Two early pieces by Joseph Walsh, the innovative world renowned Riverstick, Co. Cork based furniture maker whose work features in major international collections like the National Gallery of Ireland and the Musée des Art Décoratifs in Paris feature at Marshs sale in Ballinhassig, Co. Cork on August 29.
The first is a sixteen foot long part Canadian cherrywood wall cabinet, comprising centre cabinet and two side cabinets dating to 1999. The second is a Canadian cherrywood tv cabinet. It is complete with centre cabinet and two side cabinets.
This is an auction of vintage tractors, lorries, farm machinery and railwayana by Marshs at the Ramble Inn, Ballinhassig, Co. Cork on behalf of Alan and Mary Barry, who are retiring. Among other lots in this sale of 333 lots are a James Crighton thrashing mill, a Terex 8 Ton excavator and an antique yard crane. There is a large selection of original enamel wall signs and a lifelong collection of memorabilia like a Victorian brass cash register, a collection of skillet pots and famine pots and a framed coloured print of the Chetwynd Viaduct.
The auction will be on view in Ballinhassig on August 26, 27 and 28 and the live and online sale is at 11 am on Saturday August 29.
A marble torso of a Roman Emperor probably representing Augustus, Tiberius or Claudius at Sotheby’s.
A series of auctions from an amazing single owner collection including the most important Roman Imperial sculpture at auction in over a decade will kick off at Sotheby’s in New York in October. Assembled over decades it encompasses more than 900 works ranging from Roman Imperial marble, Old Master paintings, ancient Near East ceramics, Islamic court carpets, Royal French furniture, Impressionist masterworks and 20th century design.
Probably representing Augustus, Tiberius or Claudius the commanding Roman sculpture complete with upper body armour is estimated at $8-$12 million (€6.92-€10.38 million). In one of this collectors residences it stands in a room that holds Richard Avedon’s revered portrait of Marilyn Monroe. Four Savonnerie carpets commissioned by Louis XIV for the Grande Galerie of the Louvre lie beneath furniture that once belonged to Marie Antoinette. Art includes masterworks by Canaletto, Degas, Fragonard, Guardi and Picasso. Works from a private collection expected to realise more than $60 million (€51.9 million) will be displayed across four floors of Sotheby’s new hq at the Breuer building in New York from October 17-22. There will be four New York sales on October 21, 22 and 23, with further lots at the Modern evening auction in New York in November. Prized and precious objects from a mosaic of civilisations will continue to feature at 22 sales in New York and Paris into 2027.
Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) – La physique du sol. Courtesy Christie’s
It is a tribute to the Parisian taste of Jeanne Marie de Broglie that the furniture she collected in the 1970’s and ’80’s is of a type that makes vast sums of money in today’s market. Maybe the key is thinking outside the box. Princess Jeanne-Marie, the forward looking daughter of a duke who established Christie’s Paris office in 1968, did not go for the fashion of the time. Instead she followed the avant-garde.
Her private collection of over 150 lots, to be sold at Christie’s in Paris on September 30, reflects an expertise in art and friendships forged with artists. Close friends with gallery owner Daniel Cordier she was active in a visionary artistic circle where she met and became friends with Jean Dubuffet. Physique du sol (€200,000-€300,000) from her collection forms part of Dubuffet’s Texturologies series developed from the late 1950’s in which the artist uses a language of textures, layers and vibrations to transform painting into a physical and sensory experience.
Diego Giacometti (1902-1985) – Table basse ‘Berceau’.
Jeanne Marie de Broglie, who died last year aged 95, made an early acquisition of a Structure végétale chandelier by Claude Lalanne (€200,000-€300,000). The centrepiece of her collection is a unique piece by Diego Giacometti, a cradle table modelled on her dog Séraphim (€400,000-€600,000).
In an apartment emblematic of the elegant characteristics of great Parisian collections ceramics by Picasso, Charles X era candlesticks and an 18th century Limoges porcelain service sat alongside art by Marc Chagall, David Hockney, Dorothea Tanning, Léon Spilliaert, Henri Michaux, Miodrag Dado, Edgar Degas and Eugène Delacroix.
Claude Lalanne (1925-2019) – Lustre Structure végétale
Daughter of Gilles de Maillé de La Tour-Landry, Duke of Maillé and Anne-Marie Radziwill, Jeanne Marie became a princess through her marriage to Guy de Broglie in 1949. The aristocratic lineage is evident in several pieces in the collection like a diamond brooch in the shape of a Maltese Cross from the Radziwill family (€30,000-€50,000) and a portrait of her grandmother Dolly Radziwill by Adrian Désiré Étienne Drian. A service bears the cipher of her ancestor Princess Louise of Prussia.
For Francois Curiel, chairman of Christie’s Europe, she was a mentor. “After a year’s apprenticeship in London as a young specialist, I had the privilege of working alongside her in Paris in the 1970s. At that time, she was writing a crucial chapter in the history of the auction house as it expanded internationally. It was under Jeanne-Marie’s watchful eye that I embarked on this adventure, which has now lasted for over 50 years.”
Christie’s, now celebrating 260 years in business, describe this sale as a tribute auction to a major figure in the European art market who helped to shape the rapidly changing landscape of post war Europe.
