Serving table, Keating portrait fetch £18,000
More than £500,000 was realised by Hamilton Osborne King at last month's furniture and fine art auction conducted in the RDS. The highest price was £18,000 for both an Irish 18th-century mahogany serving table and a Sean Keating portrait of a fireman.
A sum of £15,000 was paid for both a pair of early 19th-century rosewood and brassinlay fold-over card tables and a pair of Irish mahogany and brass-mounted, two-tier, circular dumb waiters, dating from circa 1800. Other prices at this sale include: £14,000 for a set of 12 mahogany dining chairs by James Hicks; £8,000 for both a mahogany secretaire bookcase from circa 1800 and a mahogany serpentine-front chest from circa 1780; £7,500 for a continental mid-19th-century carved giltwood bureau plat; £6,600 for Cam- era Man by Maurice MacGonigal; and £6,500 for a pair of 19th-century engraved glass and ormolu-mounted claret jugs by Elkington & Co.
1916 Proclamation sold for £26,000
AN original 1916 Proclamation of the Irish Republic was sold for £26,000 at Mealy's's two-day sale of books and related material in Dublin last week. The auction realised a total of £360,000. The bid for the proclamation was the highest of the auction, but a price of £21,000 was made by a collection of manuscript papers dealing with the four Lennox sisters and their families, including the Dukes of Leinster and the Conollys of Castletown House.
An archive of Flann O'Brien material sold for £16,000, a set of 12 prints of the Irish linen industry by William Hincks made £6,250, a 1795 first edition of Jonathan Fisher's illustrated Scenery of Ireland with the coronet of the first Earl of Charleville went under the hammer for £5,600, an early manuscript poem by W.B. Yeats fetched £4,600 and a 1633 first edition of Thomas Stafford's Pacata Hibernia went for £2,700.
Victorian three-door bookcase fetches £2,950
A Victorian three-door bookcase sold for £2,950 at last Sunday's auction on the premises of Town & Country in Dublin. Also at this sale, a Victorian mahogany extension dining table went for £2,000, a George III mahogany card table fetched £1,520 and a set of six Victorian carved walnut dining chairs realised £800.
Top price at Bert House goes to Ben Nevis oil
AN oil by Alfred de Breanski Snr, showing the valley of Ben Nevis, made the day's highest price of £17,000 at last month's sale in Bert House, Co Kildare. Conducted by Sheppard & Sons, the auction also saw a late 18th-century Irish mahogany bureau bookcase fetch £15,000, a pair of Purdy doublebarrel shotguns make £12,500, a Regency mahogany breakfront bookcase sell for £11,500, an oil called The Green Parrot by Franz Xavier Wolfe fetch £11,000 and In Charge by James Hardy Jr go under the hammer for £10,500.
Regency fold-over card table sells for £6,500
Three private bidders competed for a Regency fold-over card table which was offered for sale last week at Drums of Malahide; the successful purchaser eventually paid £6,500. A Regency mahogany breakfast table sold for £1,800, while a three-compartment overmantle mirror made £1,050, a William IV/Victorian bookcase sold for £900 and a set of four Victorian crown-back mahogany dining chairs fetched £600.
