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 121
Rank badge
China, Qing dynasty, 19th century
Silk embroidered with polychrome threads, featuring a goose perched on a rock emerging from sea waves, its beak pointing to the sun, intended for a civil official.
For a series of similar rank badges in the Musée d'ethnographie de Genève, see Sous la griffe du Dragon.
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Starting price: € 200
Lot 122
Baluster vase
China, Qing dynasty, 19th century
Porcelain painted with polychrome enamels, the body with a scene with some figures on a veranda assisting to a sword fight between two deities on clouds, section towards the base, shoulder and neck with floral motifs reserved on a geometric ground.
17.7 x 7.9 in.
Starting price: € 500
Lot 123
Baluster vase
China, Qing dynasty, 19th century
Porcelain with polychrome enamel decoration, the body with a landscape scene crowded with soldiers and deities, some riding mythological animals, the areas towards the base, shoulder and neck with bands of geometric motifs and stylised leaves and flowers.
18.1 x 7.9 in.
Starting price: € 500
Lot 124
Erotic group
China, 20th century
Glazed and painted porcelain.
4.7 x 6.9 x 3.5 in.
Starting price: € 100
Lot 125
PAIR of small vases
China, 20th century
Fine porcelain painted with polychrome enamels with a decoration of a cat amidst flowers, rocks and an inscription with seals, apocryphal Qianlong mark to the centre of the base.
4.9 x 2.8 in.
Starting price: € 800
Lot 126
Small jar
China, 20th century
Fine porcelain painted with polychrome enamels with a decoration of two figures in a landscape, Hongxian nianzhi mark to the centre of the base.
3 x 3.1 in.
Starting price: € 300
Lot 127
Large collar, yunjian
China, XX secolo
Padded fabric and leather, elaborately decorated with hardstones, coral, bone, and embossed silver.
Small defects.
Yunjian is a Chinese term that could be translated as "cloud collar," primarily referring to women's clothing
Starting price: € 500
Lot 128
Belt buckle and hook
China, Qing dynasty
White jade with small rust inclusions, carved with a qulong dragons openwork motif.
1.2 x 4.3 x 1.8 in.
Starting price: € 200
Lot 129
Vase with cover
China, 20th century
Dark brown hard stone with red and ochre streaks, the body with a relief decoration of dragons, dragon-head-shaped handles with a movable ring along the sides, the lid surmounted by a Buddhist lion in the round, with ring handles and a
Starting price: € 800
Lot 130
Large baluster vase
China, 19th century
Porcelain painted with polychrome enamels with a decoration of figures in a landscape, on one side the three Fulushou deities with attendants, handles shaped as a pair of Buddhist lions facing each other.
23.6 x 9.1 in.
Starting price: € 1.800