Harp Lager lantern UPDATE: THIS MADE 650 AT HAMMER
A Michelin Man, an oak and metal bound drink dispenser barrel on stand, glass sweet jars and even a vintage cassette player in the form of a petrol pump are among the lots at Victor Mee’s online Collectors Collection evening sale on January 28 and 29. From Tilley lamps to an early 20th century copper whiskey still and American number plates the auction of 1,423 lots offers a huge range of popular collectibles pieces. UPDATE: DATE CHANGED TO FEBRUARY 4 AND 5.
Composition by Evie Hone. UPDATE: THIS MADE 24,000 AT HAMMER
A Composition by Evie Hone and a bronze Cubist Bull by John Behan give some sense of the depth and breadth of Morgan O’Driscoll’s Irish art online auction which runs until January 27. With 255 lots in total the sale features highly collectible artists like Donald Teskey and Majella O’Neill Collins. There is art by Donald Teskey, John Shinnors, William Scott, Liam O’Neill, Graham Knuttel, Kenneth Webb and James Brohan among the more expensively estimated lots.
International artists featured include Mr. Brainwash, Damien Hirst, Salvador Dali, Jeff Koons, Sonia Delauney and Andy Warhol with everything from a mixed media sculpture of a puppy by Koons to an offset lithograph of Queen Elizabeth by Andy Warhol from his reigning queens series and a set of six numbered Limoges plates from a large edition by Dali entitled Conquest du Cosmos.
There is art by Pauline Bewick, Christy Brown, Paul Henry, Percy French, Adam Buck, Elizabeth Magill, Markey Robinson, Adam Buck, Sean Scully, Barrie Cooke, Lady Kate Dobbin, Sir John Lavery, Harry Kernoff and a variety of other artists. The catalogue is online.
Before the Storm, Sherkin by Majella O’Neill Collins. UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,500 AT HAMMER
A pair of parcel gilt and painted elbow chairs. UPDATE: THESE MADE €2,300 AT HAMMER
A neoclassical marble chimney piece, a pair of parcel gilt elbow chairs, a Georgian lacquered longcase clock and an 18th century brass door knocker are among the treasures to be found at Sheppard’s Gems in the Attic sale in Durrow on February 4. The date has been re-scheduled due to adverse weather and telecommunications issues.
On offer are works of art from the attics, stables and storerooms of important clients of Sheppards. The 663 lots – ranging in estimate from €20-€40 (for a bottle of Chateau Pessan St. Hilaire 1992) to €4,000-€6,000 for the neoclassical marble chimney piece – are not at all typical of the half-forgotten contents of your average attic storage space.
There is everything from a 16th century gold thread and silk embroidery of the Virgin and the Angels (€500-€800) and a mixed media of The Old Claddagh, Galway by John Behan (€600-€800) to a Tibetan turquoise encrusted box and cover (€50-€80), a Berber wall hanging (€200-€300), a Dublin 19th century side table (€1,400-€1,800), a pair of Art Deco belt buckles (€100-€150) and a pair of 19th century lacquered panels €1,400-€1,800).
Collectibles include a Chinese celadon double gourd vase, a tapestry of Nefertiti, a 19th century travelling chess set, a Baule mask from Africa, a 19th century ormolu and champleve enamel casket, a Meissen bowl, a c500 BC Greek pottery ewer, two ostrich eggs on wooden stands, a green jade foo dog, a 19th century Italian glazed pottery relief plaque and a pair of 19th century Japanese ceremonial chairs.
The sale is now on view in Durrow and the catalogue is online.
A pair of Art Deco silver and mother of pearl belt buckles. UPDATE: THESE MADE €90 AT HAMMER
This c1981 optical kinetic work by Luis Tomasello, an artist renowned for his geometric abstractions, comes up at Adams timed online Modern Furnishings sale on January 29. Object Plastique No. 4 by the Argentinian born artist who died in Paris in 2014 at the age of 98 is estimated at just €500-€800. Hugely influenced by Mondrian, Tomasello worked extensively in Paris from the 1950’s onwards exhibiting alongside Victor Vasarely and Jesus Rafael Soto. He showed at numerous national and international exhibitions of Op-Art. His work is included in the Guggenheim and MoMA collections in New York, the Tate in London, the Pompidou and at the Musee d’Art Modern de la Ville de Paris, the Reina Sofia in Madrid and many more international galleries.
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.
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.
