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VICTORIAN ENGLISH IMAGES AT CHRISTIE’S INTERIORS SALE

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

There is something nostalgic and even retrospective about these two Victorian images created by English artists abroad in the 19th century. Neither work is expensive. Each one features at the next Christie’s Interiors sale at South Kensington in London on August 9.

The work on the left is by Elijah Walton (1832-1880). No prizes for guessing the title of this pencil watercolour and body colour on paper. An Alpine Landscape is estimated at just £400-600. The other work, which Christie’s have catalogued as English School 1847 is called Cypresses on the Bosphorus, inscribed and dated ‘Cyprepes – on The Bosphorus 1847’ (on the mount). It is unframed and the lot includes another image of the mouth of the Bosphous at the entrance to the Black Sea by W.B. Urmston. The estimate is £500-700. Both images are © Christie’s Images Limited 2011.

Elijah Walton's Alpine Landscape (click on image to enlarge). UPDATE: THIS MADE £625.

Cypresses on the Bosphorus (click on image to enlarge. UPDATE: THIS MADE £850

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MAGNIFICENT PIECES FROM THE SAFRA COLLECTIONS

Friday, July 29th, 2011

The French commode and Russian vases pictured below will feature at the four day sale of the Lily and Edmond J. Safra Collections at Sotheby’s in New York in October. Of interest to connoisseurs worldwide the sale offers lots that Sotheby’s say are at the pinnacle of their respective collecting categories.

The six dedicated sales of the collection from October 18-21 are expected to realise more than $40 million. A two day sale of the Safra collections at Sotheby’s in 2005 brought in $49 million.

UPDATE: The group of French 18th century lacquer furniture headed by the lacquer commode pictured which made $6,914,500 brought in a total of $12.5 million. The four day sale realised $45,900,064.

(See antiquesandartireland.com post for July 10, 2011.)

A pair of Imperial Porcelain Vases, decorated with portraits of Alexandra Fedorovna and her father, King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia, after the portrait by Franz Krüger now in the 1812 Gallery of the Hermitage (est. $1.5/2.5 million). (Click on image to enlarge). UPDATE: THESE WERE UNSOLD.

: A Louis XVI Ormolu-Mounted Japanese lacquer commode with secretaire en suite, attributed to Adam Weisweiler (est. $5/7 million). (Click on image to enlarge). UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR $6,914,500

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RARE STAMPS FROM STEINBERG COLLECTION AT SOTHEBY’S

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011

Australia Kangaroo issue, 1913-14. (est. £15,000-20,000)(click on image to enlarge)

RARE stamps of distinction will come under the hammer at Sotheby’s next September. The Philatelic Collection of the Northern Irish peer Lord Steinberg is unique as it contains only mint blocks of four or larger multiples from 74 countries of the British Empire. Highlights include Australia with many rare Kangeroo blocks; the British Solomon Islands block; classic Ceylon; Falkland Islands with the 1933 Centenary set in marginal blocks of four; Hong Kong; India; Newfoundland with the unique 1927 De Pinedo airmail block of four and the 1932 DO-X airmail block of four with the surcharge inverted, and a selection of Rhodesian Double Head issues.

They will be offered in a series of sales on September 6-8 and on September 21. The three day sale is of British Empire multiples, the sale on September 21 will feature Great Britain exclusively. Altogether 2,068 blocks will be offered in a sale expected to realise £4 million.

Lord Steinberg was the grandson of immigrants who turned a single unlicensed betting shop at the back of his father’s Belfast milk counter into the Stanley Leisure Group, a chain of 640 betting outlets and 45 casinos which employed 7,000 people. He became a peer, deputy treasurer of the Conservative Party and president of Lancashire County Cricket Club. The business was founded in Belfast in 1958, but Steinberg moved to Liverpool in 1977 when he refused to pay protection money to either republican or loyalist paramilitaries. He was shot in 1977 by the Provisional IRA. Proceeds are for causes and charities associated with Lord Steinberg, who died in 2009. This includes the fund he started with the aim of helping to rebuild Old Trafford, home of Lancashire County Cricket Club.

UPDATE: The four day sale brought in £2,648,652, the one day auction comprised of Great Britain Mint Multiples realised £1,134,924.

