The country house auction at Hegarty’s in Bandon, Co. Cork on Bank Holiday Sunday May 1 will feature the contents of Kilcolman Rectory in Enniskeane. Furniture from this and other estates includes a rosewood and ivory inlaid collectors cabinet (3,000-6,000), a bow front satinwood drawing room chest by Maples (2,500-3,500), a Regency rosewood Irish library table (3,000-5,000) and a pair of kingwood ormolu mounted marble topped chests (2,500-3,500). There is an Irish Regency pier mirror which was once at the Imperial Hotel in Cork as well as Irish art, garden furniture and about 30 lots of jewellery. The catalogue is online. Here is a small selection:
One of a pair of gilt framed 19th century oils UPDATE: THESE SOLD FOR 2,300
A gilt console table. UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,650
A Kazakh rug: UPDATE; THIS WAS UNSOLD