FERNAND LÉGER (1881-1955) – Les Papillons (1944). UPDATE: THIS MADE 26,000 AT HAMMER
Les Papillons by Fernand Leger is the leading lot at Adams Mid-Century Modern sale on April 8. Viewing for the auction of 241 lots gets underway in Dublin today and continues for the next four days. Among the top lots there is art by Guggi, Stephen McKenna, Suzanne Valadon, Albert Irvin, Felim Egan, A R Penck, Richard Gorman and Sean Scully. There is furniture by Eileen Gray, Charles and Ray Eames, Johannes Anderson, Edmondo Palutari and Niels Otto Moller. Les Papillons is estimated at €20,000-€30,000 and the catalogue is online.
This 1775 document from Whyte’s eclectic collector timed online auction which runs until April 6 relates to Elvis Presley’s Irish ancestor. The charge sheet details how William Presley was attacked in a dispute over land as follows:
County Carlow Jury charge sheet of William Presley of Stradnakelly in the County of Wicklow, farmer. ‘The Jurors for our Lord the King, upon their Oath, that Andrew Morris of Mullannashea, Co. Wicklow, Francis Morris of Whiterock, Wicklow Samuel Morris of Cross, Thomas Morris late of Hacketstown, Co Carlow, William Wilson, Thomas Matthers, yeomen, with many other evil disposed Persons and Disturbers of the Peace whose names are ignorant of, On seventeenth day of August in the fifteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the Grace of God of Great-Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, with Force and Arms that is to say with Swords, Sticks at Hacketstown in the said Co Carlow did riotously, routously and unlawfully assemble and associate themselves together, and the said Persons being then and there so riotously, routously and unlawfully assembled and associated upon one William Presley, a True and faithfully subject of the King the peace of God and of the said Lord the King ..they did beat wound and ill-treat where his life was greatly despaired of.. Contrary to the peace of our said Lord the King his Crown and Dignity’ .
This is a rare piece of evidence about Elvis Presley’s claim to Irish ancestry. William Presley left Hacketstown and emigrated to the United States. Lot 459 is estimated at €1,000-€1,500.
The catalogue with nearly 500 lots is online. Viewing gets underway today at Whyte’s at Molesworth St. in Dublin. The auction will draw to a close from 2 pm on April 6.
A selection of lots on offer including an early 19th century sideboard at Aidan Foley’s sale in Doneraile.
Art by Mark O’Neill, Markey Robinson, Jack B Yeats and Banksy is included in Aidan Foley’s two day online auction on March 31 and April 1 at 6 pm on each day. Now on view in Doneraile the auction will include contents from the Convent of Mercy in Charleville. Among the highlights is a longcase clock by Egans of Cork, a ten foot long hunt table, a 19th century serving table, an early 19th century sideboard, a Victorian dining table and a Belfast clock. There is garden furniture and collectibles including Oriental rugs, Waterford Crystal, a Killarney wood workbox and porcelain.
Longcase clock by Egans of Cork UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,750 AT HAMMER
Selected contents from the Convent of Mercy in Charleville and contents from a period home in Cork city will feature at Aidan Foley’s two day sale on March 31 and April 1. Highlights include longcase clocks by Egans of Cork and S D O’Neill Ltd. of Belfast, a 19th century hunt table and art by Markey Robinson, Michael Hales, John Morris and Mark O’Neill. Collectibles include Persian rugs, Waterford crystal, porcelain and garden furniture. An antique violin by Josef Thier of Innsbruck in good original condition will be sold on behalf of The Hope Foundation. The online only auction will be on view in Doneraile from March 28. UPDATE: THE JOSEF THIER VIOLIN MADE 1,420 AT HAMMER AND THE BELFAST LONGCASE CLOCK MADE 2,000 AT HAMMER.
Louis XV ormolu mounted desk at Woodwards. UPDATE: THIS MADE 650 AT HAMMER
A Louis XV ormolu mounted desk (€1,000-€2,000), a Sheraton inlaid bowfront sideboard (€600-€800), an Edwardian roll top desk (€750-€1,000), a small Irish Regency bookcase (€400-€500) and a pair of Edwardian demi-lune side tables €750-€1,000) give some indication of the value to be had at Woodwards online auction in Cork on March 29. Some or all of these pieces will be picked up for less than the low estimate. Antique furniture continues to represent very good value. More than 300 lots will come under the hammer.
The decorative interior sale at Victor Mee on March 26 and 27 can be viewed online too. More than 950 lots, headed by an antique Irish Georgian marble fireplace from the Castle Saunderson Estate in Co. Cavan and a cast iron gazebo, will come under the hammer over two online evening sales.
Irish Georgian marble fire surround at Victor Mee. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD
Mark O’Neill – Garden’s Rainbow. UPDATE: THIS MADE 3,700 AT HAMMER
Art and whiskey combine to make Dolan’s Spring auction, now live online, a cause to celebrate for collectors of all things Irish. Artists featured include Mark O’Neill, Arthur Maderson, Peter Curling, Norman Teeling, Susan Cronin, George Gillespie, Robert Egginton and Moyra Barry. The sale features a selection of Very Rare Midleton Whiskeys and there is antique furniture and collectibles, including stamps and books. The timed online sale runs until March 24.
A set of 10 Very Rare Midleton whiskeys. UPDATE: THESE MADE 4,600 AT HAMMER
PAIR 19TH-CENTURY FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD & MARQUETRY SIDE TABLES. UPDATE: THESE WERE UNSOLD
Viewing gets underway in Durrow today for the re-scheduled Paradigms and the Unexpected auction by Sheppards from March 18-20. The auction was to have been held this week but it was postponed after the unexpected death of Sheppards director Philip Sheppard. Pictured here is lot 331, a pair of 19th century French side tables. They are estimated at €4,000-€6,000. More than 1700 lots will come under the hammer and the catalogue is online.
