Dali sculpture top lot at Adam’s interior auction

Salvador Dali’s Le Cheval a la Montre Molle (Horse Saddled with Time) is at James Adam on June 22 estimated at€11,000-€15,000.

SALVADOR Dali’s bronze sculpture Le Cheval a la Montre Molle (Horse saddled with time), is the top lot at the next James Adam Sunday Interiors auction in Dublin on Sunday week at 11.30am Signed Dali to the right hind leg and numbered 274/350 the work, with green and gold patina, carries the foundry mark “C Camblest 1981”. The original was first conceived and cast in 1980. It is estimated at €11,000-€15,000.

The auction of fine period silver, furniture, paintings, carpets, porcelain and decorative arts includes contents from Deepwell House, Blackrock, Co Dublin, home of the late businessman and collector John Reihill.

A Roderic O’Conor landscape from his collection sold for €210,000 at the latest James Adam sale of Important Irish art on May 28. The top silver lot, an Irish George II beer jug by John Hamilton of Dublin, is estimated at €5,000-€8,000. A diamond fur stone ring is estimated at €8,000-€1,200 and Sir Gerald Festus Kelly’s Portrait of a Lady Seated has an estimate of €3,000-€5,000.

The sale features around 165 lots of furniture. Collectibles include The Bewley’s Clock, a 19th century bracket clock by McMaster and Son, Grafton St, Dublin, purchased for his office by Ernest Bewley when he opened his landmark cafe on Westmoreland St in 1896. It is estimated at €1,500-€2,500.

The auction is on view from 9.30am to 5pm next Thursday and Friday and from 11am to 5pm on this day week.