Gesso table tops €90k

AN Irish gilt and gesso side table made €90,000 to become the top lot at the James Adam’s Country House Collection sale in Slane Castle last Sunday and Monday.

The sale realised €1.4m at hammer and 80% of lots on offer sold. The 80% sell rate is consistent with latter day auctions in Ireland.

Managing director James O’Halloran commented: “The sale was fantastic, we have not had a consistently successful sale like that for quite a while”. The atmosphere on Sunday was very good and internet bidders played a big role. The only recorded Irish watercolour by J.M.W. Turner, which shows Clontarf Castle, sold for €65,000 over an estimate of €20,000-€40,000.