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 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
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
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
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
Lot 65
Bottle vase
China, Qing dynasty, 19th century
Sturdy porcelain with red flambé glaze.
13.9 x 7.9 in.
Starting price: € 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
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
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
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
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