AUCTION RESULTS

THE difficulty of providing accurate pre-sale estimates was well-illustrated at the auction held on the premises of James Adam in Dublin last Wednesday. A Regency mahogany sofa table (always a popular item in sales), which was expected to make £1,500-£2,000, eventually sold for the day's best price of £3,500.

Similarly, a Louis XVI-style bureau de dame and a set of six George IV mahogany rail-back dining chairs, both of which lots were expected to fetch £1,000-£1,500, each went for the somewhat higher price of £2,200. And a pair of George II silver table candlesticks went well over their pre-sale estimate of £800-£1,200 to make £2,300.

However, a seven-piece Louis XVI-style giltwood salon suite, which was estimated to make £3,500-£5,000, actually sold for £3,000, and a large Victorian mahogany oval telescopic-extending dining table with four extra leaves made £2,900, just under its lowest estimate of £3,000.

A Regency inlaid rosewood rectangular folding-top card table made its lowest estimate of £2,500, and a Victorian inlaid walnut rectangular breakfront credenza sold for £2,200 (estimate £2,500-£3,500).

Other prices at the same sale: £2,000 for a matched pair of Victorian Louis XIV boulle-shaped rectangular folding-top card tables; £1,900 for two large Victorian cast-iron Campagna urns; and £1,800 for a 19th century Louis XVI-style occasional table.