A GEORGE III Sheraton period inlaid mahogany sideboard, with a brass gallery back, sold for £10,000 in Mealys's sale at Borleagh Manor last Tuesday. This was the first country house sale of the year and it attracted crowds of private buyers as well as trade buyers from all over the country and from the UK.
Other notable prices were: £8,000 for a pair of signed early Victorian cast iron console tables, in the rococo style with serpentine shaped marble tops; £7,500 for a pair of 19th century gilt, metal mounted kingwood vitrines - complete with a auctioneer's bill of sale from P.J. Walsh & Sons, dated 1909; £5,750 for an early 19th century oval Irish mirror; a large Meissen porcelain vase sold for £4,500; and a French bronze and gilt metal torchere fetched £4,200.
Among the paintings, George (AE) Russell's Children in the Woods was knocked down at £4,000.
A mahogany boudoir baby grand piano by the London firm, George Roberts & Sons sold for £3,000; a George III inlaid mahogany fold over card table made £2,900; a 19th century terrestrial globe, by Malbys of Dublin, dated 1858, made £2,800; a 19th century Irish carved giltwood overmantel in the Chinese Chippendale style, with the trade label of E. Butler, Bachelors Walk, made £2,800; a near matching pair of George III inlaid mahogany demi lune side tables sold for £2,600; and a sandstone sundial with a bronze dial, the base decorated with fountain mask heads, also made £2,600.
A Borroughs & Watts full size snooker/billiards table made £2,000 and the same price was achieved for a Hepplewhite period mahogany cheval mirror.
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