THIS PAIR OF MASSIVE MID 19TH CENTURY ORMOLU MOUNTED SEVRES PORCELAIN VASES MADE 33,000
The James Adam Country House Collections sale at Townley Hall near Drogheda this week grossed over two million. The timed internet auction worked very well and grossed just over 50,000.
There were bidders from the US, Hong Kong, Germany, Holland, the UK and Ireland north and south.
Hammer prices for the top lots were as follows: George Barrets Mountainous Wooded River Landscape (200,000); a giltwood pier mirror by John and Francis Booker (50,000); a c1750 Irish armorial side table (40,000): Wooded landscape with figure by Solomon Delane (38,000); a pair of massive mid 19th century porcelain vases (33,000); a Ming revival blue and white moon flask, Yongzheng (32,000); an Irish Regency four pillar dining table (28,000); Games Still Life by Raoul Hynckes (26,000): George III giltwood overmantle mirror (25,000) and Portrait of a Lady by Sir Francis Grant (22,000).
(See posts on antiqueandartireland.com for October 8 and October 5, 2017)