Revealed: Top lots as Cuskinny House contents up for auction

Rare Cork mirrors and clock at November 18 sale of collection from a home in Cobh, Co Cork, that's stepped in history

The hall at Cuskinny House with lots including a Cork clock. by John Elliot and a seascape by WJ Huggins.

A pair of fine antique Cork convex mirrors with a label for RW Clarke, a Cork longcase clock by John Elliot, a pair of Famille Rose Canton export vases and an 1837 maritime painting of the ship Madagascar with the white cliffs of Dover in the background by William John Huggins are among the top lots at an important country house contents sale by Lynes and Lynes in Carrigtwohill next Saturday (November 18).

On offer are contents from Cuskinny House, Cobh, home of Mrs Wanda Ronan — widow of noted Cork lawyer John Ronan — who died aged 101 last December.