Irish Georgian marble fireplace the top lot at Lynes and Lynes

Antique Cork furniture, GAA memorabilia and a range of artwork are on sale, writes Des O’Sullivan.

An 18th-century marble fireplace will be the centrepiece of the sale at Lynes and Lynes in Carrigtwohill, Co Cork next Saturday at 11am.

The Irish Georgian breakfront Carrara and Giallo Antico marble fireplace is in original condition and complete with brass inset grate. It is estimated at €20,000-€30,000.

A pair of antique Irish cut glass urns at Lynes and Lynes.

Antique Cork furniture includes a Regency secretaire bookcase (€3,000-€5,000) and four early nine bar chairs (€400-€600). A Killarney wood tray inlaid with scenes of Muckross Abbey has an estimate of €150-€250.

The auction will include a lifetime collection of GAA hurling and football programmes to be sold in over 60 lots. The 1939 All-Ireland hurling programme in which Kilkenny beat Cork is estimated at €500-€700.

The 1939 All Ireland hurling final programme - a 12 page booklet printed with songs and ballads - at Lynes and Lynes.

This is a 12 page booklet complete with songs and ballads. There are match programmes from the ’40’s, ’50’s and ’60’s with estimates from 20 upwards.

The sale will offer a large collection of antique furniture and collectables.

There is artwork by Gretta O’Brien of various Cork scenes; blue and white Chinese plates; a pair of large 19th century Dresden vases and covers; a pair of antique Irish cut glass urns and covers, and a cased model of a sailing ship among just over 500 lots.

A Cork Regency secretaire bookcase at Lynes and Lynes auction.

Viewing from 10 am to 8 pm daily next Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

Celebration of Irishness at Adam’s 

Des O’Sullivan on the upcoming Basil Blackshaw studio auction

With 40 lots from the studio of Basil Blackshaw, including A view of Clare Island from Achill by Paul Henry; an evocation of a solo singer at the Queen’s Theatre in Dublin by Jack B Yeats, and an iconic portrait of poet Máirtín Ó Cadháin by Seán O’Sullivan, the upcoming James Adam sale amounts to a celebration of artistic Irishness.

Seán O’Sullivan’s iconic portrait of Máirtín Ó Cadháin at James Adam in Dublin.

Ó Cadháin (1906-1970) is regarded as the most original and powerful writers in the Irish language for many generations.

The portrait, estimated at just €4,000-€6,000, was reproduced in most of his published work from 1953 onwards.

It was used in an An Post stamp celebrating Celtic scholars in 2006.

The catalogue cover lot is Model Reading by Roderic O’Conor (€18,000-25,000), the Henry seascape is estimated at €40,000-60,000 and the Yeats at €50,000-80,000.

“Clare Island from Achill” by Paul Henry at James Adam in Dublin.

Estimates for the Blackshaw works vary from €500 to €10,000 for his portrait of Clint Eastwood. Adam’s sale is on March 29 at 6pm and is on view in Dublin from next Sunday week.