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White plaster portrait bust of Charles Stewart Parnell
A plaster portrait bust of Charles Stewart Parnell is the leading lot at the sale by South Dublin Auctions on August 9. Created by artist Mary Grant in 1892 it is likely that this is a cast after the one in the National Portrait Gallery in London. The estimate is €3,000-€6,000. Among 1380 lots on offer are contents from a Limerick antique shop, a London penthouse, jewellery and small collectible pieces.
David Ffrench Le Roy – STILL LIFE CHEESE WINE & GRAPES
This oil on board by David Ffrench le Roy is at an online auction of Irish paintings by Adams Blackrock which runs until August 12. Lot 33 is estimated at €500-€600 in a sale of 421 lots. Online sales of jewellery and watches and of antiques and furniture are running concurrently at Adams Blackrock. The furniture sale includes this canteen of assorted silver flatware, with an estimate of €1,000-€1,200. All catalogues are online.
CANTEEN OF ASSORTED SILVER FLATWARE
This Italian sandstone model of three cherubs at play following a classical design heads up Fonsie Mealy’s sale of garden furniture and outdoor effects in Castlecomer on August 12. The estimate is €1,500-€2,000. There are 192 lots on offer with estimates from €40 to €2,000. Among them are statues, urns, garden seats and tables, a horse trough, a 19th century pony trap, mill wheels, bird baths and advertising signs. The catalogue is online.
Nude by the Sea is the title of this arresting 1941 oil on canvas by Ireland’s pioneering abstract and modernist artist Mainie Jellett (1897-1944). With its intensity and flowing background it must have seemed beyond futuristic to most Irish viewers in 1941. It was shown at the Jellett exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art from December 1991 to March 1992 and at a retrospective of the artist at the Municipal Gallery in Dublin in 1962. The painting was catalogued for that show as Composition with Figure. Nude by the Sea is among a selection of works already consigned to Whyte’s next sale of Important Irish Art, which is to take place on September 28. Not surprisingly Whyte’s anticipate significant interest in this bright and highly polished work by an important figure in Irish art history.
This George III side table made €1,200 at hammer at Adams.
At a time when stylish but everyday antique furniture has been all but ignored by the market it was cheering to see a number of pieces making above estimate prices at Adam’s warehouse auction in Dublin last week. The top lot in the sale, a Georgian semi-elliptical side table with an inlaid top and compartmental frieze, made €1,200 at hammer over a high estimate of €800.
Then an Edwardian mahogany wardrobe with twin astragal glazed doors made €1,200 at hammer over a top estimate of €700.
An Edwardian mahogany Carlton House desk made a hammer price of €800, at the top of the estimate. An Edwardian brass framed four glass ceiling lantern made €550 over a top estimate of €400. While these are bargain prices when compared to what the same pieces might have made decades ago things are different now. It might be over optimistic to view such results as a straw in the wind but they are nonetheless encouraging.
Adams will conduct valuations on jewellery, watches, Irish art and fine and decorative art in Cork by appointment only on Tuesday August 4, in Belfast on August 5 and in Dublin on August 6.
An Edwardian wardrobe with astragal glazed doors made €1,200 at hammer at Adams.
A c1750 Irish silver coffee pot UPDATE: THIS MADE 3,000 AT HAMMER
Irish silver, furniture by renowned Dublin maker Robert Strahan and a white gold diamond flower head cluster ring are among the offerings at Hegarty’s online auction in Bandon on August 5.
The faded and now indecipherable maker’s mark on an ornate c1745 Dublin made Irish silver cream jug with a shaped rim and C scroll handle offers a timely lesson. It is important to preserve hallmarks by keeping a thumb upon them when polishing and shining the silver. The cream jug is estimated at €600-€800.
An elegant George II silver coffee pot made by William Townsend in Dublin c1750 is estimated at €3,500-€4,500. The baluster form pot has an ebonised handle, a domed hinged cover with finial, an acanthus leaf mounted on the spout and a circular spreading foot.
An 18 carat white gold diamond flower head cluster ring features a central round cut diamond surrounded by eight diamonds in a raised setting. The total diamond weight amounts to 1.8 carats and the estimate is €2,500-€3,500.
Lot 128 is a two door side table by Robert Strahan. Just 20 inches deep it would fit in most modern homes. There is a raised gallery back and a carved border, with fleur de lys carving on the two doors. The estimate is a mere €400-€800. The catalogue for the auction is online.
A diamond flower head cluster ring UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD
Johnny Marr’s Rickenbacker 330 Jetglo 1982. Courtesy Christie’s Images Ltd.
Johnny Marr, regarded as the guitar genius of a generation, co-founded the groundbreaking 1980’s band The Smiths at the age of 18 in 1982. Since then the Manchester born Irish musician originally named Maher has been a member of The Pretenders, The The, Electronic, The Healers, Modest House and The Cribs. He has collaborated with a roll call of greats across indie, rock, pop and film including The Pet Shop Boys, Talking Heads, Bryan Ferry, Beck, Hans Zimmer, Oasis, Pearl Jam, Noel Gallagher, Billie Eilish, Blondie, Gorillaz and Franz Ferdinand.
Around 80 guitars along with amps and equipment integral to his extraordinarily wide ranging career will come under the hammer at Marr’s Guitars: The Johnny Marr Collection at Christie’s in London on September 17. A 1960 Cherry Red Gibson ES-355 will lead the sale (£100,000-£150,000) (€117,000-€175,600). His 1982 Rickenbacker 330 Jetglo, for many the guitar most strongly associated with his melodic Smiths era sound, is estimated at £60,000-£80,000 (€70,250-€93,660). Estimates in this auction of 95 lots range from £1,000 tp £150,000 (€1,170-€175,600). Johnny Marr will donate 100% of the sale of ten lots to benefit the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association and The National Autistic Society. In June Marr released “Spin” as the lead single for his album The Age of Everything due to be released in October.
Johnny Marr’s 1960 Cherry Red Gibson ES-355. Courtesy Christie’s Images Ltd.
