HEREND POISSON VASE
This Poisson vase by Herend is at R J Keighery’s auction in Waterford on November 15. More than 750 lots will come under the hammer. Among them is a large collection of Waterford Crystal, antique furniture, jewellery, chandeliers and collectibles. The vase illustrated here is estimated at €3,000-€4,000.
One of a pair of Italian giltwood sofas, Genoa, circa 1740-1744
A pair of Italian giltwood sofas made €345,600 at Sotheby’s evening sale of contents from the Parisian residence of His Highness Sheikh Hamad Bin Abdullah Al Thani. They had originated from the Galleria Dorata, Palazzo Carrega-Cataldi, (now Chamber of Commerce), Via Garibaldi, Genoa, Italy. They rank among the very best of mid-18th-century Genoese Baroque cabinetmaking. Following three successful auctions totalling €12.8 million, with 100% of lots sold, two further sales continue until November 9.
(See post on antiquesandartireland.com for October 5, 2026).
A cased model of Titanic at Lynes and Lynes.
A cased model of Titanic, some rare Cork silver or a Webley-Wilkinson 1902 revolver once owned by a Victoria Cross winning resident of County. Cork whose real life military career makes the fictional James Bond career look slightly tame.
The choice is yours at sales by Lynes and Lynes in Carrigtwohill on Saturday November 14 or at leading modern and antique gun auctioneers Holts of King’s Lynn in Norfolk on November 11.
If you are looking for something out of the ordinary then how about a rare long horn chair in original condition. This one, lot 92 at Lynes and Lynes estimated at €2,000-€3,000, was made by Wenzel Friedrich (1827-1902) of San Antonio in Texas and it is in original condition.
A Webley-Wilkinson 1902 revolver at Holts. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £11,500
The life of Lt. Gen. Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart VC, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO was most certainly out of the ordinary. With a mother of Irish descent he was born into the Belgian aristocracy in May 1880. Abandoning Oxford after one term this action man enrolled in the British Army to fight the Boers and served in the Boer War, the First World War and the Second World War.
He was shot in the face, head, stomach, groin, ankle, leg, hip and ear, blinded in one eye, survived two plane crashes, tunnelled out of a prisoner of war camp and ripped off his own severely injured fingers. After arriving back in England in 1943 he was posted to China as Churchill’s personal representative. He married for the second time aged 71 and settled in Co. Cork where he died aged 83 in 1963. Carton de Wiart is buried at Caum Churchyard which backs on to his old home at Killinardrish near Macroom. His cased and engraved .455 Webley-Wilkinson 1902 revolver is estimated by Holts at £3,000-£5,000.
A longhorn chair from Texas at Lynes and Lynes
Revolvers and horn chairs may not be what floats your boat but with 481 lots in total there is much at Lynes and Lynes – on view in Carrigtwohill from today – which may be of interest. On offer is a selection of silverware, furniture, maritime items, art, jewellery and collectibles like old toys and rugs. Three oil paintings by Fergal Flanagan, pruched at the Lavit Gallery in 1998, offers view of Youghal and its clock tower, UCC and the South Mall in Cork at estimates of just €300-€500 each.
The Titanic model is estimated at €1,000-€1,500. Maritime lots include telescopes, ships wheels and clocks along with watercolours and prints of well known ships.
The selection of antique furniture in the sale includes a Georgian sideboard, a Victorian bookcase, Irish turf and plate buckets, Cork 11-bar chairs, a satinwood banded sofa table and a Killarney tray.
A selection of lots at Lynes and Lynes.
A 1775 Cork silver soup ladle by Stephen Walsh and a c1790 set of twelve Cork silver teaspoons by John Nicholson are each estmated at €1,000-€1,500. A set of nine similar vintage teaspoons with crests by John Nicholson have an estimate of €1,000-€1,200. Other lots of silver include a George II coffee pot, an early set of cased berry spoons, a collection of English silver cutlery and an Austro-Hungarian silver spirit kettle on stand with matching teapot and water jug.