Hong Kong 1863-71 at 30 cents. (est. £10,000-12,000) (Click on image to enlarge)

: 1840 1d. black. (est. £150,000-250,000) (click on image to enlarge) UPDATE: This sold for

£180,000

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BEATLES PHOTO MAKES $68,500

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011

This image was the top lot.

THIS 1964 photo of the Beatles on their first US tour was estimated to make $2,000 but in fact sold for $68,500.

It was taken by a then 18 year old photographer named Mike Mitchell. He had been granted a press pass. But the photographs were never published and he kept 400 negatives and contact sheets in a box for 47 years.

With encouragement from friends, he showed them to Christie’s. They selected 46 images. Partly becasue Mitchell as a photographer is relatively unknown Christie’s reckoned they would make $100,000 dollars.

The collection sold for $362,000.

See antiquesandartireland.com post for May 26, 2011.

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EMPEROR’S CIGARETTE BOX GIFT MAKES 3,800 IN BANDON

Monday, July 25th, 2011

THIS lacquer cigarette box was an emperor’s gift. It had been presented to the late Georgette Ellison by the late Emperor Hirohito of Japan.

The cigarette box – an unusual feature of the Hegarty’s sale in Bandon on July 24 – sold for 3,800. It was bought by a collector in Hong Kong, who heard about the piece through the internet.

Georgette Ellison was widow of a high ranking US military officer who served in the Far East in the years following the Second World War.

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ZAMBIAN EMERALDS FOR ASIAN ELEPHANTS

Thursday, July 21st, 2011

SAWANSUKHA JEWELLERS ZAMBIAN EMERALD NECKLACE. (Click on image to enlarge). Copyright Sotheby's.

A collection of bespoke Zambian emerald jewellery is to be auctioned to protect the Asian elephant. Sotheby’s will conduct the sale on October 14, 2011 at the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai. Sponsors are the World Land Trust and ethical coloured gemstones mining company, Gemfields, together with Jaguar Land Rover and the Gemological Institute of America (GIA India). Gemfields has picked ten leading jewellers from around India to create a one-of-a-kind piece or set of jewellery, incorporating Zambian emeralds. The jewellers are Abaran Jewellers (Bangalore), Anmol Jewellers (Mumbai), Gem Palace (Jaipur), Khanna Jewellers (New Delhi), Meena Jewellers(Hyderabad), Narayan Jewellers (Baroda), Nirav Modi (Mumbai), Sawansukha Jewellers (Kolkata), Talwarsons Jewellers (Chandigarh) and Vummidi Bangaru Jewellers (Chennai).

The aim of the charity auction is to create awareness and raise crucial funds for the conservation initiatives of Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) for the Asian Elephant in India. Auctioneer Lord Poltimore, deputy chairman of Sotheby’s Europe, said: “Sotheby’s is delighted to be supporting ‘Emeralds for Elephants’ charity auction in Mumbai this coming October, which will generate much-needed funds for the protection of the Asian Elephant. The combination of jewellers and gemstones has resulted in some truly magnificent jewellery pieces of outstanding workmanship, inspired by the very cause they will be sold to benefit. We very much look forward to playing a modest role in raising funds for this worthy cause.”

The sale follows the success of ‘Emeralds for Elephants’ in London in the summer of 2010.

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IRISH BROADSIDES EDITED BY JACK B. YEATS TOP LOT AT MEALY’S BOOK SALE

Wednesday, July 20th, 2011

A complete set of Broadsides edited by Jack B. Yeats made 12,000. (Click on image to enlarge).

A complete set of 84 Irish broadsides edited by Jack B. Yeats was

Lady Gregory's copy of The Aran Islands made 11,000. (Click on image to enlarge).

the top lot at Mealy’s rare book sale in Dublin on July 19. Published by Dun Emer and Cuala Press, bound and hand tooled by Esther Ryan, signed by Jack B. Yeats and with the ownership signature of the distinguished Irish actor Jack MacGowran, it made 12,000. Published monthly between June 1908 and May 1915 there are contributions by James Stephens, Lady Gregory, Douglas Hyde, John Masefield, Seamus O’Sullivan and others, old ballads and over 100 hand coloured drawings by Yeats. The collection made 12,000.

