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WILLIAM IV TABLE WITH SPECIMEN MARBLE TOP MAKES 22,000 AT MEALY’S

Thursday, April 5th, 2012

This William IV centre table with specimen marble top made 22,000 at Mealy's.

This Robert Carver landscape with three mirror panels in a Georgian giltwood frame made 20,000 at Mealys.

A William IV centre table with specimen marble top was the top lot at Mealy’s sale in Castlecomer this week. Estimated at just 2,000/3,000 the table sold for a hammer price of 22,000. The top, which had not been seen on the auction market before, is inlaid with a scallop shell and three fish and an outer variegated marble band.

At the same sale a landscape with figures by Robert Carver (c1730-1791) sold for 20,000. Originally in the collection at Westport House, Co. Mayo the painting surmounted a three panel mirror in a Georgian giltwood frame with egg and dart moulding. The two day sale of over 1300 lots was 70 per cent sold and realised approximately 520,000 at hammer.

A landscape with travellers resting attributed to Jan Breughel made 15,500, a pair of 19th century kingwood and marquetry fold over card tables made 8,000 and an architectural capriccio labelled Circle of Ghisolfi made 5,600.

No less than 1,000 bidders registered for the sale, 500 of them on the internet. The auction was 70 per cent sold and brought in 520,000 at hammer.

(See post on antiquesandartireland.com for March 31, 2012)

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SPRING INTO MEALY’S AUCTION AT CASTLECOMER

Saturday, March 31st, 2012

The Spring fine and decorative art auction at Mealy’s, Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny on April 3 and 4 offers a variety of interesting opportunities for collectors with more than 1,300 lots. Among the lots to be sold on day one are are silver, jewellery, glass, vintage fashion, scientific instruments, light fittings and a collection of Irish whiskey will . On April 4 the sale is of period furniture, paintings, carpets, garden furniture and prints. The catalogue is on-line. Here is a small selection:

A pair of Gothic style carved peat buckets in the George III style (2,000-3,000). UPDATE: THESE WERE UNSOLD.

Inlaid and crossbanded mahogany ladies' work table George III period, (1,000-1,500). UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 1,200

17th CENTURY FLEMISH SCHOOL St. Peter, a half length portrait, oil on canvas. (800-1,200). UPDATE: THIS MADE 650

An exceptional pair of serpentine shaped kingwood and marquetry fold over card tables, 19th century. (8,000-12,000) UPDATE: THESE SOLD FOR 8,000.

This pair of c1758-65 Derby Figures, The Ranelagh Dancers, was once in the collection of Sir John Gielgud. (300-500). UPDATE: THESE MADE 300.

An Excelsior cylinder gramophone with Edison and other discs (300-500). UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

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WILLIAM IV LIBRARY CHAIRS AT HEGARTY’S, BANDON

Monday, March 19th, 2012

A pair of William IV library chairs will be among more than 100 lots of furniture at Hegarty’sauction in Bandon, west Cork on March 25 at 3 p.m. They are estimated at 4,000-6,000. English and Irish silver, collectibles, mirrors, porcelain and art will be among more than 300 lots on offer. Here is a small selection:

One of a pair of Irish William IV library chairs estimated at 4,000-6,000. UPDATE: THESE WERE UNSOLD BUT ARE UNDER NEGOTIATION AT AROUND 3,000.

A Victorian mahogany hallstand with mirror and marble top is estimated at 1,000-2,000. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 1,400.

This pair of French bedside lockers is estimated at 600-900. UPDATE: THESE MADE 900.

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IRISH SIDE TABLES SELL AT CHRISTIE’S IN LONDON

Friday, March 16th, 2012

THIS IRISH GEORGE II MAHOGANY SIDE TABLE CIRCA 1760 made £46,850.

THIS IRISH GEORGE II MAHOGANY SIDE TABLE CIRCA 1760 made £39,650.

Antique Irish side tables made prices ranging from £31,250 to £46,850 at Christie’s in London on March 16. At the same sale a late 19th century Irish ormolu hexagonal hall lantern once at Castle Hyde in Fermoy, Co. Cork sold for £9,375. Last sold at Christie’s in 1993 it was from the property of the late F.C. Quinn, Mount Kennedy House. Co. Wicklow and featured in a sale of three private collections.
The most expensive table was a c1760 Irish George II table with lion mask frieze. It made £46,850. A table of similar vintage with scallop shell frieze made £39,250. Both had been estimated at £40,000-60,000. An Irish George II side table with later breccia marble top above a frieze once in the collection of Simon Sainsbury made £31,250 over an estimate of £20,000-30,000.

