ASIAN ART
AUCTION
Monday 15 December 2025,
from 10.00 a.m. (lots 1-213) and from 2.30 p.m. (lots 214-563)
Spazio Bolaffi Torino, corso Verona 34/D
VIEWING
From Wednesday 10 to Monday 15 December, Sunday included.
From 10.00 a.m to 6.00 p.m.
Spazio Bolaffi Torino, corso Verona 34/D
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Lot 51
Three hairpins
China, Qing dynasty, 19th century
Two in white jade, one in white-green jadeite, the upper part of all with a floral carving.
5.9 x 0.6 in.
Starting price: € 150 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 52
Belt buckle and hook
China, Qing dynasty
Carved and incised very pale green jade, decorated with qilong dragons and lingzhi mushrooms.
1 x 4.3 x 1.8 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 3.000
Lot 53
TWO PENDANTS
China, Qing dynasty, 19th century
Green and white jadeite, both finely carved with leafy branch with peaches.
2.4 x 1.8 in. the largest
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 175
Lot 54
Pendant
China, 20th century
Jade, relief decoration, one side with deer, crane and tree, the other with inscription.
2.2 x 1.5 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 100
Lot 55
Vase
China, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period
Porcelain painted in underglaze cobalt blue and polychrome enamels of the 'Famille Verte', yenyen shape, decorated on one side with flowering plum branches and on the other with flowering magnolia branches, the base of the branches with rocks, herbs, other small flowers
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Starting price: € 1.500 | Sold for : € 2.600
Lot 56
Pair of vases
China, 20th century
Porcelain painted with polychrome enamels, the neck with floral meanders, the body with a decoration of horses in the landscape with inscription and seals, mark to the center of the base of both, wooden bases.
13 x 7.1 in.
Starting price: € 800
Lot 57
Two fabrics
China, 20th century
Silk, blue ground and ochre decoration of dragons flying amidst clouds and waves, wooden frame and protective glass.
Measures include frame.
16.5 x 18.9 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 425
Lot 58
Shoulao
China, early 20th Century
Carved, incised and inked ivory, the deity standing on a glued wooden base, the right hand holding a stick, the left hand a peach symbolizing longevity.
11.4 x 3.5 x 3 in.
The lot has CITES certificate.
Starting price: € 300
Lot 59
Large dish
China, 18th Century
Lacquered wood with traces of gilding, decoration of dragons on the rim within cartouches reserved on a geometric ground.
Wear, defects.
Diameter 19.7 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 100
Lot 60
PAIR OF SMALL LOTUS SHOES
China, early 20th century
Silk, pink ground with floral decoration embroidered with polychrome threads.
3.1 x 1.6 x 3.3 in.
Starting price: € 100
Lot 61
Two small dishes
China, Qing dynasty, late 18th century
'Blue and white' porcelain, decorated with landscapes.
Hairlines.
1.4 x 5.1 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 100
Lot 62
LARGE INCENSE BURNER
China, Ming dynasty, 16th-17th century
Bronze, modeled as a Buddhist lion, sitting on its hind legs, the left front paw resting on the Ball enriched with laces, some rattles around the neck, the head movable, the open mouth gives an expression of divine dignity.
Sculptures of lions of this kind, paired with
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Starting price: € 3.000 | Sold for : € 6.750
Lot 63
Pair of bottle vases
China, Qing dynasty, 19th Century
Porcelain painted with 'Famille Verte' polychrome enamels, the globular body with phoenixes flying amidst peony flowers, paired leaves to the shoulder, the neck with two polylobed cartouches with chrysanthemums reserved on a geometric ground.
Minor restorations.
18
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Starting price: € 2.000 | Sold for : € 2.000
Lot 64
Bottle vase
China, early 20th century
Porcelain painted with polychrome enamels, the object consisting of a bowl on which a bottle-shaped vase with semicircular handles is glued, decorated with an exuberant 'millefleurs' decoration.
10.2 x 5.9 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400
Lot 65
Bottle vase
China, Qing dynasty, 19th century
Sturdy porcelain with red flambé glaze.
13.9 x 7.9 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 66
Bottle vase
China, Qing dynasty, 18th century
Porcelain with celadon glaze and widespread craquelure, stylised animal handles with gilded bronze garlands of late 18th century European manufacture, as the bronze base.
Small restorations.
7.9 x 3.5 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 275
Lot 67
Per of dishes
China, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period, early 18th century
Porcelain painted with 'Imari' enamels, floral decoration.
One with chips.
2 x 15.4 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 68
Tripod censer
China, Ming dynasty, 14th-15th century
Longquan ceramic with celadon glaze, the vessel standing on three feet shaped like mythological animal heads, the body with Eight Trigrams in relief amidst incised floral arabesques, the outside of the rim with small corollas in relief, the interior with incised
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Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 2.800
Lot 69
Garden seat
China, Ming dynasty
Longquan ceramic with celadon glaze, barrel-shaped, four openwork panels with flowers and racemes reserved on a ground of floral and geometric motifs, the upper side with a floral decoration in relief, two horizontal bands of small relief corollas.
The shape of this
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Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 6.000
Lot 70
Lu Dongbin
China, Ming dynasty, 16th-17th century
Bronze, the standing sage wearing a loose robe, his right arm slightly bent at the elbow.
A statuette very similar to this one, used on an altar or in a funerary context, is in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London (R. Kerr, Later Chinese Bronzes, London 1990. pp.
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Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 500
Lot 71
Lu Dongbin
China, Ming dynasty, 16th-17th century
Bronze, the standing taoist immortal wearing a loose robe, his arm bent at the elbow and pointing upward, glued to the wooden base.
Measures include the base.
8.5 x 3.1 in.
Starting price: € 700 | Sold for : € 800
Lot 72
Dignitary
China, Ming dynasty, 16th-17th Century
Bronze with traces of gilding, the figure seated on a bench in turn supported by a base with shaped feet, wearing a loose robe with incised floral decoration, the right arm bent with the hand at chest height.
8.7 x 4.7 x 3.5 in.
Starting price: € 1.600
Lot 73
Wenchang
China, Ming dynasty, 16th-17th century
Bronze, the Taoist deity seated on a chair, his right arm bent at the elbow and raised upwards.
9.3 x 58.3 x 5.9 in.
Starting price: € 1.400
Lot 74
Xiwangmu
China, Ming dynasty, 16th-17th century
Gilded bronze, the seated Taoist deity wearing a wide robe with flowing drapery, his hands on his chest holding the hu tablet, his head with a headdress decorated with birds.
15.7 x 9.1 x 4.3 in.
Starting price: € 5.000
Lot 75
Vase
China, early 20th century
Porcelain, the external surface worked in imitation of bronze in relief with floral arabesques and elephant head handles, the body with two reserves painted in cobalt blue, one with a landscape and the other with a composition of bird and bamboo, incised apocryphal
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Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 225