The leading jewellery lot is an emerald and diamond bracelet (€3,000-€4,000) and there is a selection or rings, earrings, bracelets, pendants and necklaces in the auction. Persian rugs are very reasonably estimated and a c1785 longcase clock by Hercules Troy of Dublin with brass dial is estimated at €2,000-€2,500. The catalogue for the sale is online
Full Size Metal Coat of Armour on Stand UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 13,000
Luxury Dromoland Castle Hotel in Co. Clare is closing for a six month refurbhishment from this month. The largest redevelopment in its 63 year history as an hotel will cost an estimated €55 million. Next week auctioneer Aidan Foley will conduct a two day sale with 776 lots of bedroom contents, occasional furniture, curtains, rugs, wall hangings and commercial kitchen equipment. The catalogue for the sales, which get underway at 5 pm on November 9 and 10, is online. As our picture shows you might even find a suit of armour.
GEORGIAN FLAMED MAHOGANY TWIN PEDESTAL JUPE TABLE. UPDATE: THE CLOSING BID WAS 5,000
This twin pedestal Georgian jupe table is among the leading lot at the classic and contemporary interiors timed online auction by Mullen’s of Laurel Park, Bray, Co. Wicklow. The auction runs to the evening of November 8. This type of table, invented by Robert Jupe, is an expanding circular dining table. They were showcased at the Great Exhibition of 1851. This one is estimated at €5,000-€7,000.
Uccello by Louis le Brocquy UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD
Uccello, a beautifully simple elegantly sophisticated Aubusson tapestry by Louis le Brocquy heads the Design at the RHA auction by de Veres in Dublin next Tuesday (November 3). Commissioned in 1999 for the offices of A+L Goodbody by the architect Ronnie Tallon this large work of 13 square metres offers a splendid display of jewel like oranges in a cloud of greenery against a deep blue sky. This showstopper estimated at €100,000-€150,000.
A Murano glass ovoid table lamp. UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,400 AT HAMMER
The corporate law firm offices have undergone a redevelopment. The A+L Goodbody collection forms part of a very strong art section in this auction. A large part of the collection has been retained. Around 20 works of art have come to market. The selection of contemporary art on offer includes work by William Scott, Pat Scott, Sir Terry Frost, Donald Teskey, Michael Warren, Bridget Reilly, Hughie O’Donoghue, Barrie Cooke, Stephen McKenna, John Shinnors and others.
An Eames lounger, a Saarinen table and a Transaat chair by Eileen Grey are among the leading furniture highlights in this annual sale now on view at the RHA Gallery in Dublin.
Some of the most iconic designs of the 20th century can be seen. Work by renowned and innovative creators like Philippe Starck, Mies van der Rohe, Ico Parisi, Finn Juhl and Arne Vodder is on show here. There are Danish, Italian and French pieces from the 1960’s and ’70’s and design labels like Roche Bobois and Fritz Hansen.
The 1970’s R2D2 Droid Bar. UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,400 AT HAMMER
The catalogue cover lot is laden with retro appeal and looks like a Star Wars Droid. Estimated at €1,000-€2,000 the R2D2 Bar dates to the 1970’s and is a cellarette, though not one that many lovers of antique furniture might recognise. It was designed in the days when domestic robots on earth seemed too futuristic even to contemplate. At least in those more innocent times there was no need to worry about the threat of a hostile AI force attacking the entire globe or turning off all country’s freezers,
Offering many pieces that cannot be easily sourced and one off pieces that can transform a space this is a sale worth a serious look. With over 314 lots on offer it is on view at the RHA until next Tuesday. Timed online bidding is underway.
A Fabergé varicolour gold, rock crystal, mother of pearl and enamel sedan chair at Sotheby’s.
Meantime the pièce de resistance at Sotheby’s sale from the vaults of A La Vieille Russie in New York in December is rare Fabergé varicolor gold, rock crystal, mother of pearl and guilloché enamel model sedan chair. Estimated at more than $1 million (€890,000) it is one of only six known miniature sedan chairs by Fabergé. More than 300 museum quality works from the vaults with a combined estimate of more than $15 million (€13.39 million) will be offered.
Founded in Kiev in 1851 the family owned New York institution has shaped generations of collectors and major museum collections. In the future there will be greater emphasis on antique and period jewellery.
