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.
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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
Lot 76
Snuff bottle
China, 19th-20th century
Porcelain with polychrome enamel decoration in relief of figures, some openwork details, apocryphal Qianlong mark impressed to the centre of the base.
3.2 x 2 x 1.2 in.
Starting price: € 600
Lot 77
Small box with lid
China, early 20th century
Embossed silver, shaped as a gourd with relief floral decoration.
3.7 x 3.9 in.
Starting price: € 400
Lot 78
Brushwasher
China, 20th century
Porcelain, quadrilobate section, the outside of the wall with an arabesque in relief, the inside with a crab and leaves in accentuated relief, impressed apocryphal Guangxu mark to the center of the base.
1 x 3.7 x 2.2 in.
Starting price: € 300
Lot 79
Two baluster vases
China, early 20th century
Ivory finely carved with open-work stylized motifs.
The lot has CITES certification.
8.1 x 2.4 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400
Lot 80
Saddle rug
Tibet, early 20th century
Polychrome wool, the center with two dragons within a geometric frame, outer border with Buddhist symbols.
55.1 x 23.2 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 650
Lot 81
Folding screen
China , 20 th century
Six panels, lacquered and painted wood, the front with a composition with female figures in a landscape with pavilions, rocks and trees, the back with flowers and auspicious objects.
72.2 x 95.9 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 2.600
Lot 82
Pair of pillar carpets
China, Ningxia, 20th century
Orange ground and polychrome decoration of dragons flying amidst clouds and darts in pursuit of the pearl, mountain peaks on sea waves.
This type of rug was intended to be hung on the pillars of a Buddhist temple or monastery.
The dragon motif is the most common, and,
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Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 1.700
Lot 83
Panel
China, early 20th Century
Carved, painted, and gilded wood, wavy shape, openwork decoration, figures in a landscape on the left, a composition with flowers and objects on the right, the two scenes enclosed by a geometric relief border, a Buddhist lion at top right.
Defects.
12.8 x 19.7 x
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Starting price: € 200
Lot 84
Console
China, 20th century
Carved wood, trapezoidal section, the lower section with 'cracked ice' geometric motif.
32.3 x 41.7 x 17.9 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 125
Lot 85
Pair of elephants
China, Qing dynasty, late 18th-early 19th Century
Polychrome cloisonné and champlevé enameled metal with extensive gilding, the two animals adorned with floral motifs and the character shou (long life), a vase with a lid and ribbon handles on the back of the two animals.
The elephant symbolizes strength and wisdom,
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Starting price: € 4.000
Lot 86
Guanyin
China, Ming dynasty, 16th-17th Century
Bronze with traces of gilding and lacquering, the deity seated on a double lotus flower base, jewels on the chest and an exuberant headdress, antique inscription in Chinese and an inventory label inside.
8.5 x 4.3 x 3.1 in.
Starting price: € 900
Lot 87
Ananda
China, Ming dynasty, 16th-17th century
Lacquered bronze, the Buddha's disciple depicted standing with his hands clasped on his chest.
6.9 x 2.6 x 2.6 in.
Starting price: € 800
Lot 88
Vase, hu
China, 17th-18th Century
Bronze, animal head handles with movable ring, relief decoration of horizontal bands with archaic motifs.
14.2 x 8.7 in.
Starting price: € 700
Lot 89
Guanyin
China, Ming dynasty, 16th-17th Century
Bronze, the deity seated on a double lotus flower base with legs crossed in lalitasana, dressed in a large robe that leaves the chest exposed with elaborate jewelry, in each hand a flowering stem, near the shoulder on one side a bird, on the other an ewer, the head
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Starting price: € 3.000
Lot 90
Tripod incense burner with lid
China, Qing dynasty, 18th century
Bronze, the vessel supported by three feet in the shape of elephants' heads, the body with floral arabesques in relief and handles in the shape of an elephant's head with an upwardly curved trunk, the lid
Starting price: € 1.200 | Sold for : € 7.000
Lot 91
Carving
China, 20th century
Pink coral, carved with two female figures and bird, wooden base.
6.1 x 7.3 x 1.4 in.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Sold for : € 1.100
Lot 92
Carving
China, 20th century
Pink coral, carved with two female figures, glued to a crystal support.
7.5 x 5.5 x 2 in.
Starting price: € 800
Lot 93
Pindola lohan
China, 20th century
Stone of creamy tone, the seated deity holding a rosary in her left hand, her right resting on the back of the tamed tiger, a bowl on the ground from which fumigations flow, incised signature on the bottom, wooden base.
3.9 x 4.1 x 3.1 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 175
Lot 94
Tablet, Hu
China, probably Ming dynasty
Ivory.
The lot has CITES certificate.
18.9 x 2 in.
This type of artifact was used exclusively in an imperial context: officials visiting the court were given it before being in the presence of the sovereign so as to protect him from airborne contamination by others.
Starting price: € 500 | Sold for : € 500
Lot 95
Two small table screens
China, 20th century
One with a wooden structure and a porcelain plaque painted with polychrome enamels with a landscape with figures, the back covered in paper with an inscription, the other with a wooden structure and a stone plaque, one side with two polychrome figures, the other with an
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Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 550
Lot 96
Pillar carpet
China, Ningxia, 20th century
Blue ground with polychrome decoration of dragon, sacred objects, festoons and inscriptions.
This type of rug was intended to be hung on the pillars of a Buddhist temple or monastery.
The dragon motif is the most common, and, as in this example, these fabrics have no
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Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 300
Lot 97
Carpet
China , 20th century
Ochre ground and polychrome decoration of rock and bamboo.
59.1 x 31.5 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Sold for : € 100
Lot 98
WANG YOUZHENG 1941
Old man and child late 20th century
Ink and colours on paper, on the righ a long inscription with seals, framed.
Measures incliding the frame.
38.98 x 38.19 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Sold for : € 400
Lot 99
Bottle vase
China, Qing dynasty, 19th century
'Blue and white' porcelain, a striking decoration of dragons flying amidst clouds and darts, sea waves at the bottom, apocryphal Kangxi mark to the centre of the base.
8.9 x 3.9 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Sold for : € 800
Lot 100
Bottle vase
China, 20th century
Flambé glazed porcelain in shades of dark red and blue.
13 x 8.7 x 8.7 in.
Starting price: € 500