Antique Mahal rug from west Persia from the Peter Linden collection at Adams. UPDATE: THIS MADE 3,600 AT HAMMER
With no less than three online sales next week James Adam will offer a selection to suit many tastes. Emeralds, diamonds, topaz, sapphires, pearls, gold, coral, lapis lazuli and aquamarine will feature in various settings at The Jewellery Box sale of 275 lots from 11 am on March 11.
The Peter Linden rug collection comes under the hammer on Wednesday. Sadly Ireland’s leading specialist in antique carpets, kilims, rugs and tapestries, who established his business here in 1980, died in 2024. His collection will be headed by a semi-antique Kashan carpet with an estimate of €5,000-€8,000. Estimates at the timed online sale which starts to close at 2 pm on March 12 are from €50 up
An online picture sale at James Adam next Thursday will include works from the studio of Fergus O’Ryan along with artists like Rowland Hill, Cathy Carman, William Conor, Harry Kernoff, Anne Yeats, Basil Blackshaw, Barbara Warren, Muriel Brandt and Tony O’Malley. All catalogues are online and there is viewing across the weekend and next week at Adams, St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin.
The Scarecrow by Fergus O’Ryan (1911-1989). UPDATE: THIS MADE 110 AT HAMMER
A pair of George III Waterford mirrors. UPDATE: THESE MADE 9,000 AT HAMMER
A pair of George III Waterford oval mirrors of a type prized by collectors with alternating blue and clear crystal faceted cabochons will feature three days of sales at Sheppards in Durrow from March 18-20. True collectors items like this don’t come cheap and the estimate is €15,000-€25,000.
Viewing for the Paradigms and the Unexpected sale gets underway in Durrow on March 15. The most expensively estimated of over 1700 lots is a south Dublin collection of luxury watches headed by a recently serviced Rolex day date president with square cut diamonds representing the hour marks (€25,000-€35,000). There is a similar estimate on a Franck Muller conquistador watch. Both of these will come up on Wednesday, the mirrors on Tuesday afternoon.
The most expensive paintings in the sale, with top estimates of €15,000, are Sea Green Mood by Nano Reid, Boats in the Bay, Greatmans Bay, Galway by Charles Lamb and Bathers by the Pier, Waterfoot, Antrim by James Humbert Craig. Among the many artists represented are Sean Keating, John Behan, William Crozier, Gerard Dillon, Anthony Scott, Grace Henry, Kenneth Webb, Mainie Jellett, Percy French and there is a complete set of Malton Views of Dublin.
A private collection of guitars will include Canadian rocker Fred (C.F.) Turner’s 1968 Fender Precision green bass guitar (€5,000-€8,000). Other collectibles include a 1999 Late Late Show music script signed by Gay Byrne on his last show (€1,500-€2,500) and an Everlast boxing glove signed by Mohammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Larry Holmes, Ken Norton, Riddick Bowe, Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Lennox Lewis and George Foreman (€4,000-€6,000) and selections of Chinese and Japanese ceramics.
Among a large selection of furniture is a Black Forest hat and coat tree, a Killarney work table, Dublin furniture by Hicks, Art Deco mirrored pieces, a signed Maple and Co. kneehole desk, a 17th century Tibetan monastery trunk and an Irish Vernacular tree dugout cabinet.
Black Forest hat and coat tree. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD
19th century giltwood mirror by R.W. Clarke, Cork. UPDATE: THIS MADE 440 AT HAMMER
With everything from a circular giltwood mirror by Clarkes of Cork, an Irish bureau gifted by Winston Churchill and a set of lithographs of Egypt and Nubia to antique pottery from the Della Robia Studio, Birkenhead, a modern home bar and an ebonised Italian dining set Fonsie Mealy’s two day sale in Castlecomer on March 5 and 6 is of wide appeal. UPDATE: THE SALE HAS BEEN RE-SCHEDULED TO MARCH 18-20.
More than 700 lots will come under the hammer over two days. The 19th century bureau (€1,000-€1,500) was, by family tradition, a gift from Churchill to General Sir Bindon Blood. Churchill served under Blood at the North West Frontier in 1897 and dedicated his first non fiction book – The Story of the Malakand Field Force – to him. There will be local interest in a 19th century circular leaf decorated mirror and original plate by R W Clarke of Cork (€200-€300) and collectors will be taken by three terracotta blue and white relief panels attributed to the Harold Rathbone Della Robia Studio in Birkenhead (€800-€1,000).
Collectors of a different sort have lots to choose from like a modern formica glazed and padded home bar, matching shelves and four high stools (€500-€700); a five piece ebonised Italian dining set by Molteni (€1,500-€2,000); four leather armchairs by Rolf Benz (€800-€1,000) and a modern L shaped designer couch (€500-€600).
The excitement surrounding the discovery of the tomb of King Thutmose II in the Valley of the Kings – the first finding of a Pharaoh’s tomb since Tutankhamun over a century ago – adds interest to lot 542, a set of 20 lithographs of Egypt and Nubia (€800-€1,200). These are by Louis Haghe, maple framed in landscape and portrait form and dated 1838. The selection of art includes work by Sean Keating and Fergus O’Ryan and there is a selection of antique furniture and collectibles,
Viewing continues in Castlecomer next Monday and Tuesday from 9.30 am to 5 pm on each day and the catalogue is online.
A modern J shaped home bar. UPDATE: THIS MADE 420 AT HAMMER
