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    FONSIE MEALY’S THREE DAY SALE NOW ON VIEW IN CASTLECOMER

    Sunday, June 12th, 2022
    18th century carved gilt overmantle mirror Cahir Park House in Tipperary. UPDATE: THIS MADE 11,000

    WITH everything from tapestries to chimney pieces, art, jewellery and a Rolex Oyster watch the three day Chatsworth Summer Art sale by Fonsie Mealy on June 14, 15 and 16 has drawn collectible pieces from estates right around Ireland like Strokestown House, Co. Wexford, Cahir Park House, Co. Tipperary, the McAteer estate from Newcastle, Co. Down, Celbridge Lodge, Co. Kildare and many other properties.

    The most expensively estimated furniture lots are some 18th century overmantle and giltwood mirrors in a range from €7,000-€15,000.   Other top lots include a fine pair of William Kent style  carved giltwood console tables (€4,000-€6,000), a giltwood and gesso centre table (€3,000-€5,000) and a pair of ornate Victorian Gothic Coalbrookdale radiator covers with sienna marble tops (€3,000-€4,000).

    One of a pair of Victorian Gothic cast iron Coalbrookdale radiator covers. UPDATE; THESE MADE 3,600 AT HAMMER

    A c1720 Antwerp tapestry by Jacob Van Der Goten (€8,000-€12,000), an 18th century Flemish tapestry (€5,000-€7,000) and some wonderful chimney pieces will attract considerable attention for their rarity at this live and online sale.  Lots like a white marble inlaid chimney piece in the manner of Pietro Bossi (€5,500-€7,500), a carved white marble Portman fireplace (€3,500-€5,500) and an early Irish Kilkenny black marble chimneypiece (€3,800-€5,000) are not to be found every day. There is fine furniture, antique collectibles, silver, ceramics, art, miniatures, clocks, taxidermy, jewellery, carpets and light fittings in this treasure trove of a sale. Viewing is underway in Castlecomer.

    George I Kilkenny black marble chimney piece. UPDATE: THIS MADE 6,200 AT HAMMER

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    SELECTION OF ANTIQUE FURNITURE AT MARSHS SALE IN CORK

    Saturday, June 11th, 2022
    Louis XV style kingswood and brass ormolu mounted bombe shaped vitrine with Vernis Martin panels  UPDATE: THIS MADE 3,800 AT HAMMER

    A Louis XV style vitrine  and a Victorian ebonised credenza are among the prime lots at Marshs sale in Cork next Saturday (June 18).  Estimated at €2,500-€4,500 the kingswood and ormolu mounted bombe shaped vitrine on splayed legs is complete with 18th century French lacquer Vernis Martin panels.  There is brass and tortoiseshell boulle inlaid decoration on the credenza complete with gilt ormolu mounts and Sevres panels. It is estimated at €2,000-€3,000. There is a good selection of antique furniture including a Georgian corner cupboard (€1,200-€1,500), a French gilt upholstered five piece drawing room suite (€500-€1,000), a Victorian marquetry two door side cabinet (€2,000-€2,500), an unusual set of four Regency style upholstered window seats (€700-€1,000), a Georgian inlaid bureau bookcase (€500-€800) and a Georgian bow front sideboard (€400-€500).A four tier 28 branch glass chandelier is seven feet in height and will require a special setting to be displayed to spectacular effect.  It is reasonably estimated at €1,200-€1,500.  Equally imposing is a pair of matching cannons on carriages with an estimate of just €800-€1,000.  Collectibles include Waterford Crystal, silver, clocks, gilt mirrors, paintings, watercolours and prints.  The catalogue is online

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    ANYONE FOR A CONFESSION BOX?

    Friday, June 10th, 2022
    Gothic Oak paneled confession box. UPDATE: THIS MADE 560 AT HAMMER

    From confession boxes to church pews to marble pillars to brass candlesticks, teak tables, porcelain, plant pots, chairs and paintings the online sale of contents from St. Louis Convent, the Convent Chapel and The Red Brick in Monaghan offers a variety of unusual collectibles. The two day online sale with 744 lots by Milltown Country Auction Rooms gets underway at 11 am on June 11 and 12.

