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One of a pair of satinwood inlaid side cabinets. UPDATE: THIS LOT MADE 2,300 AT HAMMER
A pair of exceptional satinwood wide cabinets will feature among the top furniture lots at Victor Mee’s auction of contents from the former Convent of Mercy at New Inn in Co. Tipperary on September 28 and 29. The catalogue features lots from other clients too. A total of 1230 lots will come under the hammer.
A 19th century oil lamp at Victor Mee’s timed online sale. UPDATE: THE CLOSING BID WAS €26
With €400 or even much less it will be possible to pick up a prized piece at Victor Mee’s timed auction of ceramics, glass and collectibles which ends from 5.30 pm tomorrow on August 10. A 19th century brass and ruby glass Corinthian column oil lamp has a starting bid of just €120, a ruby glass epergne starts at €80 and a figure of Scarlett from Coalport’s Literary Heroines series at just €100.
The auction offers figures by Royal Doulton, Lladro, Royal Worcester, Coalport, Franklin, Royal Minton, Staffordshire, Capodimonte and Hummel, there is spongeware and Belleek, Galway, Cavan and Waterford Crystal, Swarovski, ruby and cherry glass, various tea and part dinner services, Oriental zodiac cups, a Chinese lidded jar, vases, ornaments and even a Japanese lacquered wall plaque. Maybe fine dining at home will make a comeback. Until then pieces like many of the lots in this sale offer huge value.
A Coalport figurine of Scarlett UPDATE: THE CLOSING BID WAS €9
A set of vintage wishbone Danish dining chairs. UPDATE: THESE WERE UNSOLD
Danish wishbone chairs, bronze boxing hares, a 19th century French oak refectory table and a Black Forest musical chair are included among nearly 1,000 lots at online evening sales by Victor Mee on July 22-23.
There is nothing in this eclectic selection to prevent the imagination of a collector from soaring to new and unexplored heights. Where to place a pair of cast iron pier caps in the form of a stag standing on a ball? Maybe not to the taste of everyone but they can be yours for an estimated €1,000-€2,000. There is a similar estimate on a fine sturdy three seater cast iron garden bench, a pair of moulded sandstone lifesize models of Great Danes and a pair of 19th century wrought iron entrance gates.
French wrought iron glasshouse. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD
Hand cut granite gate posts, a 19th century sandstone trough, a wrought iron portable glasshouse, a pair of sandstone lattice urns and an early 20th century French wrought iron greenhouse are all on offer.
A 19th century brass bound campaign chest (€1,400-€1,800), a French William IV centre table with marble top (€800-€1,200), a 19th century lime washed oak chest (€600-€1,200), a walnut inlaid credenza with three glazed doors (€400-€800), a Regency rent table with leather top (€400-€800), a Victorian rosewood and satinwood inlaid side table (€350-€650), a pair of Art Deco bedside lockers (€350-€650) and a bank of four graduated drawers in the shape of drums €300-€600) are included among nearly 400 lots of furniture with estimates of from a little as €10 for an Edwardian three tier cake stand.
A set of eight vintage Danish wishbone dining chairs with woven rush seats carry an estimate of €1,000-€2,000. A 19th century Black Forest rosewood and burr walnut musical chair and table is slightly more expensive, at €1,500-€2,500. This inlaid furniture contains a hidden musical box.
Black Forest musical chair and table. UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,000 AT HAMMER
BRONZE STORKS. UPDATE: THESE MADE 650 AT HAMMER
This pair of bronze storks come up at Victor Mee’s summer garden sale on June 10 and 11. A total of 955 lots will come under the hammer. The storks come up as lot 58 with an estimate of €600-1,200. The catalogue is online.
Louis XV ormolu mounted desk at Woodwards. UPDATE: THIS MADE 650 AT HAMMER
A Louis XV ormolu mounted desk (€1,000-€2,000), a Sheraton inlaid bowfront sideboard (€600-€800), an Edwardian roll top desk (€750-€1,000), a small Irish Regency bookcase (€400-€500) and a pair of Edwardian demi-lune side tables €750-€1,000) give some indication of the value to be had at Woodwards online auction in Cork on March 29. Some or all of these pieces will be picked up for less than the low estimate. Antique furniture continues to represent very good value. More than 300 lots will come under the hammer.
The decorative interior sale at Victor Mee on March 26 and 27 can be viewed online too. More than 950 lots, headed by an antique Irish Georgian marble fireplace from the Castle Saunderson Estate in Co. Cavan and a cast iron gazebo, will come under the hammer over two online evening sales.
Irish Georgian marble fire surround at Victor Mee. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD
Early I9th century Irish giltwood convex mirror by Richard Jackson of Essex Bridge, Dublin. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD
From an early 19th century marble specimen table, an Irish giltwood convex mirror by Richard Jackson and a pair of Italian scagliola Sienna marble columns there is much to tempt serious collectors in pursuit of hard to come by pieces at the Bishop’s House auction in Newry by Victor Mee.
These are the sort of sought after pieces you do not come across everyday. The specimen table, for example, was last at auction at the Tandragee Castle dispersal sale for the Duke of Manchester in the 1950’s. It is estimated at €4,000-€8,000. The early 19th century mirror by Richard Jackson of Essex Bridge, Dublin, surmounted by an eagle and with sconces and ivy leaf decoration, is estimated at €2,000-€4,000 and the Sienna columns, each over a metre tall, at €1,500-€3,000.