Lady Gregory’s copy of The Aran Islands signed by Synge and Jack B. Yeats, which was later signed by Jack MacGowran in Dublin in 1972, made 11,000. A rare coloured copy of Jonathan Fisher’s Tour of Killarney with 20 views from 1790 also made 11,000. A first edition of Ulysses, published by Shakespeare and Company in 1922, made 8,250.

See antiquesandartireland.com posts for July 14 and July 8.

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CHRISTIE’S INTERIORS AT SOUTH KENSINGTON ON AUGUST 2

Wednesday, July 20th, 2011

Christie’s Interiors Sales, regularly held at South Kensington in London and in New York, offers decorators and collectors an opportunity to acquire one of a kind objects in virtually every style from antique to contemporary. Price points are lower and these sales offer something for everyone.

Here are two lots from the upcoming Christie’s Interiors sale in South Kensington on August 2:

This 19th century Chinese Famille Verte baluster jar and cover is estimated at 3,000-5,000. (Click on image to enlarge). Copyright, Christie's Images, 2011. UPDATE: THIS MADE £3,750.

This late 19th or early 20th century pair of French giltwood fauteuils of Louis XVI style is estimated at £1,000-£1,500. (Click on image to enlarge). Copyright, Christie's Images, 2011. UPDATE: THESE MADE £875

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DRAWING FOR ROMAN STYLE ARCH ENTRANCE AT RATHFARNHAM CASTLE AT AUCTION

Tuesday, July 19th, 2011

THE drawing for the entrance gateway at Rathfarnham Castle. (Click on image to enlarge). UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR A HAMMER PRICE OF 680 (the lot included two other drawings).

An original drawing for the Roman style triumphal arch entrance at Rathfarhham Castle in Dublin features at the Matthews auction at Oldcastle, Co. Meath on July 26 at 6.30 p.m. The castle was built around 1583 by Adam Loftus, a Yorkshire clergyman who came to Ireland as chaplain to the Lord Deputy and rose to become Archbishop of Dublin and Lord Chancellor of Ireland. He was closely involved in the establishment of Trinity College.

After more than a century of family ownership the property passed by marriage to Phillip Wharton, who lost his money in the South Sea Bubble. The castle was sold in 1723 and after several changes of ownership it was bought in 1767 by Nicholas Hume-Loftus, second Earl of Ely, a descendant of Adam Loftus. To celebrate regaining ownership the Loftus family made another entrance for the castle in the form of a Roman Triumphal Arch. This can still be viewed from nearby Dodder Park Road. Henry Loftus, Earl of Ely was responsible for much of the conversion of the medieval fortress into a Georgian mansion and employed renowned architects Sir William Chambers and James ‘Athenian’ Stuart to carry out these works. The castle is now in the care of Heritage Ireland and is open to the public as a castle undergoing conservation. The estimate for the drawing is 500-800.

UPDATE: THE drawing, with two others, sold for a hammer price of 680.

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ORIENTAL OKIMONO, JADE AND BRONZE AT HEGARTY’S BANDON SALE

Saturday, July 16th, 2011

A lacquer and solid silver mounted Japanese smoker's companion set comprising of cigarette box and ashtray on tray, presented to Georgette Ellison by Hirohito/Emperor Showa. UPDATE: THIS MADE 3,800

An Oriental collection gathered in the Far East –

Early 20th century large Satsuma jar. UPDATE: IT MADE 1,150

including okimono, Satsuma, jade and bronze enamel – will feature at the Hegarty’s auction in Bandon on July 24. The Ellison collection has been consigned from west Cork. The late Georgette Ellison, whose husband was a high ranking US military member, started the collection post World War II while they were stationed overseas. Included is a silver and lacquer smoking companion set presented by Hirohito/Emperor Showa to Mrs Ellison.

The sale of 350 lots also features some Irish Regency furniture, a Cork two door library bookcase, Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian occasional furniture, a one owner collection of 30 lots of Irish art and twenty lots of silver.

A 19th century trumpet shaped porcelain Japanese vase with 6 character marks. UPDATE: THIS MADE 650

An ancient Chinese hand-painted wall hanging, approx. 6ft x 21". UPDATE: THIS MADE 380

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