David Ffrench Le Roy – STILL LIFE CHEESE WINE & GRAPES. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR €1,400
This oil on board by David Ffrench le Roy is at an online auction of Irish paintings by Adams Blackrock which runs until August 12. Lot 33 is estimated at €500-€600 in a sale of 421 lots. Online sales of jewellery and watches and of antiques and furniture are running concurrently at Adams Blackrock. The furniture sale includes this canteen of assorted silver flatware, with an estimate of €1,000-€1,200. All catalogues are online.
CANTEEN OF ASSORTED SILVER FLATWARE. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR €2,834
This George III side table made €1,200 at hammer at Adams.
At a time when stylish but everyday antique furniture has been all but ignored by the market it was cheering to see a number of pieces making above estimate prices at Adam’s warehouse auction in Dublin last week. The top lot in the sale, a Georgian semi-elliptical side table with an inlaid top and compartmental frieze, made €1,200 at hammer over a high estimate of €800.
Then an Edwardian mahogany wardrobe with twin astragal glazed doors made €1,200 at hammer over a top estimate of €700.
An Edwardian mahogany Carlton House desk made a hammer price of €800, at the top of the estimate. An Edwardian brass framed four glass ceiling lantern made €550 over a top estimate of €400. While these are bargain prices when compared to what the same pieces might have made decades ago things are different now. It might be over optimistic to view such results as a straw in the wind but they are nonetheless encouraging.
Adams will conduct valuations on jewellery, watches, Irish art and fine and decorative art in Cork by appointment only on Tuesday August 4, in Belfast on August 5 and in Dublin on August 6.
An Edwardian wardrobe with astragal glazed doors made €1,200 at hammer at Adams.
A c1750 Irish silver coffee pot UPDATE: THIS MADE 3,000 AT HAMMER
Irish silver, furniture by renowned Dublin maker Robert Strahan and a white gold diamond flower head cluster ring are among the offerings at Hegarty’s online auction in Bandon on August 5.
The faded and now indecipherable maker’s mark on an ornate c1745 Dublin made Irish silver cream jug with a shaped rim and C scroll handle offers a timely lesson. It is important to preserve hallmarks by keeping a thumb upon them when polishing and shining the silver. The cream jug is estimated at €600-€800.
An elegant George II silver coffee pot made by William Townsend in Dublin c1750 is estimated at €3,500-€4,500. The baluster form pot has an ebonised handle, a domed hinged cover with finial, an acanthus leaf mounted on the spout and a circular spreading foot.
An 18 carat white gold diamond flower head cluster ring features a central round cut diamond surrounded by eight diamonds in a raised setting. The total diamond weight amounts to 1.8 carats and the estimate is €2,500-€3,500.
Lot 128 is a two door side table by Robert Strahan. Just 20 inches deep it would fit in most modern homes. There is a raised gallery back and a carved border, with fleur de lys carving on the two doors. The estimate is a mere €400-€800. The catalogue for the auction is online.
A diamond flower head cluster ring UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD
GEORGE III SEMI ELLIPTICAL SIDE TABLE UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,200 AT HAMMER
This Georgian side table is lot 38 at Adam’s timed online warehouse auction which runs until July 23. The shaped top is inlaid with a radial sunburst. The compartmented frieze has with burr walnut ovals and is cross banded in satinwood. Standing on squared tapering legs with block feet the table is estimated at just €400-€600. There are 307 lots in the sale, most will be sold without reserve in an estimate range of €80-€500.
An Italian 1970’s mobile cocktail trolley. UPDATE: THIS MADE 360 AT HAMMER
f you are dreaming of outdoor summer drinks in warming up Ireland then a striking mobile cocktail trolley on casters might fill the bill. The selection of vintage mid century modernist furniture at the online art and design auction at de Veres until July 15 includes a retro Italian 1970’s mobile cocktail bar which with little effort could be wheeled to a patio in the heat. The estimate is just €400-€600.
A 1960’s rosewood Italian sideboard with an estimate of €800-€1,200, a pair of Magis Bombo aluminium bar stools (€400-€600), a pair of French space age floor lamps (€400-€600), a burr walnut dining table attributed to Willy Rizzo (€600-€900) and a circular table by Arne Jacobsen (€200-€300) all feature at de Veres. There is no in person viewing thugh lots can be viewed by appointment. The auction of 242 lots features a large selection of artworks and the catalogue is online.
A 1960’s rosewood Italian sideboard. UPDATE: THIS MADE 650 AT HAMMER
The Islands by Vivien John (1915-1994) UPDATE: THIS MADE €120 AT HAMMER
Aidan Foley’s online evening auctions on June 22 and 23, now on view in Doneraile, offer 122 lots of paintings and prints headed by a Translucent Study by Francis Tansey and a pencil sketch of Lily Yeats by John Butler Yeats. There is a Regency style three pillar dining table, a Victorian boot and stick stand, a Victorian oak consul table, an Edwardian Sutherland table and a pair of gilt framed armchairs among a selection of 82 lots of furniture. A selection of pub memorabilia, garden furniture, porcelain and crystal and a wide variety of collectibles is on offer.
ART DECO WALNUT AND CHROME CONSOLE TABLE. UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,200
This Art Deco console table of inverted triangular form is lot 89 at Mullen’s timed online auction which runs at Laurel Park, Bray, Co. Wicklow until the evening of June 21. The estimate is €1,200-€1,800. There are 629 lots on a catalogue which features art, twenty lots of garden furniture, furniture and a wide selection of collectibles.
