Antiques: A Picasso etching, marine chronometers, bureau bookcase and Louis Vuitton vanity case
Marine chronometers at Lynes and Lynes.
Marine chronometers, a Picasso etching, a c1730 bureau bookcase or a modern burr poplar and satinwood side cabinet inlaid with mother of pearl? The choice is yours at upcoming sales at James Adam in Dublin on Wednesday (August 27) and Lynes and Lynes in Carrigtwohill, Co Cork, next Saturday (August 30).
The etching of a young couple by Picasso is the top lot at Lynes and Lynes. Published by Vollard in Paris in 1939 and signed in pencil from an edition of 260, it is from a private source in Cork.
The estimate is €5,000-€8,000. Lynes and Lynes will offer three ship chronometers, one by Whyte Thompson and Co, makers to the admiralty, Glasgow (€900-€1,200), another by Thomas Mercer (€700-€1,000) and a third (€300-€500) manufactured by the First Watch Company, Moscow.
Antique furniture is more difficult to sell nowadays. A c1730 bureau bookcase at the At Home sale at James Adam might break the mould. Capable of lending grace and utility to many modern homes, it features twin mirrored panel doors, a fall-front desk, shelves and drawers, and measures just 103cm wide. The estimate is €1,500-€3,000. By way of contrast, an inlaid demi-lune side cabinet by Restall Brown & Clennell at James Adam is a modern piece with an estimate of €2,000-€3,000.
With nearly 900 lots in total, each sale offers a wide variety of lots at affordable price points, online catalogues and in-person viewing.
Lynes and Lynes will include contents from the recently sold Montenotte House and lots from the estate of late surgeon Tom Burke and his wife Kay of Blackrock, Cork.
There are tables to choose from, including a large 19th-century dining table, a Cork Regency tea table and a Georgian wine table. There are Cork nine-bar chairs and arts and crafts dining chairs, a Cork Regency linen press and a fine painted cabinet.
The sale features silver and jewellery, a specialist collection of antique Continental dolls, and old advertising signs, including one for the Metropole Hotel in Cork. Viewing gets underway in Carrigtwohill today and continues all next week.
A pair of red-ground 19th-century Chinese silk scroll wall hangings and a George V silver epergne feature among the lots, adding interest to the At Home sale by James Adam in Dublin. The auction offers silver, furniture, a longcase clock, paintings, a 19th-century gilt surround continental headboard, sofas, rugs, lamps, mirrors and an Irish silver art deco-style three-piece coffee service.
Or how about a Louis Vuitton c1960 train vanity case identified as reference model M23820 (€500-€800), a 20th-century Aubusson-style needlepoint tapestry, an Anglo-Indian carved ebony side chair or a brass dinner gong?
Auctions like these offer endless variety and objects to suit all tastes. Go on. Be inspired....