19th century specimen marble table UPDATE: THIS MADE 33,600 AT HAMMER
Among more than 1,100 lots are a pair of carved mahogany urns on pedestals in the Chippendale manner (€3,000-€5,000), a hand dyed deep leather Chesterfield sofa (€2,000-€4,000), a pair of late 18th century Italian giltwood and painted torcheres on paw feet (€1,500-€3,000) and an Irish Georgian Cork serving table with gallery back and reeded apron (€1,800-€2,800).
There are club fenders and brass bound peat buckets, clocks and garnitures, gilded bronze vases, bronze Grecian lidded urns, a Killarney wood box, brass liturgical pieces, altar candle holders, 18th and 19th century artwork and an early 20th century Stations of the Cross, collectibles and garden pieces including a 19th century limestone sundial and stone troughs
Viewing for Victor Mee’s sale at the Mourne Country Hotel on the evening February 12 and 13 and online gets underway at the Bishop’s House today.
One of a pair of Italian scagliola marble columns UPDATE: THESE MADE 1,500 AT HAMMER
Italian marble topped console table UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD
An extraordinary array of contents, secular and ecclesiastical, from the bishop’s house of the Diocese of Dromore in Newry will be sold online by Victor Mee auctions on February 12 and 13. The diocese has been hit by various sexual scandals and harboured a paedophile priest for four decades. A redress scheme in operation has already cost several million.
As the interior photographs show, the Bishop’s House at Newry is positively regal. The house has already been sold and the rare treasures within have been accumulated by the diocese over many years.
An interior of the Bishop’s House at Newry showing part of the large dining room.
The magnificent contents include real rarities like a William IV console table with an Italian marble top, a twelve foot long dining table and a second console with provenance from Tandragee Castle. Tandragee was sold by the Duke of Manchester in the 1950’s to local businessman Thomas Hutchinson who funded Tayto and the castle houses the offices for Tayto Crisps.
Decanter presented to Pope Pius IX by the town of Velletri. UPDATE: THIS MADE 345 AT HAMMER
A decanter, presented to Pope Pius IX, who reigned for nearly 32 years from 1846, on his sacerdotal jubilee by the town of Velletri, Italy is among an exceptional collection of ecclesiastical items. The provenance for the decanter is impeccable.
An assortment of brass liturgical pieces includes altar candle holders, crucifixes and an elegant lectern. An early 20th century set of the Stations of the Cross are mounted in their original frames.
Interior photograph with lots to be sold
Interior highlights include a gilt Regency mirror by Richard Jackson of Essex Bridge, Dublin. This is similar to the one on display at the Waterford Treasures Museum. A pair of scagliola marble columns, each over a metre tall, lent an air of opulence to the Bishop’s House. A selection of art with religious themes including a depiction of the martyrdom of St. Andrew. Many of the artworks are contained within spectacular gilt frames. Garden pieces include a 19th century limestone sundial and a collection of 19th century stone troughs.
Viewing for this singular sale gets underway in Newry on Saturday February 8 and will continue on February 9 and 10. The auction will be held at The Mourne Country Hotel from 6 pm on February 12 and 13. It will also be online.
Harp Lager lantern UPDATE: THIS MADE 650 AT HAMMER
A Michelin Man, an oak and metal bound drink dispenser barrel on stand, glass sweet jars and even a vintage cassette player in the form of a petrol pump are among the lots at Victor Mee’s online Collectors Collection evening sale on January 28 and 29. From Tilley lamps to an early 20th century copper whiskey still and American number plates the auction of 1,423 lots offers a huge range of popular collectibles pieces. UPDATE: DATE CHANGED TO FEBRUARY 4 AND 5.
A day at the Races, 1885 style. UPDATE: THIS MADE 170 AT HAMMER
Dunville’s Whiskey, Capstan cigarettes, Fry’s Chocolate, Guinness toucans and Mick McQuaid plug tobacco advertisements are among the nostalgia generating lots on offer at Victor Mee’s Collector’s Collection sale online sale on January 28 and 29 at 6 pm on each day. More than 1,400 lots from an Ireland that is all but gone but still intensely familiar will come under the hammer. Sales of memorabilia, even those from beyond living memory like an 1885 Great Northern Railway advertisement for a special train to Baldoyle Races, remain enduringly popular. UPDATE: DATE CHANGED TO FEBRUARY 4 AND 5.
Murano glass and glided metal lily pad wall light originally from The Savoy Hotel London (€500-1,000) UPDATE; THESE WERE UNSOLD
Lily pad Murano glass wall lights once at the Savoy Hotel in London, a pair of gilded bronze tables in the Maison Jansen style, a silk and metal thread Oriental rug, a 1900’s Louis Vuitton travelling trunk and a rare pair of nearly life size wooden ancestral figures from Sulawesi Island, Indonesia all feature at Victor Mee’s spectacular end of year interiors online sale on December 30. More than 800 lots will come under the hammer and they will be on view in Cloverhill, Co. Cavan on December 28 and 29.
One of a pair of nearly life size wooden ancestral figures from Sulawesi Island Indonesia (€1,500-3,000).
UPDATE: THESE MADE 2,200 AT HAMMER