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    ANTWERP TAPESTRY AT FONSIE MEALY SALE

    Wednesday, June 8th, 2022
    Jakob Van Der Goten (1659-1724) – Orpheus Playing a Lyre, by a Water Garden with Canals, Fountain and Classical Buildings UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    This c1720 Antwerp tapestry by Jakob Van Der Goten comes up as lot 1470 at Fonsie Mealy’s Chatsworth Summer Fine Art sale on June 14, 15 and 16. Measuring 8’7″ x 13’8″ it was purchased in 1991 from the Marble Hall, Powderham Castle, Devon. It is estimated at €8,000-€12,000. A total of 1,476 lots of fine furniture, antiques, silver, ceramics, objets d’Art, paintings, Old Masters, clocks, taxidermy, jewellery, fireplaces, musical instruments, carpets and light fittings will come under the hammer. Viewing gets underway in Castlecomer on June 9 and the catalogue is online.

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    GIVENCHY COLLECTION SALES TO BEGIN THIS WEEK

    Sunday, June 5th, 2022
    Diego Giacometti designed door knocker  (€80,000-120,000). UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR €151,200

    The almost unbelievable style involved in owning a door knocker by Diego Giacometti speaks volumes about Hubert de Givenchy – a collector with a unique taste for mixing and matching modernity and classicism.

    Deeply rooted in the culture of his country the world renowned couturier always considered furniture in dialogue with works of art. His magnificent homes –  Hôtel d’Orrouer in Paris and Château du Jonchet in the Loire Valley – display the fruits of this hugely successful quest for an ideal of classical beauty. Starting this week the collection of Hubert de Givenchy comes up at four live auctions and two online sales at Christie’s in Paris.  With 1,229 lots of extraordinary variety and richness put together with impeccable good taste the overall estimate is in the region of €50 million. There are nearly 200 paintings including works by Joan Miro, Pablo Picasso, Claudio Bravo, Max Ernst and Kurt Schwitters: over 100 sculptures with examples by Alberto and Diego Giacometti, Francois Girardon, Francois-Xavier Lalanne and Janine Janet and more than 440 pieces of seat furniture by makers and designers from the 18th to the 20th century.

    A late 18th century desk with mechanism by David Roentgen (Louis XVI and the Count of Provence each
    owned a version, there is one at Buckingham Palace and at the Palace of Versailles. (€500,000-800,000). UPDATE: THIS MADE €1,750,000 AT HAMMER

    Online auctions – the art of living and the art of hospitality – get underway on June 8 and run to June 22 and June 23 respectively.  There will be four live auctions on successive days beginning with masterpieces on June 14.  With a remarkable gathering of nearly 800 pieces of French and European furniture Christie’s promise that these sales will be unmissable. Among masterpieces of classical furniture from the French Regency period to the Neoclassical and beyond is a Regence console from the collection of Coco Chanel  who frequently invited him for dinner.  A pot pourri vase is thought to have been acquired by the King of Naples around 1780 and a  pair of monumental girandoles attributed to Pierre-Philippe Thomire were made for Tsar Paul I of Russia.

     Louis XVI gilt-beechwood bergère stamped by N.-Quinibert Foliot, c1770 with fabric design by Georges Braque (€6,000 – 10,000). UPDATE: THIS MADE €157,500

    A Louis XVI bergere with a textile designed by Georges Braque is one example of his taste for re-upholstering antique furniture with modern textiles. He loved the colour green for its calming and relaxing properties and a natural sponge painted in green by Charles Sevigny is a nod to another master of the art of mixing modern and classical works. There are masterpieces of modern art from his friend and collaborator Alberto Giacometti whose Woman Walking is estimated at €20-€30 million. This piece greeted visitors to the first drawing room in the home of Givenchy and Philippe Venet on Rue de Grenelle.  A key painting by Joan Miro is titled Passage of the Migratory Bird and there are several works by Alberto’s brother Diego Giacometti (whose door knocker was at Château du Jonchet) and more contemporary pieces by Claudio Bravo and Francois-Xavier Lalanne. It promises to be a sale to remember, well worth exploring online.