THIS IRISH GEORGE II MAHOGANY SIDE TABLE CIRCA 1740-60 SOLD FOR £31,250.

THIS IRISH ORMOLU HEXAGONAL HALL LANTERN LATE 19TH CENTURY made £9,375.

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THE REMARKABLE GUNTER SACHS COLLECTION AT SOTHEBY’S

Monday, March 12th, 2012

Andy Warhol Flowers acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas (£3,000,000-4,000,000). Click on image to enlarge. UPDATE: THIS MADE £3,737,250.

Artworks and objects from the remarkable collection of the late playboy, photographer and style icon Gunter Sachs will be offered by Sotheby’s in London on May 22-23 next. More than 300 lots are on offer in a sale expected to make over £20 million. Collecting categories from Surrealism and Nouveau Realism, to Pop Art, Art Deco, Furniture and Graffiti and estimates are from £50 up to £3 million. In his capacity as a collector he was both passionate and a pioneer who accumulated a renowned avant-garde assemblage of art and furniture over 50 years. He believed that art should be lived with.

Cheyenne Westphal, Chairman of Contemporary Art Sotheby’s Europe, said: “Sotheby’s is tremendously privileged to have been entrusted with the sale of this remarkable collection, which truly captures the essence of Gunter Sachs’ life in the 1960s and 1970s and reveals his little-known side as one of the most visionary and influential collectors of the 20th century. The confluence of zeitgeist, exceptional provenance and arresting images of style-icon Gunter Sachs and movie star Brigitte Bardot – his second wife – by the hottest artists and most accomplished photographers of their time, including Andy Warhol and Richard Avedon, makes this assemblage among the most desirable single owner collections ever to come to market.”

At the core of the collection is an exceptional group of Pop Art masterpieces by Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselman and Roy Lichtenstein acquired in the late ’60’s and early ’70’s. In 1972 Sachs presented Warhol’s first large exhibition in Europe in Hamburg. Not a single picture sold on the opening night so Sachs secretly purchased half the works to save the embarrassment of admitting this to his friend Andy. Years later Sachs thanked the people of Hamburg for their then still-dormant interest in Pop Art, enabling him to make one of the smartest collecting decisions of his life. Warhol’s flower painting is one of the only six works in this format. There are landmark pieces of 20th century design, including work by artisan furniture makers like Louis Marjorelle, Emille-Jacques Ruhlmann, Edgar Brandt and Diego Giacometti.

UPDATE: – The Evening Sale of the Gunter Sachs Collection brought IN £35,628,250 – well above the pre-sale high estimate of £25 million. Over 90% of lots were sold.

Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann Secrétaire desk 1928 (£300,000-400,000), Click to enlarge. UPDATE: THIS MADE £361,250.

Lucio Fontana Concetto Spaziale 1961 (£700,000-900,000). Click to enlarge. UPDATE: THS MADE £802,000

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TEFAF SILVER JUBILEE AT MAASTRICHT

Sunday, March 11th, 2012

Pair of blue and white pear-shaped bottle vases Kangxi at Kunsthandel Jacques Fijnaut bv Silver & Works of Art.

With an insistence on quality underpinnings its success TEFAF, the European Fine Art Fair, celebrates its silver jubilee at the Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre in The Netherlands from March 16 to March 25, 2012. This year there is a spectactular new entrance hall with a light installation by artist Leo Villareal.

Two-fold paper screen Japan,Edo period, 17th century at Gregg Baker Asian Art.

A special silver jubilee book, Celebrating the Best, 25 Years of TEFAF Maastricht, published to mark the Fair’s Silver Jubilee, looks at its part in what has been a turbulent quarter of a century in the history of the art market. Authors, Paula Weideger, Will Bennett, Diana Cawdell and Gareth Harris, have talked to the dealers who founded the Fair, those who work behind the scenes, some of the private collectors and museum curators who buy there, people of Maastricht and others who have contributed to its success.

There will be 260 art and antiques dealers from Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Korea, Monaco, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States and Uruguay at TEFAF.

(See posts on antiquesandartireland.comfor January 5 and January 18, 2012).

Lucas Cranach the Elder (Kronach 1472-1553 Weimar) Tondo of Martin Luther Oil on wood, diameter 12.5 cm at Senger Bamberg Kunsthandel.

Pierre Hache (1703-1776), in the workshop of Thomas Hache (1664-1747) Commode with three drawers and a marquetry top France, Louis XV period, circa 1730-1740 at Galerie Perrin.

