Zuccarelli work fetches £40,000 at Kilshane sale

A large pastoral landscape by Francesco Zuccarelli fetched £40,000, exactly the mid-point of its pre-sale estimate, at last Tuesday…

A large pastoral landscape by Francesco Zuccarelli fetched £40,000, exactly the mid-point of its pre-sale estimate, at last Tuesday's contents auction conducted by Mealy's at Kilshane House, Tipperary. This was one of the lots included by Ambrose Congreve of Mount Congreve, as was an ebonised Hague clock dating from circa 1675 and which sold for £13,500.

A higher price of £17,500 was achieved by a 19th-century Italian marble statue of a putto draped with an animal skin, while a Queen Anne walnut bureau bookcase went for £13,000. Other prices included: £12,000 for both a portrait of a gentleman by Jan de Baen (another lot from Mount Congreve) and a pair of 19thcentury gilt mirrors with coloured engravings in their upper sections; £9,500 for a 19thcentury marble side or centre table; £8,000 for an early Georgian gilt side table, probably Irish; and £7,500 for a pair of mustard ground carpets, probably French and in the Aubusson manner.