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    FINE CHINESE CERAMICS FROM ALFRED BEIT FOUNDATION AT SOTHEBY’S

    Monday, October 21st, 2013
    Fine Chinese ceramics from the Alfred Beit Foundation come up at Sotheby’s in London on November 6.  The 20 ceramic pieces to be sold in 14 lots estimated at £300,000-350,000 are being sold to help secure the long term future of Russborough.  The group being sold is surplus to the main collection and has been in storage for many years.
    They were assembled by Sir Alfred Beit (1903-1994) and purchased through Chinese art dealer John Sparks in the 1950’s.
    Robin Bradlow of Sotheby’s fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art department said: “Sir Alfred Beit was a discerning collector with a marvellous eye for exquisite pieces of Chinese porcelain”.
    Commenting on the sale, a representative of the Alfred Beit Foundation, said: “The group of ceramics is surplus to the main collection, has been held in storage for many years and was rarely on public view. Its sale will help secure the long term future of Russborough, its demesne and its diverse collections so that the visiting public from both Ireland and abroad may appreciate and enjoy it for many decades to come.”
    UPDATE:  The 14 lots from the Beit Foundation were 100 per cent sold and brought in £1,079,ooo.  The Yongzheng black ground Famille Rose bowl achieved the highest price in the group and sold for £434,500.  Overall the sale brought a total of £14,486,600.
    A Rare Coral Ground Famille-Verte Bowl Yongzheng mark and period (1723-1735) (£80,000-120,000).

    A Rare Coral Ground Famille-Verte Bowl
    Yongzheng mark and period (1723-1735) (£80,000-120,000). UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £104,500

    A Black-Ground Famille-Rose Bowl Yongzheng Mark and Period (1723-1735) (£80,000-120,000).

    A Black-Ground Famille-Rose Bowl
    Yongzheng Mark and Period (1723-1735) (£80,000-120,000). UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £434,500

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    ANTIQUE AND MODERN JEWELLERY AT O’REILLY’S FRANCIS ST. AUCTION

    Friday, October 18th, 2013

    Around 400 lots of antique, modern and vintage jewellery will come under the hammer at O’Reilly’s of Francis St., Dublin on October 23. The sale will include jewellery by Chopard and Dior.  The catalogue is online. Here is a small selection:  UPDATE; The multi-stone ring made 3,000 and the coral and diamond dress ring made 1,900.

    An emerald cut diamond solitaire (30,000-32,000)

    An emerald cut diamond solitaire (30,000-32,000)  UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    A pair of antique gold cameo earrings (500-700)

    A pair of antique gold cameo earrings (500-700)

    A coral and diamond dress ring by Dior (2,000-2,500)

    A coral and diamond dress ring by Dior (2,000-2,500)

    A large multi stone ring (3,000-3,500).

    A large multi stone ring (3,000-3,500).

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    HIGHLIGHT OF IRISH 18TH CENTURY PAINTING AT SLANE AUCTION IS SOLD

    Thursday, October 17th, 2013
    View of Dawson’s Grove, Co. Monaghan by William Ashford, painted about 1774. is estimated at 70,000-100,000.

    View of Dawson’s Grove, Co. Monaghan by William Ashford, (1746-1824) painted about 1774.

    THE highlight of Irish 18th century paintings at the James Adam auction at Slane Castle was William Ashford’s View of Dawson’s Grove, Co. Monaghan painted in 1774.  The painting, which was estimated at 70,000-100,000 failed to find a buyer at the auction. Interest remained strong afterwards.  The large and rare oil on canvas, which depicts the brick house built c1770 and seat of Thomas Dawson MP, has since been sold to an Irish collector for a hammer price of 60,000. Dawson was created Baron Dartrey (1770), Viscount Cremorne (1785) and later Baron Cremorne (1797).

    The work is typical of the Claudean style topographical views of estates or demesne paintings produced by Irish landscape painters of the eighteenth century.  In 1823, the year before he died, William Ashford was elected first President of the Royal Hibernian Academy.

    Destroyed by fire, Dawson Grove was replaced in 1846 by Dartrey, an Elizabethan Revival mansion which was demolished  around 1950.

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    A STUNNING ORANGE ROTHKO AT CHRISTIE’S, NEW YORK

    Thursday, October 17th, 2013
    Mark Rothko (1903-1970) Untitled (No. 11) Painted in 1957. Courtesy Christie's Images Ltd., 2013

    Mark Rothko (1903-1970)
    Untitled (No. 11) Painted in 1957. Courtesy Christie’s Images Ltd., 2013  UPDATE: SOLD FOR $46,085,000

    A stunning orange Rothko comes up at Christie’s Post War and Contemporary Art evening auction in New York on November 12. Untitled (No. 11) from 1957 has featured in museum retrospectives including  the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, the Neue National-Galerie in Dusseldorf and The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.

