Auction Results
A TOTAL of £180,000, including premium, was made at last week's auction at Mullen's of Laurel Park. The top price was £4,500 for a kingwood and marquetry bonheur de jour, while £4,200 was paid for a Georgian mahogany side-table and £3,600 for a 19th century Chinese Chippendale giltwood mirror.
A 19th century giltwood console table sold for £3,400, a Georgian mahogany bureau, circa 1800, made £3,200, an Edwardian mahogany sideboard fetched £2,800 and a Victorian walnut credenza sold for £2,700. A walnut bureau bookcase, an oil by Dermod O'Brien called Milking Cows in a Meadow, a 19th century satinwood demilune card table, a mahogany D-shaped commode and a Victorian boulle credenza all sold for the same figure of £2,600. Finally, a set of eight ash ladder-back chairs went for £2,400 and £2,200 was paid for both an Edwardian mahogany painted china cabinet and a Georgian oak dresser (circa 1780).
£5,200 for long-case clock in Limerick sale
THE country house sale conducted by Loughlin Bowe at Sunville House, Co Limerick, earlier this month saw private buyers paying most of the higher prices, such as £5,200 for a Georgian mahogany long-case clock dating from circa 1770 and signed Wm Thompson of Clonmel.
A pair of ebonised and gilt, metalmounted side cabinets sold for £3,350, a twotier fountain with shell reservoirs and cherub supports went for £3,900 and a mahogany circular dining table fetched £3,000. Other prices included: £1,860 for a coloured glass table lamp; £1,600 for a Victorian walnut teapoy; and £1,050 for a Louis XV-style gilt metal mantle clock.
Yeats watercolour is sold for £4,300
A J.B. Yeats watercolour called The Hurler made £4,300 and an oil by Edwin Hayes, Shipping Off Dublin Port, sold for £3,700 at the Adams salerooms in Blackrock, Co Dublin, recently.
Among the furniture lots, a set of seven Cork bar-back chairs fetched £4,700, a set of eight Victorian mahogany dining chairs sold for £2,600 and a Georgian mahogany gentleman's wardrobe went under the hammer for £1,150.
Gillespie landscape of the west sells for £3,050
LAST Sunday's auction conducted by Town & Country in a house on Clontarf Road, Dublin, saw a west of Ireland landscape by George Gillespie fetch £3,050. In the same sale, a Victorian mahogany bookcase sold for £2,850, a Victorian walnut loo table went under the hammer for £1,050 and a Victorian rosewood card-table made the same figure.
