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THERE  will be something for everyone at the National Antique and Art Fair in Limerick this weekend.  The South Court Hotel is the venue for this two day event on July 21 and 22.  More than 70 dealers from all around Ireland will be in attendance, including members of the Irish Antique Dealers Assocation.  On offer is an across the board selection of antiques and collectibles. Opening times at the fair, organised by Hibernian Antique Fairs, are from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on each day. Here is a small selection (click on any image to enlarge it).

Gallery Zozimus of Francis St., Dublin will offer Minding The Bridge by Mark O’Neill priced at 5,500.

A Victorian rosewood centre table c1850 has a price tag of 4,750 at Maguires Antiques.

A Victorian carved mahogany corner cabinet at Maguires Antiques, Co. Mayo is priced at 3,350.

This Art Deco 1929 Silver Risque Cigarette Case is priced at 320 at Annamoe Antiques.

Annamore Antiques of Co. Wicklow will offer this 18th Century Bronze Chinese urn priced at 450.

An Art Nouveau card tray at Treasures has a price tag of 150.

This Ploughman’s £1 note dated 1933 is Treasure’s Irish Art, Athlone, is priced at 350.

Three Squash is the title of this work by Mark O’Neill. It will be on offer at the Limerick fair.

THERE will be more than 70 stands brimful of everything at the National Antique and Art Fair at the South Court Hotel in Limerick on the weekend of July 21-22.  This two day event will bring dealers from all around Ireland, including many members of the Irish Antique Dealers Association, to the mid-west region.  It will feature antique furniture with an emphasis on smaller pieces, art, silver, jewellery, glass, porcelain and a wide choice of collectible items.

Hibernian Antique Fairs have organised regular fairs throughout Ireland for more than 20 years now.  This is one of their biggest annual events, and is always a crowd puller.   Opening times each day are from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

This pair of matched Terrestrial and Celestial library globes is at the Butchoff Antiques stand at Masterpiece. (Click on image to enlarge).

MASTERPIECE, now in its third year, is renowned for the rarity and quality of its pieces.  The fair, in a spectacular purpose built pavilion on the South Grounds of The Royal Hospital Chelsea, London SW3 from June 28 June to July 4, has ably taken over from the venerable Grosvenor House Antique Fair, which came to an end in 2009.  Masterpiece’s stunning debut in 2010 more than compensated for this demise. It established itself in just one offering.  With about 160 exhibitors the focus this year is on art, antiques and design.

New to Masterpiece London this year are New York dealers Sperone Westwater, Sebastian + Barquet, Siegelson, and Fred Leighton alongside Munich – based dealers Rudigier and Meissen specialist, Robbig. From Norway, the fair welcomes Kaare Berntsen with a stand devoted to Edvard Munch, including an extremely rare print of The Scream, and Hemmerle, also from Munich, add to the already strong jewellery offering with stunning contemporary pieces inspired by Ancient Egypt.

Butchoff Antiques is showing an extraordinary pair of matched terrestrial and celestial library globes. The terraqueous globe by John Addison and G. and J. Cary is supported on a San Domingo mahogany stand. It was made in London c1840.  The c1845 celestial globe was made in London by Thomas Malby and Son.

THERE is something for everyone at the National Antique and Art Fair at the South Court Hotel in Limerick on the St. Patrick’s Bank Holiday weekend.  Opening times are form 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday March 18 and Monday, March 19.  Dealers from all over Ireland, North and South, will attend  the largest fair ever organised by Hibernian Antique Fairs.  It will feature thousands of items ranging from antique furniture through jewellery, art, silver, porcelian, rare books and vintage fashion. Robin O’Donnell of Hibernian has been organising Sunday fairs around Ireland for the past 22 years and has built up a keen following.  Here is a small selection from what will be on offer:

Green Urn and Bottle by Mark O'Neill is at the Gallery Zozimus stand. It is priced at 3,500. (Click on image to enlarge).

This Sapphire and Diamond ring is at the stand of Weldon Dublin and is priced atr 10,000. (Click to enlarge).

Jos Van Riswick Aubergine & Tomatoes will be at the stand of Dublin based Gallery Zozimus. It is priced at 1,950. (Click on image to enlarge).

London dealers Robert Young Antiques will bring this Northern European Folk Art Marriage Cupboard inscribed and dated "1790". Pine with exceptional original painted decoration and retaining original metalwork hinges. (Click to enlarge)

New York’s eagerly awaited Winter Antiques Show, the annual January Armoury Show, gets underway on Friday, January 20 and runs to January 29.  Leading dealers from the United States and around the world will be in attendance at what is the most prestigious annual antiques fair in the US.  Here is a small selection of this year’s offerings.  (See post on antiquesandartireland.com for January 2):

New York's Hirschl & Adler Galleries will bring this centre table attributed to Anthony Gabriel Quervelle (b. Paris, 1789- d. Philadelphia, 1856). Philadelphia, c. 1825-30. Mahogany (secondary woods: ash, mahogany, chestnut, partially painted verde antiques). (Click on image to enlarge)

Paris dealers Les Enluminures. Renaissance Diamond Ring. The Netherlands, c. 1500. Gold and diamond. (Click on image to enlarge).

New York based Jonathan Boos will offer Marsden Hartley's (American, 1877-1943). Berlin Series, No. 1. c. 1913. (Click on image to enlarge).

London (Pimlico Road) dealers Keshishian will show this fine and rare Agra carpet. India, c. 1890. (Click on image to enlarge)

Colchester, Connecticut dealers Nathan Liverant and Son have a Federal Card Table, featuring five legs with inlaid stringing, bookend and icicle decoration. Providence or Newport, Rhode Island, 1790-1815. (Click on image to enlarge).

No less than 260 leading art and antiques dealers from 16 countries will bring their treasures to The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) silver jubilee in Maastricht, The Netherlands, from March 16-25 next. An insistence on quality has transformed TEFAF from a relatively small scale event in 1988 to one of the world’s most important art and antiques fairs. It attracts collectors, curators and connoisseurs from more than 50 countries. Last year 30,000 people visited on the opening weekend, and there was 125 private jets.

Exhibitors taking part this year are from Argentina, Austria, Belgium,  Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Korea, Monaco, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States and Uruguay. Visitors to the 2012 Fair will be greeted by a new entrance hall designed for the 25th anniversary containing a light installation by the artist Leo Villareal. Vetting of all exhibits takes place a week before the event begins.  Here are some of the upcoming exhibits:

René Lalique Art Nouveau gold, diamond and enamel dragonfly pendant, depicting four dragonflies, with greenish-blue enamelled legs and wings with complex gold veining set with diamonds and green and blue plique-à-jour enamel, centering a large oval aquamarine; on a rod and link enamelled gold chain. Lalique is the undisputed genius of Art Nouveau jewellery. He turned completely upside down the conventions of French jewellery design and manufacture by introducing in their place an entirely new form of artistic expression which was to totally transform the jeweller’s art. Today Lalique’s jewels remain the most powerful and poignant reminders of the turn of the century. Paris, circa 1903. Epoque Fine Jewels (click on image to enlarge).

Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) Effet de Neige c1866-1868. Courbet painted this remarkable image in his native Ornans region during the uncommonly cold and snowy winters of 1866-68. Using an aggressive painting technique and an unmistakable color scheme, Effet de neige is one of the most beautiful snow scenes in French art. Exhibitor: French & Company (click to enlarge).

Sèvres bottle cooler from the Emperor Joseph II Service from exhibitor Michele Beiny. It is from the service presented by Louis XVI to Marie Antoinette's brother, Joseph II in 1777. (Click on image to enlarge).