    It is estimated at $25-35 million. This is probably highly conservative.  There was an identical estimate on Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow from the Pincus Collection, which sold for a record $86.8 million at Christie’s New York in May 2012.

    Brett Gorvy, Chairman and International Head of Post-War & Contemporary Art at Christie’s said: “The demand for masterworks by Rothko is probably the most international amongst all the artists we sell, with strong bidding consistently from the Americas, Europe, Asia, Russia and the Middle-East. Untitled (No. 11) is remarkable for its incredible beauty, intensity of color and inner light – the very hallmarks of Rothko’s prime period. The monumental scale allows viewers to be completely enveloped by the colors and its sensations.”

    UPDATE:  THIS SOLD FOR $46,085,000

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    LOST DRAWING BY CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH AT SOTHEBY’S

    Thursday, October 17th, 2013
    Caspar David Friedrich Blick auf Arkona, Rügen (View towards Arkona, Rügen)

    Caspar David Friedrich Blick auf Arkona, Rügen (View towards Arkona, Rügen)

    Blick auf Arkona, Rügen (View towards Arkona, Rügen), a lost drawing by German artist Caspar David Friedrich known only from an archive photograph, has resurfaced on the international market.  Sotheby’s will present the drawing as a highlight of a sale of 19th century European paintings in London on November 20.  It is estimated at £200,000-300,000.

    Tessa Kostrzewa, director, Sotheby’s 19th century European Paintings department, said: “It is always tremendously exciting to handle works by Friedrich, the father of German Romantic painting, especially when one is dealing with a rediscovered work believed to have been lost. The composition, and its symbolism, was clearly very meaningful to the young Friedrich, as he repeated it several times. The isle of Rügen had a hold on his imagination, becoming the subject of one of his most famous paintings of all, of strollers overlooking the sea from the island’s chalk cliffs.”

    Friedrich worked up seven drawings of varying size and detail from an ink sketch he made on the beach at Vitt on the island of Rügen on Germany’s Baltic coast on 22 June 1801. This drawing in the series was produced circa 1803 and depicts a view looking north towards Kap Arkona, the island’s north cape.

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    FINE AND DECORATIVE ART ON OFFER IN CASTLECOMER

    Wednesday, October 16th, 2013

    The catalogue for the autumn fine and decorative art sale at Mealy’s in Castlecomer on October 22 and 23 lists more than 1100 lots with a pre-sale estimate of 300,000-500,000. Oriental art, decorative art, clocks, barometers, scientific instruments, silver, jewellery, light fittings and glass will feature on October 22.  On Wednesday it is the turn of 18th, 19th and 20th century furniture, paintings, watercolours, carpets, rare books and maps.  The catalogue is online. Here is a small selection (click on any image to enlarge it).

    LATE 19TH CENTURY ITALIAN CARVED WHITE MARBLE FIGURE, (1,500-2,500).

    LATE 19TH CENTURY ITALIAN CARVED WHITE MARBLE FIGURE, (1,500-2,500). UPDATE: THIS MADE 3,300

    Some of the lots due to come under the hammer.

    Some of the lots due to come under the hammer.

    LOUIS B. HURT (1856-1929) Highland Cattle resting near a Loch (4,000-6,000).

    LOUIS B. HURT (1856-1929) Highland Cattle resting near a Loch (4,000-6,000).  UPDATE: THIS MADE 4,000

    A pair of 19th century Roman micromosaic circular panels (5,000-7,000).

    A pair of 19th century Roman micromosaic circular panels (5,000-7,000).   UPDATE: THESE MADE 6,900

    A total of 106 volumes, Thom's Irish Directory, late 19th century-mid 20th century (1,500-2,500).

    A total of 106 volumes, Thom’s Irish Directory, late 19th century-mid 20th century (1,500-2,500).  UPDATE: SOLD FOR 1,200

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    IRISH GILTWOOD PIER TABLE SELLS FOR 90,000

    Tuesday, October 15th, 2013
    This George II carved Irish pier table made 90,000 at Adams.

    This George II carved Irish pier table made 90,000 at Adams.

    This c1740 George II Irish carved giltwood and gesso rectangular pier table sold for a hammer price of 90,000 at the James Adam Country House Collections auction at Slane Castle on Monday.  This one has a later breccia marble top above a frieze with tongue and dart border, ribbon tied knots and a lion mask.