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JAMES ADAM SALE IN DUBLIN

Thursday, March 8th, 2012

The James Adam auction of 685 lots in Dublin on March 14 features art, silver, porcelain including Japanese and Chinese examples, antique furniture and some glass. Here are a some of the lots. The catalogue is on-line.

A Famille Rose "Butterfly" vase (2,000-3,000). UPDATE; THIS SOLD FOR 3,000.

A mahogany and satinwood inlaid longcase clock, Irish 19th century with brass dial signed Michl Archadekin, Dublin (1,000-1,500). UPDATE: THIS MADE 850.

A George III Irish circular dish ring, Dublin 1796, mark of Richard Williams (3,000-4,000). UPDATE: THIS MADE 4,600

A FRENCH 18TH CENTURY PROVINCIAL OAK RECTANGULAR SIDE CABINET (2,000-3,000). UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD.

ERSKINE NICOL RSA ARA (1825-1904) Study of Sir Walter Scott, watercolor (400-600) UPDATE: THIS LOT WAS WITHDRAWN.

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SHIP’S MANIFEST LINKS TO ANTIQUE BUTTER TRADE

Monday, March 5th, 2012

An historic ship’s manifest at Marshs auction in Cork on Saturday, March 10 harks back to the days when the Cork Butter Exchange was the largest butter market in the world. Butter from Munster’s rich dairyland was exported in huge quantities from the city. A framed manifest dated August 17, 1785 at the auction contains details of one such shipment. It details the export of about 50 firkins of new loose butter “in good order and condition” shipped by William Crawford of Cork to London. A firkin is an old unit of measurement equivalent to about a quarter barrell. It was sent on a vessel called the Thomas anchored in the river of Cork. The manifest is signed by both William Crawford and Sam Seldon, skipper and master of the Thomas. The freight charge was 25 shillings. Cork city retains a Butter Museum in Shandon to this day. The sale features a selection of antique furniture, porcelain, clocks, books and collectibles.

The 1785 ship's bill of lading at Marshs. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 500.

This vitrine is at Marshs auction in Cork on March 10. UPDATE: It sold for 1,000 euro after the auction.

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RICH SELECTION OF IRISH SIDE TABLES AT CHRISTIE’S

Monday, March 5th, 2012

This c1760 Irish table with lion mask frieze is estimated at £40,000-60,000. Click on image to enlarge. UPDATE: IT MADE £46,850.

A c1760 Irish side table with scallop shell frieze is estimated at £40,000-60,000. click on image to enlarge. UPDATE: IT MADE £39,650.

A particularly rich selection of Irish side tables will feature at a sale at Christie’s in London on March 16. There are 56 Irish lots in the sale of three collections, including Mount Kennedy in Co. Wicklow, at King St. The total number of lots on offer is 316. Irish pieces include tables, plate buckets, silver, delftware, two Malton prints, chairs, mirrors and a jardiniere. A c1760 George II mahogany side table with carved gadrooned border and lion mask has an estimate of £40,000-60,000. Another Irish George II side table of the same vintage with a trailing vine-leaf carved apron centred by a scallop shell between flowerheads, on acanthus-carved cabriole legs, on claw feet carries a similar estimate. A marble topped c1740-60 Irish side table once in the collection of Simon Sainsbury is estimated at £20,000-30,000.

A c1750 Irish side table modified around 1830 with carving added to the side is estimated at £30,000-50,000. The frieze is carved with the crest of the Creagh family of Cork and Clare.

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ANTIQUE CORK FURNITURE AT LYNES AND LYNES

Saturday, March 3rd, 2012

Antique Cork furniture at the Lynes and Lynes auction at East Link Business Park, Carrigtwohill, Co. Cork on March 10 includes side tables and a linen press. The sale of 250 lots includes a number of Cork pieces includes side tables with estimates from 400 to 1,000 and a Georgian linen press estimated at 1,000-1,500. There is an Irish Regency library chair, an antique dining table, a George III carved marble fireplace tablet, several antique chests of drawers and a 19th century brass bound military chest. The auction includes silver, Waterford glass, books, paintings and a pair of blue and white Chinese lidded jars. The catalogue is on-line. Here is a small selection (click on any image to enlarge):

A George III marble fireplace tablet at Lynes and Lynes is estimated at 1,500-2,000. UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,400

This pair of Chinese blue and white lidded jars is estimated at 300-500. UPDATE: THESE SOLD FOR 500

A Georgian Cork side table is estimated at 600-1,000. UPDATE: THIS MADE 600

This 19th century military chest is estimated at just 200-300. UPDATE: THIS MADE 440.

An Irish Georgian linen press at Lynes and Lynes (1,000-1,500). UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 850.

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