Art historian’s own collection up for sale at Mealy's sale in Dublin

Des O’Sullivan looks at sales of fine art and of modern Irish first editions.

The summer sale by Mealy’s in Castlecomer next Tuesday at 11am will include 150 lots from the collection of Professor Anne Crookshank, one of our more distinguished art historians, who is now living in retirement in Donegal.

The 660-lot auction offers treasures including a Meissen porcelain ewer emblematic of the element, fire (€7,000-€11,000); a painting of a wild boar attacked by a pack of dogs attributed to Franz Snyders (35,000-55,000), and a large, heavy Georgian carved white mantle piece.