Archive for the ‘COLLECTIBLES’ Category
Friday, July 10th, 2015
The Nobel Prize awarded to Sir Hans Krebs in 1953.
The Nobel Prize medal awarded to Hans Krebs (1900-1981) – the scientist who explained the conversion of food into energy within the cell – comes up at Sotheby’s in London on July 14. A Jewish refugee who fled Nazi Germany for the UK in the early 1930’s Hans Krebs became on the most pre-eminent scientists of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1953. The medal is being sold to benefit the Hans Krebs Trust, established to provide grants to support refugee scientists and the training of young scientists in the biomedical sciences. The medal is estimated at £250,000-350,000.
UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £275,000
Tags: Nobel Prize, Sir Hans Krebs
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Wednesday, July 8th, 2015
A claret jug in the form of an eagle is the opening lot at Mealy’s mid summer sale in Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny on July 15. It is estimated at 700-1,100 in a sale of more than 600 lots of fine and decorative art. Lot 34 is The Georgian Society records volumes 1, 2 and 3 printed in Dublin in 1911 and estimated at 1,000-1,500. A full size Victorian snooker table has an estimate of 1,500-2,500 and Ken O’Neill’s Elegance on a Beach has an estimate of 500 to 800. The catalogue is on line. Here is a taster menu.
BERNARD DE HOOG (1867-1943), Cottage Interior (10,000-15,000). UPDATE: THIS MADE 7,200 AT HAMMER
A William IV Games Table (5,000-7,000). UPDATE: THIS MADE 4,500 AT HAMMER
A decanter in the shape of an eagle. UPDATE: THIS MADE 795 AT HAMMER
The Georgian Society’s Volumes 1, II and III UPDATE: THESE SOLD FOR 800 AT HAMMER
A full size Victorian snooker table. UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,800
Ken O’Neill – Elegance on a Beach (500-800). UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD
Tags: GEORGIAN SOCIETY, mealy's
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2015
The 15th century ring. UPDATE: IT SOLD FOR £35,000
A 15th century marriage ring unearthed with a metal detector comes up at Sotheby’s sale of Old Master Sculpture and Works on Art in London on July 9. It was discovered in 2013 near Launde Abbey, an Elizabethan manor house once home to Thomas Cromwell’s son and is estimated at £20,000-30,000. The ring is an exceptionally lavish example of its kind, on which the bond between husband and wife is symbolised by two different gems, a point-cut diamond and a rounded ruby. The engraved sprigs on the partially enamelled shoulders of the ring are typical of a goldsmith’s work in fifteenth-century England.
From the 12th century onwards, the site near Launde Abbey – situated in the valley of the river Chater in East Norton, Leicestershire – was occupied by a large and wealthy Augustinian Priory. Thomas Cromwell was so impressed by the building and the location that he presented it to himself after surveying it as part of the dissolution of the monasteries. His execution in 1540 prevented him from moving in. Instead his son Gregory and his wife Elizabeth Seymour, the sister of Henry VIII’s third wife Jane Seymour, took residence there.
Tags: Metal Detector find, sotheby's
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Sunday, July 5th, 2015
Contents from various Presentation Order convents will be offered by
Lynes and Lynes in Cork on July 11. The venue is the Presentation Convent, Turner’s Cross, Cork. Antique furniture includes a Victorian mirror backed sideboard, a hall stand antique bookcases, chests of drawers, bentwood chairs, church pews, pine presses and tables, porcelain, glass, garden urns and numerous other items. All lots are to be sold without reserve. Here is a small selection:
A mirror backed sideboard. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 680
A hall stand. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 330
A garden urn, one of pair. UPDATE: THESE SOLD FOR 100
There is a big selection of chairs. UPDATE: A QUANTITY OF BENTWOOD CHAIRS MADE 100.
Tags: Lynes and Lynes, Presentation Convents
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Saturday, July 4th, 2015
Paintings from the collections of Castle Howard at Sotheby’s including works by Ferdinand Bol, Bernardo Bellotto and the Workshop of Hans Holbein
An image of paintings from the collections of Castle Howard being installed at Sotheby’s in London ahead of their sale on July 8, including a rare Portrait of Henry VIII from the Workshop of Hans Holbein, and a portrait by Ferdinand Bol.
Spanning a range of periods and media, from Roman antiquities to Old Master paintings and 17th century Italian furniture, nine carefully selected works from the magnificent collections of Castle Howard will be offered.
Works from Castle Howard will feature at the Treasures Sale and the Old Master and British Paintings evening sale on July 8.
Yorkshire’s finest stately home and garden is familiar the world over as the incredible backdrop to the TV drama Brideshead Revisited and Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon.
