Museum seeks sponsor for silver collection

A sponsor is being sought for an important collection of 107 pieces of Irish silver available to the National Museum of Ireland until the end of February.

After that date, the collection — capable of transforming the silver holdings at the Museum of Decorative Arts at Collins Barracks, Dublin, into the premier collection of its type in the world — will be broken up and sold.

The silver, from a private Dublin collection, contains all the principal styles of ornamentation from Rococo and early Georgian to Classical, Neo-Classical and Regency.