Seaville House sale on view with 600 lots

The on-the-premises house-contents auction in Tramore next Monday (Jun 24) is now on view.

The 600-lot sale, by Waterford auctioneers, RJ Keighery, at Seaville House, Newtown Hill, Tramore, features antique furniture, art, collectibles and garden furniture.

Prime lots include a Victorian d-end dining table, with four extra leaves, for €2,000-€3,000.

There is a similar estimate on 10 Victorian buttoned roll-back chairs. A Connemara Scene, by Kenneth Webb, is estimated at €1,800-€2,500, and Morning, Co Clare, by Gerald Davis, is estimated at €200-€300.

A walnut bonheur du jour, or desk, is estimated at €1,500-€2,000, and an antique pine dresser has an estimate of €100-€150.

Collectibles include a crocodile-fitted travel bag by Mansfield of Dublin (€300-€400), an antique brass-bound,plate bucket and an old Irish cut-glass bowl.

Meanwhile, the Dublin-residence sale by Mealy’s, at the Conrad Hotel in Dublin 2, at noon tomorrow, features antique furniture, Irish and Victorian art; tribal art and collectibles, some of which were featured here last week. More than 450 lots, from four private collections, in Dublin and the Midlands, are on offer in a sale with everything from a Timor phallic guardian deity (€800-€1,200) and a Rajasthani carved window, to a Killarney table and a bronze by Patrick O’Reilly, entitled The Hand of God (€8,000-€12,000).

There are miniatures by Adam Buck, Irish and English silver; rugs; antique furniture; sculpture; ceramics; lighting and clocks.

Viewing for this auction continues today from 10am to 8pm at Herbert House, Herbert St, Dublin 2.