Antiques in brief
Lots include a fine Victorian sideboard, antique bookcases, large pine presses and tables, chests of drawers, pedestals, church pews, books, pictures, china, glass and garden urns.
The catalogue for the sale will be available at the viewing on Friday, July 10 from 10 am to 8 pm. All lots are to be sold without reserve.
Morgan O’Driscoll’s latest online auction of Irish art runs until Monday week at 6.30pm.
The sale will be on view in Skibbereen from 11am to 5pm next Thursday and Friday and from 11am to 3pm on July 6. All lots can be viewed online at www.morganodriscoll.com
A collection of Irish and world coins will feature at an antiques fair at the Conyngham Arms Hotel in Slane, Co Meath tomorrow.
There is a large selection of Waterford Crystal as well as decor, jewellery, silver and porcelain and a guided tour of the Hill of Slane at 2 pm.
A diamond solitaire ring with platinum band was the top lot at RJ Keighery’s auction in Waterford last week. It made €2,500. A 1923 Sheffield silver tray sold for €1,800, a Waterford Crystal five branch chandelier made €1,500 and a half tester bed €1,400.
This month marked the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo (on June 18) and neither Sotheby’s nor Christie’s are immune to the marketing possibilities this involves.
A felt bicorne hat worn by Napoleon (£300,000-€500,000) comes up at Christie’s Exceptional sale in London on July 9. Sotheby’s will offer the campaign cloak said to have been used by Wellington during the Waterloo campaign (£20,000-€30,000) at a sale in London on July 14.
Sotheby’s will also re-launch its Irish art sales in London on October 21. Highlighting the sale will be Nude Girl Reading by William Orpen, estimated at £300,000-€500,000. Sotheby’s opened new premises at 27 Molesworth St, Dublin this week, having moved from number 16.
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