Antiques: Oscar Wilde's desk and a royal carriage bag
Below left, the slope-front desk used by Oscar Wilde, above left. Right, an 18th-century Louis XV Cartel clock and matching barometer by Julian Le Roy.
Offering a range that spans everything from fossilised Irish elk horns to Oscar Wilde's desk, a landscape attributed to John Butts and a handbag owned by the last Queen of France heritage, history, beauty and rarity are not in short supply at Fonsie Mealy's summer fine art and antique sale in Castlecomer on Wednesday and Thursday (June 18 and 19).
Among many highlights are a pair of 19th-century terrestrial and celestial globes on stands by John and William Newton, London 1818 (€15,000-€20,000), a Louis XV clock and matching barometer by Julian Le Roy, Paris, 1686-1759, (€10,000-€15,000), a bronze The Cossacks Crossing the Balkans by Evgeny Alexandrovich Lanceray, 1848-1886, (€10,000-€15,000), a collection of 19th and early 20th-century erotic Indian miniatures (€7,000-€10,000) and a four-fold screen The Star of Bethlehem after Edward Burne-Jones (€4,000-€6,000).
