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Irish Examiner
3 days ago
- Business
- Irish Examiner
Everything from dinosaurs to dining sets at two summer sales
Home or garden? The choice is yours at two appetising sales next week, the At Home online sale at James Adam in Dublin on Wednesday (June 11) and the two-day summer garden sale by Victor Mee in Cavan on the evenings of Tuesday and Wednesday. Top lots at Adam's range from Playing in the Sand (€4,000-€6,000), a lovely summer scene by Dorothea Sharp (1874-1955, through a Louis Quinze ormolu-mounted longcase clock (€3,000-€5,000), an Irish Regency oval beaded wall mirror (€3,000-€5,000) and a Milkmaid pattern Irish silver tea set (€2,500-€3,500). A wrought-iron glasshouse in Victorian style, complete with modern accoutrements like remote control glass and automated vents (€18,000-€22,000) leads the offerings at Victor Mee. A Regency oval beaded mirror at James Adam. Lifesize bronze sculptures of a horse and jockey and a galloping horse are estimated at €10,000-€20,000 each, while bronze-effect statues on pedestals of The Four Seasons, a bronze fountain with Mercury and a pair of 19th-century wrought-iron entrance gates are all estimated at €8,000-€12,000. One of the more unusual At Home lots, for use when away, is a complete set of early 20th-century 40 nautical signal flags. Originally drafted in 1855, the code is an international system of signals used by ships to convey important information on safety and navigation. The flags are in a fitted timber case with brass carrying handles and are estimated at €400-€600. With more than 500 lots, the last At Home sale before the summer features a diverse range of home objects, including a pair of brass-framed circular hall lanterns, an Edwardian club fender, and a pair of 19th-century Sitzendorf porcelain wall sconces. A bleached timber library table at James Adam. There are lots of chairs like sofas and Chesterfields, a set of eight Windsor-style oak and elmwood kitchen chairs, a pair of French 19th-century two-seater settees, a pair of red leather wingback armchairs, a George II walnut armchair, a pair of library armchairs, green leather button back chairs, a set of c1820s provincial Irish dining chairs along with Victorian and Edwardian dining chair sets. Among the artworks on offer are two botanical watercolours by Wendy Walsh and Cattle Watering by Thomas Sydney Cooper. A pair of giltwood and marble figural console tables, a bleached timber library table, Georgian and Regency dining tables, side tables and card tables feature along with collectables like silver, clock sets and a Baccarat three-light candelabra. At Victor Mee's sale, you will find exceptional urns and planters, a private collection of antique stone troughs and an obelisk gifted by the Chinese government to the Hely-Hutchinson family at Knocklofty House in Clonmel. The two-day sale features over 850 lots of garden statuary, furniture and architectural features. An obelisk gifted by the Chinese government at Victor Mee. There is a focus too on animal garden statuary with an emphasis on native Irish wildlife. This is an area of collection which the team at Victor Mee has noted is growing in popularity as animal sculptures are increasingly used to add character and whimsy to Irish gardens. Among the offerings are hares dancing, a lifesize bronze sheep, bronze pigs, a cast-iron red squirrel and a pair of boxing hares. A raptor for your garden at Victor Mee. More exotic creatures include a bronze elephant with a Dali-style decoration and a bronze velociraptor. As always, there is a good selection of antique and vintage outdoor furniture. Catalogues for both sales are online.
Irish Examiner
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Examiner
Paintings by old masters and contemporary artists in the frame
Art from Irish old masters to the contemporary will take centre stage at auctions by Morgan O'Driscoll, on Monday, Sheppard's, on Wednesday, and James Adam, on Thursday. The catalogue cover lot for the Irish Old Masters evening sale at Adam's is an arresting portrait of Jane Bryan of Cong by Maria Spilsbury (€8,000-€10,000). The London-born artist relocated to Ireland in 1813. Her work is represented in major institutional collections like the National Gallery of Ireland, the British Museum, Tate Britain and the Museum of Methodism in London. Spilsbury painted portraits, genre scenes and religious work. Her depiction Patron's Day at the Seven Churches, Glendalough, c1816, at the National Gallery is regarded as one of the most significant visual records of early 19th-century devotional life in Ireland. Maria Spilsbury's 'Portrait of Jane Bryan of Cong' at James Adam. The most expensively estimated painting in the sale is Figures by the Temple in the Park at Mount Merrion by William Ashford (€50,000-€80,000). The auction offers a choice of Irish landscapes by artists like James Arthur O'Connor, Thomas Roberts, George Mullins, William Sadler and George Barret. There are portraits by Hugh Douglas Hamilton, Nathaniel Hone, Robert Hunter and others, along with seascapes by Edwin Hayes, Richard Brydges Beechey and John Thomas Serres. The sale kicks off with six etchings and engravings by James Barry, offers a set of Malton's Views of Dublin and a preparatory scheme for the mythological murals at Lyons, Co Kildare, by Gaspare Gabrielli among 66 lots. 