Two Figures by John Behan. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD AND IS NOW UNDER OFFER
Sculpture, silver or diamonds. The choice is yours at the online auction by Hegarty’s in Bandon next Wednesday (October 28) at 11 am. There are two fine bronzes by that most collectible of Irish sculptors John Behan, one of two bulls, the other of two figures. The estimates respectively are €8,000-€12,000 and €9,000-€12,000.
A substantial c1968 rococo style candlestick by Royal Irish Silver is estimated at €800-€1,000. It is based on an 18th century design and there is a similar Irish candlestick in the National Museum dating to 1745. A Cork silver sauce boat by John Warner dates to the late 18th century and has an estimate of €500-€700. A c1932 Irish silver dish ring by S H Waterhouse, Dublin is estimated at €600-€800. A pair of white gold diamond stud earrings has an estimate of €1,500-€2,000.
A silver sauce boat made in Cork by John Warner around 230 years ago. UPDATE: THIS MADE 900 AT HAMMER
Hugh Douglas Hamilton RHA (1739-1808) – Portrait of “Colonel Hugh O’Donel (1760-1799) sold for €77,000 at hammer.
This portrait of Colonel Hugh O’Donel by Hugh Douglas Hamilton was the top lot at Fonsie Mealy’s sale of contents from Newport House, Co. Mayo. It made a hammer price of €77,000. The post is derived from the Apollo Belvedere at the Vatican. In 1793 with the threat of a French invasion, O’Donel raised a company of troops and became Lieutenant Colonel of the South Mayo Militia. Two years later in 1795 he was elected to the Irish House of Commons representing Donegal town. Along with his brother, Captain James Moore O’Donel (also elected to Parliament in 1795) he joined the parliamentary faction who strenuously opposed the proposed Act of Union with Great Britain-saying he would never surrender Ireland’s legislative independence. For his passionate opposition, and the Militia, to the Act of Union he was dismissed by the government from his colonelcy in 1799. The Lord Lieutenant, Lord Cornwallis, who suppressed the Rebellion of 1798, had offered him a peerage to vote for the Union but he refused. Hugh O’Donel died M.P., in Tralee, Co. Kerry in 1799.
Among the other top hammer prices a Georgian gilt rococo mirror made €50,000; a set of Giant Irish Elk antlers made €46,000; Waiting for the Steamer, Aran Islands by Sean Keating made €40,000; a Georgian dining table made €9,500; a portrait by Hugh Douglas Hamilton of Captain Henry Charles Sirr made €9,500 and a Regency chandelier made €5,200.
John Astley c. 1756 (1724 – 1787) – Portrait of Thomas Pepper, of Ballygarth Co. Louth (1733-1790)
This portrait by John Astley of Thomas Pepper of Co. Louth made a hammer price of €11,000 at the opening day of Fonsie Mealy’s two day auction of contents from Newport House in Co. Mayo. It had been estimated at €3,000-€5,000. A pair of 19th century Meissen vases estimated at €4,000-€6,000 made €9,500 at hammer and a 1911-1915 bracelet set with 19 half sovereigns made €8,500. The 19th century Irish School Hillsborough family portraits made €7,000 at hammer as did Marnock’s Strand by Nathaniel Hone, a portrait of Thomas, Earle of Leghorn attributed to Pompeo Batoni and a Kilkee coastal scene by Nathaniel Hone. The auction continues at The Grace Hotel Westport and online today.
ATSUSHI KAGA (B.1978) – UNTITLED (2005)
This untitled work by Atsushi Kaga, originally from Tokyo and now living and working between Ireland and Kyoto, was the leading lot at Adams Mid Century Modern sale on October 20. It made a hammer price of €24,000 over a top estimate of €12,000. Brick Screen by Eileen Gray made €9,500 at hammer, a vintage steamer trunk by Louis Vuitton made €8,000, Tangram by Patrick Scot made 6,500, Sun from the Icarus series by Anne Madden made 6,500, a teak extending circular dining table by Hans Olsen made 5,500 and Farmhouse North Mayo by Donald Teskey made 4,600.