A blue and white jug with an image of Bearforest House in Mallow is among the lots at Aidan Foley’s online only sale in Doneraile, Co. Cork on September 5. Bearforest was designed by Sir Richard Morrison, the architect of many notable country houses in Ireland including Fota in Cork, Kilruddery near Bray and Ballyfin in Co. Laois. There is Cork and Irish silver, antique furniture including a French 19th century walnut display cabinet, a Victorian breakfast table and games tables and a wide variety of collectibles. Art includes work by Arthur Maderson and Marie Carroll and a selection. of hunting prints.
THIS Regency card table is lot 6 at Hegarty’s of Bandon timed online sale of antiques, interiors, collectibles, jewellery and art which runs to the evening of August 30. The sale will be hosted by Hegarty’s newly designed live.hegartyantiques.com There will be 266 lots.
Regency card table (550-750). UPDATE: THIS MADE 700 AT HAMMER
A curated ensemble of artworks and furniture with prestigious provenance comes up at Christie’s Collections sale in Paris on September 22. It will feature collections from King Leopold II’s villa at Saint Jean Cap Ferrat, HRH Princess Murat’s former private collection from rue de Monceau, Mr. Henri Klinger’s collection and drawing, paintings, furniture and art from the estate of Mrs. Francose Heftler. Collections is a new concept for Christie’s in Paris and it follows successful iterations in New York and London.
BUREAU DE PENTE D’EPOQUE LOUIS XV ESTAMPILLE DE PIERRE II MIGEON, MILIEU DU XVIIIe SIECLE once in the collection of Princess Murat (€6,000-10,000). UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 16,250
AN auction celebrating the cultural impact of Hip Hop, or rap music, will. be held by Sotheby’s in New York on September 15. The first dedicated Hip Hop sale for an international audience reflects the impact of the music developed in the US by inner-city African Americans and Latino Americans in the Bronx borough of New York in the 1970s. With over 120 lots the auction is comprised of unique artifacts, contemporary art, one of a kind experiences, photography, vintage and modern fashion, historic and newly designed jewelry and luxury items, rare ephemera including flyers and posters, important publications. Highlights include the crown worn and signed by Notorious B.I.G. from the Iconic 1997 King of New York and an archive of High School love letters written by Tupac Shakur. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Queens Public Library Foundation.
Barron Claiborne, ‘Notorious B.I.G. as the K.O.N.Y (King of New York). UPDATE: THE CROWN SOLD FOR $594,750
THE sale of James and Marilynn Alsdorf’s private collection of Asian art is at Christie’s in New York on September 24. The connoisseurship of this Chicago couple is widely recognised. They spent their 38-year marriage building a wide-ranging collection marked by both quality and diversity. For the Alsdorfs, collecting represented the opportunity for exploration, adventure and pursuit of beauty, extending from the art-filled rooms of their Chicago residence to China and India.
They gifted and lent hundreds of works to the Art Institute of Chicago where he served as chairman from 1975-78 and she served for a time as president of the museum Women’s Board. In 1997, Mrs. Alsdorf presented the AIC with 400 works of Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian art. Less than a decade later she supported the Renzo Piano-designed renovation of what are now the Alsdorf Galleries for Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian Art. The collection will be sold across two sale sessions on September 24, with a complementary online auction from September 4 to 29.
RARE AND MAGNIFICENT BRONZE FIGURE OF SHIVA TRIPURAVIJAYA
SOUTH INDIA, TAMIL NADU, CHOLA PERIOD, CIRCA 1050 ($1-1.5 million)
A bygone era in Kerry, when deals were done in smoke filled rooms at the County Kerry Club in Denny St., Tralee, is recalled in a lot coming up at Mullen’s classic and contemporary interiors online sale at Laurel Park, Bray on August 24. Established in the early 1830’s the County Kerry Club, at 9/10 Denny St., numbered Daniel O’Connell and his brother John among its members and offered both dining rooms and accommodation. Lot 458 is an inscribed silver tea service presented in 1866 by the members to Richard Chute Mason, club secretary. It is estimated at €2,500-€3,000. Among the other lots on offer is a pair of monumental sandstone garden urns, each over two metres high. Their Irish owners shipped them from their home in Beverly Hills to the grounds of their home in south Dublin when they returned to live here. They are estimated at €8,000-€12,000.
Kerry silver tea service. UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,800 AT HAMMER
A pair of patinated and gilded bronze candleabra by Claude Lalanne are among the modern creations from the remarkable private collection of Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan due to come under the hammer at Christie’s Paris on October 1. Based at Bellerive Castle, Geneva, they have been the discreet patrons of many major philanthropic projects, aimed at preserving cultural and natural sites, from Egyptian temples to the Alps. The Aga Khan’s gathered an outstanding collection from a variety of cultures across the globe, reflecting their essence with this incredibly universal, yet very personal selection of fascinating objects and masterpieces. Each work of art demonstrates the collector’s open-cultural approach, representing a rich cultural history, with century-old objects, alongside works from leading artists and commissioned pieces from artists the couple maintained close friendships with.
Francois Curiel, Christie’s chairman, Europe said: “The true passion for the arts that united this couple is illustrated in their curation of the collection, and the confrontations and juxtapositions the objects impose on the surrounding objects. The 17th and 18th century furniture interact with pieces by Diego Giacometti, Claude Lalanne or Philippe Hiquily, antique paintings are in dialogue with Picasso’s oeuvre, while Orientalist pieces resonate with works by Isabelle de Borchgrave.”
A pair of patinated and gilded bronze candelabra by Claude Lalanne (estimated €60,000-80,000 each). UPDATE: THESE MADE 131,250 AND 137,500 RESPECTIVELY
A total of 341 varied lots will come under the hammer at the James Adam At Home sale in Dublin on August 23. There is silver, jewellery, watches, paintings, collectibles and antique furniture including this c1830 Irish rosewood three seater settee in the manner of Mack, Williams and Gibton. The catalogue is online and this will be a live webcast sale with online, room, telephone and absentee bidding.
IRISH ROSEWOOD AND UPHOLSTERED THREE SEAT SETTEE (1,500-2,000). UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,200 AT HAMMER
This 19th century gilt brass mounted walnut table is lot 205 at Mullen’s Classic and Contemporary Interiors online auction at Laurel Park, Bray on August 24. Estimated at 800-1,200 it is one of more than ten desks and bureaux in this auction of 637 lots. The auctioneers reckon that these pieces might be of particular interest to those newly working from home. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD
This 1796 silver token, a ticket medal to the Private Theatre at Fishamble St. in Dublin, comes up at an online sale at Dix Noonan Webb in London on August 27. With the robed figures of Tragedy, Comedy and Lyric and in the name of L. Taylor it was made by William Mossop, considered to be the founder of metallic art in Ireland, and speaks to a history of theatre splits here.
The Private Theatre – located on the same premises where Handel’s Messiah had its world premiere at the New Music Hall in 1742 – was established in the1790’s as a result of dissatisfaction with the way affairs were conducted at the city’s Theatre Royal, which had opened at Smock Alley in 1662. Under the management of the Earl of Westmeath and Frederick Jones, described as a threatre promoter and gentleman of independent means from Vesington, Co. Meath, it must have involved some talent scouting. Each subscriber was allowed two silver tickets and could, if qualified, take part in the performance. Lot 219 is from a collection of 81 lots of Irish tokens from a private collection and is estimated at £300-£400.
