Sculptures could net €300k at auction

THREE sculptures discovered in Co Offaly are to go under the hammer at Sotheby’s auction house and could fetch up to €300,000.

The three sculptures date from the 1820s and only came to light when someone came into the Sotheby’s office in Dublin with pictures of them.

The three works – Die Spinnerin by German Rudolf Schadow, and Venus Italica and Hebe by Antonio Canova – were found in Annaghmore House in Tullamore.