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18TH-CENTURY MAHOGANY CONSOLE TABLE. UPDATE: THIS MADE €1,300 AT HAMMER
This 18th century console table with gadrooned rectangular top comes up at Sheppards Gems in the Attic sale on February 4. The estimate is €1,500-€2,500. The auction is on view in Durrow from February 1. There are 667 lots in total and the catalogue is online.
Peter Collis (1929-2012) – Still Life with Fruit and Flowers. UPDATE: THIS MADE 5,200 AT HAMMER
This still life by Peter Collis is from Morgan O’Driscoll’s current online auction of Irish art. The oil on canvas is estimated at €3,000-€5,000. The sale runs until the evening of January 27 and offers a wide selection of 255 lots including Irish artists like Donald Teskey and Mainie Jellett and international artists like Jeff Koons and Andy Warhol. The catalogue is online and there will be viewing in Skibbereen on January 23, 24 and 27.
BOG OAK BUFFET. UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,700 AT HAMMER
This large highly carved bog oak buffet, originally at Gibstown Castle near Navan, is lot 1237 at a three day online sale in Slane by Milltown Country Auction Rooms on January 27, 28 and 29. The auction of more than 1300 lots will include the contents of Clonkeehan Stud at Slane. The cabinet is estimated at €5,000-6,000.
SET OF 12 GEORGIAN SILVER DINNER PLATES, LONDON 1821
This set of twelve Georgian silver dinner plates are a feature lot at Hegarty’s online sale in Bandon on January 22. The set is London hallmarked, with a date letter of ‘f’ for 1821 and maker’s mark of WF for William Fountain. Each plate has a scalloped rim decorated with a gadrooned trim and engraved with a winged dragon type animal to the inside edge. The estimate is €8,000-12,000.
Sine MacKinnon (1902-1996) – Surreal Landscape. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD
This pastel and crayon by Sine McKinnon is lot 9 at the timed online James Adam picture auction which runs until January 22. The estimate is 300-500. There is art by Cecil King, Richard Gorman, Jane O’Malley, Markey Robinson, Patrick Scott, Catherine Delaney, William Conor, Anne Madden, Elizabeth Rivers and many more artists on offer.
A day at the Races, 1885 style. UPDATE: THIS MADE 170 AT HAMMER
Dunville’s Whiskey, Capstan cigarettes, Fry’s Chocolate, Guinness toucans and Mick McQuaid plug tobacco advertisements are among the nostalgia generating lots on offer at Victor Mee’s Collector’s Collection sale online sale on January 28 and 29 at 6 pm on each day. More than 1,400 lots from an Ireland that is all but gone but still intensely familiar will come under the hammer. Sales of memorabilia, even those from beyond living memory like an 1885 Great Northern Railway advertisement for a special train to Baldoyle Races, remain enduringly popular. UPDATE: DATE CHANGED TO FEBRUARY 4 AND 5.
Aidan Foley will offer this Bentley at Ashford auction. UPDATE: THIS MADE 26,000 AT HAMMER
Not every kitchen clear out yields a Bentley, the bronze front doors once at Harrods and lithographs by Miro, Picasso and Dali. But Ashford Castle is not your average kitchen and all these lots will be included in Aidan Foley’s online auction of contents from the kitchens and lodge there on January 20 and 21.
The luxury hotel is carrying out a refit. Among masses of catering equipment and rare once off collectibles is a pair of plate glass doors in their bronze surround originally at Harrods. The large doors were acquired for Ashford Castle as part of a scheme that was never realised. Each one is a single plain glass panel.
The Bentley is estimated at €10,000-€20,000 and there is significant interest in it already. There is a Porsche too. A selection of around 50 lithographs by Miro, Picasso and Dali will whet the appetites of collectors. Around 700 lots will come under the hammer. The catalogue is online and the auction is on view for three days from January 17 in Cong, Co. Mayo at the Old Mill just outside the back gate of the castle.
A Miro woodcut from Ashford Castle. UPDATE: THIS MADE 220 AT HAMMER
An 1882 Patek Philippe lady’s watch UPDATE: THIS MADE 6,000 AT HAMMER
The sale on January 13 by RJ Keighery in Waterford, home of the Irish Museum of Time, will include a lifetime collection of over 300 clocks and watches Among them is a Patek Philippe lady’s watch specifically made for a client in 1882 with its original receipt (€2,000-€4,000), a Waterford c1770 longcase clock by Thomas Cahill (€2,000-€3,000), a triple fusee bracket clock (€1,000-€1,500) and longcase clocks made in Dublin, Kilkenny, Antrim, Leeds, Lewes and elsewhere.
There are wall clocks, bracket clocks, mantle clocks, Vienna clocks and even a Black Forest mid 19th century cuckoo and quail clock with its original weights (€300-€500).
The sale will feature over 80 original and once very familiar enamel signs redolent of bygone days advertising everything from Murphy’s Cork Stout and Porter to Fry’s Cocoa, Player’s Please, Will’s Woodbine and St. Bruno Flake. A vintage Thomas Edison phonograph with a cylinder is estimated at €400-€600.
MARGO BANKS – STILLNESS (MIXED MEDIA)
An exhibition of new work by Margo Banks at the Solomon Gallery in Dublin until February 1 includes a range of mixed media studies of Irish wildlife. The artist strives to capture the freedom, autonomy and sense of otherness enjoyed by creatures of the wild like the hare, fox, deer and crow. The show features a new work in bronze as the artist revisits her sculptural practice. Her work is included in the OPW Collection, Enterprise Ireland and Cill Rialaig Arts Centre and in private collections in Ireland, the US, UK and Holland.
Louis Le Brocquy (1916-2012) – Tain Series – Metamorphosis (1969). UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,800 AT HAMMER
This lithographic brush drawing from Louis le Brocquy’s Tain Series kicks off Morgan O’Driscoll’s off the wall online art auction which runs until the evening of January 13. Numbered 61/70 and from a private collection it is estimated at 1,500-2,500. The catalogue for the sale is online and bidding gets underway at 6.30 pm.
