Antique furniture and a Killarney wood jewellery box are feature items at Hegarty’s first sale of 2017 in Bandon on January 26 at 7 p.m. A c1850 Irish silver table with shell motif is at 6,000-10,000 the most expensively estimated lot in the auction. Among the other top lots are a Regency circular drum table (3,000-5,000), a 19th century gilt wood pier glass (2,000-3,000), a pair of William IV brass inlaid bookcases (2,000-3,000) and an early 19th century rosewood fold over card table (1,200-1,800).
The Killarney jewellery box is estimated at 1,500-2,000 and there is a similar estimate on a 19th century Irish gilt wood mirrors. There are two Cork silver bowls by Carden Terry and Daniel McCarthy estimated respectively at 3,000-4,000 and 2,000-3,000. The catalogue is online. Here is a small selection:
A c1850 Irish silver table with shell motif (6,000-10,000) UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 6,400
19th century Killarney jewellery (1,500-2,000) UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 1,650
Groundbreaking works by Mark Rothko and Robert Rauschenberg will feature at Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art evening auction on March 7 in London. Mark Rothko’s groundbreaking No. 1 1949 is one of the earliest examples of his mature artistic vocabulary. Robert Rauschenberg’s Transom (1963) comes to auction alongside a major retrospective of his work at London’s Tate Modern, and demonstrates the radical new visual language that went on to lead a generation of American artists towards global domination. Together these two masters of 20th-Century painting will lead the field of American talent due to take centre stage during 20th Century at Christie’s, a series of sales from
