rocailles, and embellished with the figures of a young man and a maiden.
White enamel dial
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Starting price: € 400
Bureau à abattant
Early 19th Century
Walnut with geometric and star-shaped inlay patterns on the sides, ebonised wood profiles and feet, three drawers, fallfront with internal drawers, doors and compartments.
Wear and tear, replacements.
42.9 x 54.3 x 24.8 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 500
SCUOLA DEL XIX SECOLO
Pair of landscapes en pendant
Oil on board.
2.95 x 3.94 in.
(2)
Starting price: € 350
SCUOLA DEL XIX SECOLO
Pair of dogs
Oil on canvas, monogrammed 'T.C.' lower right recto, label of 'Antichità Il Balon, Turin' on the reverse.
8.46 x 10.63 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 200
SCUOLA ITALIANA DEL XIX SECOLO
Pair of landscapes
Oil on plywood.
9.84 x 14.57 in.
(2)
Starting price: € 300
Oval dish
East India Company, 19th Century
Porcelain, under enamel landscape decoration.
16.1 x 18.9 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 175
Pair of potiches
Delft, late 18th-early 19th Century
Majolica, chinoiserie decoration in monochrome blue.
Cover missing.
10.6 x 6.3 x 6.3 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 250
Oval dish
East India Company, 19th Century
Porcelain, under enamel decoration depicting scenes of a fence with a vase of flowers and plant motifs.
16.5 x 19.9 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 325
ÉTIENNE MAURICE FALCONET 1716-1791
L'Amour menaçant 1850 circa
Dark patina bronze, signed and dated 1755 on the ribbon, on a circular bronze base decorated with ribbons and resting on four feet.
11.61 x 5.51 x 5.51 in.
Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 250
Soup tureen with tray
Tuscany, Manufacture Ulisse Cantagalli , 20th Century
Majolica, 'tacchiolo' decoration.
Soup tureen 7.9 x 11 x 8.3 in.
Tray 0.8 x 11 x 8.7 in.
Starting price: € 200
Bureau à abattant
Probably Piedmont, late 17th-early 18th Century
Walnut, burl and cherry wood, with inlays in various woods, five drawers and a small fallfront, on bracket, stamped 'Antonio Nano fecit' and dated 1764.
43.3 x 51.2 x 23.6 in.
Starting price: € 800
SCUOLA ITALIANA DEL XIX SECOLO
Pair of Sibyls
Pair of tempera on paper, signed 'Correnti' and dated.
7.87 x 5.71 in.
(2)
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 200
Applique
19th Century
Gilt-tolla, palmette-shaped, with two lights.
Wear to the gilding.
21.3 x 9.8 x 5.9 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 100
Window bench
Probably France, 19th Century
Carved and partially gilt-wood, curved legs with hoof-shaped feet, the armrests joined by crossbars with ram's head-shaped finials, upholstered seat.
Wear to the gilding, damage, breaks and restorations.
24.8 x 27.6 x 20.9 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 475
Prayer carpet
Turkey, 20th Century
Polychrome decoration with geometric motifs on brown ground.
79.9 x 49.2 in.
Starting price: € 200
EDWIN EARP 1851-1945
Pair of oval landscapes
Watercolor on paper, signed lower center recto.
16.34 x 12.60 in.
(2)
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 200
Large mirror frame
18th-19th Century
Carved gilt-wood, shaped, richly decorated with leaf scrolls and rocailles, double frame, on curled feet and topped with a high protruding cymatium.
Wear and tear, slight damage, some breaks, re-gilt.
85 x 46.5 x 2 in.
Starting price: € 600 | Sold for : € 600
Carpet
Europe, 20th Century
Polychrome decoration with floral motifs on burgundy and cream ground.
118.9 x 41.7 in.
Starting price: € 300
Vase with cover
Castelli manner or Naples, 19th Century
Majolica, painted under enamel.
Break to the base, some breaks to the cover.
16.5 x 8.9 x 8.9 in.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 1.400
GIUSEPPE BENASSAI 1835-1878
Portrait of a woman
Watercolor on paper, signed lower right recto.
9.45 x 7.87 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 250
Oval dish
Castelli, 18th-19th Century
Majolica, under enamel landscape and small figures decoration.
10.6 x 14.2 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 175
UGO ALLASON 1844-1920
View of Castel dell'Ovo
Oil on board, signed lower right recto, titled on the reverse.
6.89 x 14.57 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Nymph on a column
19th Century
White marble and Calacatta marble, the column standing on an octagonal base.
67.7 x 10.2 x 10.2 in.
Height nynph 28 in.
Height column 39.8 in.
Starting price: € 600
Chest-of-drawers
19th Century
Walnut, inlaid with fillets and scrolls, with a vase-shaped decoration on the top, with three drawers, on ebonised turned legs.
Damage, replacements.
35.8 x 47.4 x 22 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400
EDGAR GEORGE PAPWORTH 1809-1866
Large view of Naples 1835
Important watercolor on paper scroll mounted on silk, signed and dated.
14.96 x 220.47 in.
Edgard George Papworth, an English sculptor and medallist, like most artists who travelled to Italy on the Grand Tour, is documented in Rome between 1834 and 1836. During the same
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Starting price: € 16.000
SCUOLA INGLESE DEL XIX SECOLO
Portrait of a gentleman
Oil on canvas.
36.42 x 28.35 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 500
FELIX KELLY 1916-1994
Manor House, Chipperfield Hertfordshire 1983
Oil on canvas applied on board, signed and dated lower right recto.
21.65 x 29.53 in.
Starting price: € 700 | Sold for : € 700
Group of five walking sticks
19th-20th Century
Wood, metals, silver, with zoomorphic knob.
Wear and defects.
Different measures.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 275
Group of ten walking sticks
19th-20th Century
Wood, metals, silver, with zoomorphic knob.
Wear and defects.
Different measures.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 250
CHARLES BARROW PRESCOTT 1870-1932
Portrait of a Lady 1913
Oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left recto.
56.30 x 44.09 in.
Starting price: € 850 | Sold for : € 850
Important silver tray
Paul Storr, London, 1817
Oval shaped, with four curled feet and cast, chiselled, engraved and openwork silver rim, decorated with scrolls of flowers and leaves and various animal species, the handles centered by shells.
6900 g
3.5 x 29.7 x 21.1 in.
Starting price: € 3.500 | Sold for : € 7.000
Small table
19th Century
Walnut, with three ebonised wooden columns and bronze applications, round, with double top.
24.8 x 25.6 x 25.6 in.
Starting price: € 250 | Sold for : € 400