(See post on antiquesandartireland.com for March 29, 2015)
Tags: Castle Howard, Hans Holbein, sotheby's
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Saturday, July 4th, 2015
A Regency card table once at Fota House in Cork comes up at
Fonsie Mealy’s two day Chatsworth Fine Art sale in Castlecomer on July 21 and 22. The rosewood card table has a figured fold over top with a large band of satinwood inlay. On a platform base with four outplayed scroll legs and it is complete with original decorated bass castors. It is estimated at 1,800-2,500.
In 1922 in Ireland the Civil War was raging and it was impossible to send silver to the Assay Office in Dublin. Silver produced by Egans in Cork between July and September of that year was stamped with a special mark. Around 80 pieces of what became known as Republican silver were made, and they are much prized by collectors. A Republican silver salver struck with a two masted ship and an single tower castle with the makers mark W.E. for William Egan at the auction is estimated at 8,000-10,000. Another unusual lot is an exhibition piece of furniture – a Killarney wood cabinet with an ebonised top crested by a lying stage. It is estimated at 10,000-15,000. The catalogue is online.
A Regency card table once at Fota House in Cork. UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,700 AT HAMMER
A Cork Republican silver salver. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 7,000 AT HAMMER
An exhibition piece of Killarney furniture surmounted by an ebonised cabinet. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 34,000 AT HAMMER
Tags: Fonsie Mealy, Fota House, Republican Silver
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Thursday, July 2nd, 2015
This pair of Qing vases sold for 60,000.
A pair of Chinese gu shaped polychrome vases estimated at just 800-1,200 sold for a hammer price of 60,000 at Sheppards in Durrow on July 1. They were bought by bidders in the room who had travelled from Beijing for the sale. The signed Qing period vases are by tradition from the collection of Sir William Hutchinson Poe, Baronet (1848-1934) whose address was Heywood House, Queen’s County (nowadays County Laois). A Chinese Qing period Famille Vert vase estimated at 1,000-1,500 sold for 42,000 in the room.
Vase (detail).
Vase (detail).
Vase (detail).
This Qing Famille Vert vase made 42,000.
Tags: Famille Vert, Qing Dynasty, Sheppards
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Wednesday, July 1st, 2015
The medal set including the Military Cross awarded to Tom Duggan sold for 8,000 at hammer.
THE Military Cross, OBE and 1939-45 war medals awarded to Archdeacon Tom Duggan sold for a hammer price of 8,000 at Woodwards in Cork this evening. Two bidders in the room fought off internet bidders from England and commissioned bids to battle it out from 6,500 onwards. The historic medal set – which includes the first Military Cross awarded to an army chaplain – will be staying in Cork. Archdeacon Duggan, who died on the missions in Peru in 1961, served as a chaplain in both the First and Second World Wars and taught at St. Finbarr’s Seminary in Cork.
(See post on antiquesandartireland.com for June 27, 2015).
Tags: Military Cross, Tom Duggan, Woodwards
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Monday, June 29th, 2015
Fine furniture, Oriental porcelain, carpets and rugs, art, silver, jewellery and collectibles come up in abundance at
Sheppards two day sale in Durrow, Co. Laois on June 30 and July 1. A c1780 carved gilt wood Chippendale pier mirror is estimated at 8,000-12,000 while an Arts and Craft silver serving spoon is estimated at just 50-80. The catalogue is online. Here is a small selection:
(See post on antiquesandartireland.com for June 19, 2015).
Irish eighteenth-century period silver table, circa 1760 (6,000-9,000)
Irish nineteenth-century carved gilt wood centre table (14,000-18,000)
John Singleton Copley (1737-1813) Portrait of a gentleman (15,000-25,000).
A Coalbrookedale garden seat (1,400-1,800).
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Saturday, June 27th, 2015
World War II medals awarded to Archdeacon Tom Duggan – the first chaplain to be awarded a Military Cross in the Second World War – come up at
Woodwards in Cork on July 1 at 6 pm. A chaplain in Flanders during the First World War – where he was taken prisoner in 1918 – Tom Duggan joined up again at the outbreak of the Secord World War in 1939. His Military Cross, OBE breast badge and war medals from 1939-45 are at Woodwards. He taught at St. Finbarr’s seminary in Cork between the wars and ended up as a missionary in Peru . He died in 1961 at the age of 71 and his funeral was attended by Bishop Lucey of Cork and Cardinal Cushing of Boston.
A book about Archdeacon Duggan by Dr. Carthach McCarthy was published by Blackwater Press in 1994. The auction is on the internet and Woodwards reckon the set could make up to 5,000.
UPDATE: The medal set sold for a hammer price of 8,000 euro.
The medal set including the Military Cross awarded to Tom Duggan.
The OBE awarded to the catholic chaplain.
Tags: Archdeacon Tom Duggan, Military Cross, Woodwards
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