James Adam sale offers interesting and affordable antiques

The online-only sale, on Tuesday, June 11, will be the last At Home sale by Adam's before the summer break

The James Adam At Home online-only sale on June 11 offers interesting, affordable and collectible antiques and furnishings.

If you are searching for mirrors, Irish furniture, art or a piece of interesting silver there are good examples to be found at the James Adam At Home sale in Dublin on Tuesday (June 11). This online-only sale offers interesting, affordable and collectible antiques and furnishings.

The catalogue cover features an attractive giltwood mirror (€500-€800) and a giltwood and marble-topped console table (€1,500-€2,000). An early 19th-century circular wall mirror with a gilded and decorated frame is estimated at €2,000-€3,000 and a large overmantel with scallop shell and scrollwork cornice has an estimate of €1,500-€2,000.

 There is a similar estimate on a c1880 overmantel surmounted by a faience dish. A 19th-century Irish carved giltwood landscape mirror in the rococo style is estimated at €600-€1,000.

A Korean ebonised storage chest at Adam's.

Among the more expensive antique furniture pieces are a pair of George III dining room urns on pedestals with domed fluted covers and acorn finials, a pair of mahogany framed Gainsborough armchairs and a c1790 Irish sycamore and rosewood banded demi-lune pier table. 

All are estimated at €3,000-€5,000.

A pair of George III mahogany dining room urns on pedestals at Adam's.

Signed pieces include a Victorian love seat by Robert Strahan (€400-€600) and a pair of marquetry inlaid mahogany settees by the British maker James Schoolbred whose workshop was on Tottenham Court Road (€1,000-€1,500).

The selection of furniture ranges from a Georgian hunt table, a Dutch marquetry display cabinet and a Georgian bowfront sideboard to some Irish George III brass bound plate buckets, a Louis Quatorze walnut bureau de dame, a Victorian circular breakfast table and a Georgian slope front bureau.

The auction of more than 400 lots kicks off with a selection of garden furniture headed by a large Victorian cast-iron Warwick Vase garden urn (€2,000-€3,000). 

A pair of 20th-century pottery-waisted planters (€300-€500), garden benches, terracotta plinths, Italian terracotta lions and a Victorian cast-iron classical figure all feature.

Art offerings include landscapes and still lives, portraits and seascapes and the array of collectibles include a 19th-century French gilt and porcelain clock, a Waterford Crystal nine-branch chandelier and a large Edwardian hexagonal hall lantern.

A large Edwardian hexagonal hall lantern at James Adam.

A c1775 silver salver made in Cork by Stephen Walsh will attract interest as will an Irish provincial silver sauceboat struck "Sterling" and a pair of Irish George III silver oval trays. 

A 19th-century Irish landscape mirror in the rococo style at James Adam.

This will be the last At Home sale by Adam's before the summer break and it is on view at St Stephen's Green from 1pm to 5pm today and tomorrow and from 10am to 5pm on Monday. The auction begins to close from 11am on Tuesday.