Salvador Dali’s Le Cheval a la Montre Molle (Horse Saddled with Time) made 19,000 at hammer.
Salvador Dali’s Horse Saddled with Time was the top lot at the James Adam Sunday Interiors auction on June 22. The limited edtion piece (274/350) sold for a hammer price of 19,000. The original was first conceived and cast in 1980. It had been estimated at 11,000-15,000. A diamond single stone ring sold for a hammer of 4,500, an Irish George II style rectangular mural table made 4,200, a suite of Victorian Hanoverian pattern cutlery sold for 4,000, a 19th century Dublin fusee bracket clock from Ernest Bewley’s office made 3,800 and a set of 12 Victorian hoop back dining chairs sold for 3,200.
A total of 70 per cent of lots found buyers in a sale which realised 240,000.
(See post on antiquesandartireland.com for June 15, 2014).