Cork Republican Silver strawberry dish. (click on image to enlarge)
The rare Cork Republican Silver strawberry dish which was one of the highlights at Woodwards silver sale on April 6 is to be presented on long loan to Cork Public Museum.
Estimated at 15,000-20,000 the dish was bid up to 9,500 at the sale at which point it was withdrawn. It remained under active negotiation and was subsequently sold to a private bidder for 12,000. This bidder intends to present the extremely rare item of Cork silverware dating to the most turbulent period of the Irish Civil War to the museum, which is located in Fitzgerald’s Park near the city centre. With fluted sides the ten ounce dish is eight and a quarter inches in diameter.
See antiquesandartireland.com post for February 24.