'Female Profile', Ya Tsai Chiu, at Morgan O'Driscoll. Two names from the east stand out in Morgan O'Driscoll's current online auction. Ya Tsai Chiu paints gracefully elongated figures that, though different, somehow recall Modigliani, while the sensitive female subjects of Zhao Kailin are endowed with a wistful, enigmatic quality. Both artists have wide appeal and thriving market records. The auction offers highly collectable works by Peter Curling, Donald Teskey, Michael Flatley, Evie Hone, Mr Brainwash, Dan O'Neill, Conor Fallon, Sean Scully and many other artists. A study The Grey Mare, Renvyle was painted in 1933 by Harry Kernoff. A le Brocquy tapestry titled Shimmering Light was woven by Donegal Carpets in 1956 and George Campbell's affectionate study of flamenco performers has all the elan of a man who could play the guitar as well as wield the brush. An Aubusson tapestry, Garlanded Goat, by le Brocquy, leads the Irish and International art auction at Sheppards with an estimate of €80,000-€120,000. Emer, a unique life-sized bronze horse by Anthony Scott, is a significant example of Irish contemporary bronze sculpture. Howard Helmick's 'Whiskey by the Hearth' at James Adam. Scott's sculpture, dedicated to the champion racehorse Sea the Stars, was unveiled at the National Stud by the late Queen Elizabeth during her State visit to Ireland. Sheppard's estimates this one at €30,000-€50,000. Among 166 lots is In Memory by Daniel O'Neill, which was last at auction at The Irish Sale at Christie's in 2007. It is now estimated at €20,000-€30,000. A rare work by William Crozier, Still Life with Jug and Shapes, painted in oil on a tin metal tray, is estimated at €2,000-€3,000. There is a similar estimate on a watercolour by Pauline Bewick, Taurus. Graham Knuttel's 'Still Life: Table Top' at Sheppard's. With art by Markey Robinson, Arthur Maderson, Evie Hone, Fr Jack Hanlon, Mark O'Neill, Henry Healy, Roderic O'Conor, Melanie le Brocquy, Michael Mulcahy, John Doherty, Michael Hales, Hughie O'Donoghue, John Luke and many more renowned Irish artists, this sale has much to hold the interest.
Irish Examiner
26-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Examiner
For auction: London portrait of Michael Collins in the frame
A full-length portrait of Michael Collins will create interest at Fonsie Mealy's rare book and collectors' sale in Castlecomer on Wednesday and Thursday (April 30, May 1). Collins, who has a moustache in this picture, is photographed standing on a balcony in London. A full-length portrait photograph of Michael Collins in London by Lafayette at Fonsie Mealy. More than 700 widely varied lots will come under the hammer here over two days. These range from rare sporting memorabilia like Kerry's first All-Ireland football championship winners medal from 1903 to a limited-edition illustrated volume of The Vatican Frescoes of Michelangelo and a scarce limited-edition copy of Squarings: Twelve Poems by Seamus Heaney, with four lithographic prints by Felim Egan. This work is signed by both the author and the artist. Lots and lots of all types of lots will come under the hammer in Ireland next week, with rare collectibles leading the charge. The mahogany and brass-mounted country house letterbox at James Adam. With everything from a mahogany and brass-mounted country house letter box that would not be out of place at Downton Abbey to a vintage alligator Gladstone bag, the annual library collection sale at James Adam in Dublin on Tuesday (April 29) offers a selection of 344 lots with something of interest to most of us. Vintage road signs are popular collectibles and feature at several sales. There is bound to be local interest in an old AA mileage sign for Blarney and Cork at Victor Mee's sale at Belturbet on Tuesday and Wednesday. AA road sign at Victor Mee. The online-only auction offers advertising materials and a mix of nostalgic items. Among them are enough Irish carnival and fairground pieces from Warrenpoint in Co Down and Buncrana in Co Donegal to keep any keen restorer busy for months. A 1970s vintage chrome and gilt Italian bar is not something you come across every day. This one, complete with tinted mirror front and stainless steel counter, is at the deVeres timed online design auction, which runs until Tuesday. A vintage Italian bar at deVeres. The auction offers a mix of classic design pieces by Eileen Gray, Arne Jacobsen, Gianfranco Frattini and Gianni Versace and art by John Shinnors, Albert Irvin, Cecil King, Tony O'Malley, Felim Egan and Mark Francis. There are all sorts of highlights at these sales. Franz Ludwig Hermann's The Dedication of the Temple of Solomon at James Adam is monumental and depicts a fantastical view of the temple. Sacrifices to mark the dedication are said to have included 22,000 bulls and 120,000 sheep. A painting by George Mounsey Wheatley Atkinson depicts a crowded harbour with paddle steamers. A child's carousel ride at Victor Mee will evoke many memories, along with several antique puppets and a 1970s tinplate fairground motorcycle. A prototype of the Liam MacCarthy Cup, by tradition, the sample that the trophy's maker, jeweller Edmund Johnston of Grafton Street in Dublin, presented to the Liam MacCarthy committee, is at Fonsie Mealy. In the event a variant was chosen. Choices here also include is a first (1955) edition of Moonraker, the third James Bond novel by Ian Fleming, and a painting of George Best in action by the British artist Tom Croft, approved by Best and originally intended to be made into a limited-edition print run, a plan that was abandoned when Best fell ill. Also for auction are five volumes of the Irish Georgian Society records of 18th-century domestic architecture in Dublin and an official Adidas Argentina team jersey signed by Diego Maradonna. Treasures abound everywhere.