    (See post on antiquesandartireland.com for March 10, 2022)

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    MURDERED PRIESTS PAINTING AT O’DONOVAN’S SALE

    Saturday, June 4th, 2022

    THIS painting of three catholic priests murdered by British Crown Forces a century ago comes up at O’Donovan’s sale in Newcastlewest, Co. Limerick onJune 11.  It emerged from the attic of an estate in Limerick along with ten editions of the South Western Command War News (August-October 1922) and four editions of the Limerick War News (July and August 2022).  Enniskeane native Fr. James O’Callaghan, cc Clogheen, Cork was shot dead in May 1921 aged 36;  Canon Thomas Magner (73), the parish priest in Dunmanway,  was murdered in December 1920.  Local man Tadgh Crowley was murdered on the same day. Fr. Michael Griffin (29) of Gurteen, Co. Galway was abducted from his house at Rahoon, Galway in November 1920.  His body was.  discovered six days later.

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    TEA TABLE WITH HISTORIC FAMILY CONNECTIONS AT HEGARTY’S SALE

    Friday, June 3rd, 2022
     EARLY 19TH CENTUY IRISH MAHOGANY FOLD OVER TEA TABLE. UPDATE: THIS MADE 700 AT HAMMER

    THIS c1820 tea table comes up at Hegarty’s online sale in Bandon, Co. Cork on June 7. Estimated at 800-1,200 it is from the Martello Tower at Cobh and the Haughton family collection. Benjamin Haughton of the well known Quaker family in Cork was an independent member of Seanad Éireann from 1922 – 1928. He was one of a small deputation of business people who went to London to meet with Prime Minister Lloyd George in 1920 in an attempt to seek peace in Ireland. His relative James Haughton was a prominent figure in the Hibernian Anti-Slavery Society. The sale will include a selection of antique furniture, silver, jewellery and collectibles including a number of lots from the Haughton family.

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    UNIQUE TABLE BY JOSEPH WALSH AT SOTHEBY’S NEW YORK

    Tuesday, May 31st, 2022
    Joseph Walsh – Unique “Lumenoria” Table. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    This unique Lumenoria table by Joseph Walsh comes up at Sotheby’s Important Design sale in New York on June 9 with an estimate of $150,000-200,000. This beautiful and dynamic dining table marks a pivotal moment in the career of celebrated contemporary Irish designer Joseph Walsh according to Sotheby’s. Since 1999, Walsh has been experimenting with laminating and bending wood, creating highly expressive and sculptural furniture and installations. Some of his career-defining commissions include work for the Embassy of Japan, the National Museum of Ireland, and the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire.  The catalogue notes that: “In his woodworking practice, Walsh infuses techniques from his broad and deep understanding of other traditional craft methods. This innovative approach to making yields masterfully crafted furniture as evidenced in this dining table. Here, Walsh has expanded his material experiments by combining a slowly hand-poured clear resin top over a custom freeform base, resulting in poetic interplay between the materials. “Each piece is unique, speaking of the materials, process and a moment in time,” reads his artistic statement for the series. This unique dining table presents as a visual marvel where light twinkles through the transparent top to rain down and animate the swirling ash wood base below”. It was acquired directly from Joseph Walsh by the present owner. The catalogue also features an Enignum II chair by Walsh with an estimate of 10,000-15,000. UPDATE: THE CHAIR MADE $12,600.

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    LARGE IRISH MIRRORS AT FONSIE MEALY’S JUNE SALE

    Tuesday, May 31st, 2022
    Pair of Irish carved giltwood compartmental Console Mirrors, UPDATE: THESE MADE 11,000 AT HAMMER

    This pair of Irish giltwood mirrors attributed to James Hicks of Dublin will feature at Fonsie Mealy’s Chatsworth summer fine art sale on June 14, 15 and 16. Each one is around eight feet high and crested with stylised shell and flowers. There is trellis work and interlaced ribbons and foliage on the outer panels and they are estimated at 7,000-9,000. The catalogue for this sale of 1,478 lots is online now.

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    COOL FOUNTAIN IN SEARCH OF WARM GARDEN

    Sunday, May 29th, 2022

    THIS exceptional three tiered moulded stone French fountain is the top lot at the summer garden sale by Victor Mee on June 15. The surround is decorated with shells and lion’s masks and is estimated at 5,000-10,000. The online sale of 430 lots features benches, planters, animal models, statues, gazebos and various objects designed to enhance the garden. UPDATE: THIS MADE 6,000 AT HAMMER

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