    An illustration of one of a pair of very similar tables, also c1740, is contained in Glin and Piell’s Irish Furniture published by Yale University Press. That pair, which is slightly smaller than this table, was supplied to Malahide Castle.
    The only recorded Irish view by Joseph Mallord William Turner - Clontarf Castle in Co. Dublin - is estimated at 20,000-40,000.

    Turner’s Clontarf Castle

     

    The only recorded Irish view by Joseph Mallord William Turner – Clontarf Castle in Co. Dublin – made a hammer price of 65,000 over an estimate of 20,000-40,000.

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    A HIGHLIGHT BY PAUL HENRY AT BONHAMS IN NOVEMBER

    Tuesday, October 15th, 2013
    Paul Henry R.H.A. (1876-1958) - The Currach (click on image to enlarge).

    Paul Henry R.H.A. (1876-1958) – The Currach (click on image to enlarge).  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £158,500

    The Currach by Paul Henry is to be a highlight at Bonhams sale of Modern British and Irish Art in London on November 20.  Dating to 1913-14 it comes to market from a private Irish collection. It has not been sold for 60 years and it is now estimated at £100,000-150,000.

    Penny Day, Head of Irish Art at Bonhams, comments: “What’s exciting about ‘The Curragh’ is that it presents a rare and charged seascape by an artist who’s better known for his calm, rural landscapes. The scene is rendered with spontaneous strokes that show Henry at his best and compel the viewer to urge the men forward”.  It was painted on Achill Island where Henry spent a decade from 1910.
    It was exhibited in Belfast at the Art Gallery of the Belfast Industrial Development Association in 1914 and Magee’s Gallery in 1919; in Dublin at Mill’s Hall in 1919, the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1943, and the National Gallery of Ireland in 2003; and in Shannon at Shannon Free Airport in 1957.
    UPDATE: IT SOLD FOR £158,500.

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    SIDE CABINETS SELL FOR 21,000 AT SLANE CASTLE

    Monday, October 14th, 2013
    One of a pair of boulle and ormolu side cabinets sold for 21,000.

    One of a pair of boulle and ormolu side cabinets sold for 21,000.

    A pair of Napoleon III boulle and ormolu side cabinets more than doubled their top estimate on day one of the James Adam Country House Collections auction at Slane Castle on October 13.  Estimated at 6,000-10,000 the pair sold for a hammer price of 21,000.

    An Irish Georgian brass hall door lock sold for 2,000; a 19th century white marble bust of Julius Caesar by John MacDonald made 4,000; a pair of Victorian billiard room benches made 5,000; a c1660 pair of English oak joint stools made 2,500; a mid 19th century percussion action five shot revolver made 10,000; an Irish 18th century double action flintlock fowling piece made 9,500; an 18th century Irish blanket chest made 4.000;  a French ormolu and marble figural cercle clock surmounted by a Cupid and signed Dubuisson made 8,000; an Irish satinwood foldover card table made 5,000; a longcase clock by William Haddock of Waterford made 3,000; a George II London walnut cased bracket clock made 4,000; a Victorian hexagonal red lacquered post box made 5,500; a George III breakfront wardrobe in the style of Gillows made 11,000; an oil on canvas of a standing nude by Emmanual Michel Benner (1873-1965) made 11,000 and a George III Gainsborough armchair made 7,200. (These are all hammer prices).

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    LIMERICK SOVIET NOTE TO COME UNDER THE HAMMER

    Monday, October 14th, 2013
    The Limerick Soviet ten shilling note.

    The Limerick Soviet ten shilling note.  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 700

    A rare Limerick Soviet ten shilling note comes up at Limerick Auction Rooms on October 23.  The Limerick Soviet ran the city, printed its own money and organised a food supply in 1919.  It ran from April 15-27 in that year and attracted attention around the world. At the beginning of the War of Independence a general strike was called by the Limerick Trades and Labour Council to protest the British Army designation of Limerick city and parts of the county as a special military area.

    Dan Breen in Limerick Prison with the Freestate Officer who used to be his driver.

    Dan Breen in Limerick Prison with the Freestate Officer who used to be his driver.  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 65 EURO

    Estimated at 1,000-1,500 the ten shilling note is inscribed: “April Limerick 1919.  General Strike Against British Militarism.  The workers of Limerick promise to pay the bearer ten shilllings.  The Limerick Trades and Labour Council.  The note is signed by George Cronin, Chairman and James Casey, Treasurer.

    Another unusual lot  is a photograph of the Republican Dan Breen in Limerick Prison arm in arm with the Freestate Office from the other side who had been his driver during the War of Independence.  The photograph, which is dog eared, is estimated at 50-100 euro.
     

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