Sunday, November 4th
Dolan’s Art Auction, Castletroy Park Hotel, Limerick. 75 per cent of lots sold. Window Bouquet by Mark O’Neill, €5,000 (€4,500- €5,500); Currachs by the Shore by Maurice C Wilks, €2,500 (€2,500-€3,500); Flowers in a China Vase by Mat Grogan, €1,800 (€1,800-€2,500); The Sheep by Graham Knuttel, €1,400 (€700-€800); Festival Time by Carol Ann Waldron, €1,350 (€750-€1,000); Georgian Sitting Room by Norman Teeling, €700 (€750-€850); Girls in the Poppy Field by Thelma Mansfield, €700 (€750-€950).
Tuesday, November 6th
John Weldon Auctioneers, Temple Bar, Dublin. A 22ct gold medallion commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising, €2,700 (€2,500-€3,500); an 1990 Irish 50 ECU gold coin, €500 (€500-€700); a 1929, boxed, Vatican coin set, dated 1929, €540 (€500-€700).
Thursday, November 8th
Sotheby’s, New York. The Green Sofa by Sir John Lavery, $1.3 million ($700,000-$1 million)
FORTHCOMING AUCTIONS
Monday, November 12th
Mullen’s, Laurel Park, Woodbrook, Bray, Co Wicklow. Antiques auction at 11am. 800 lots.
Tuesday, November 13th
Oliver Usher Auction Rooms, Kells, Co Meath. Auction at 5pm featuring contents from the Parochial House, Ballinamore, Co Leitrim. A limestone baptismal font, €500-€700.
Tuesday, November 13th
Matthews Auction Rooms, Oldcastle, Co Meath. Auction at 6.30pm. 14 Irish Georgian and Regency marble panels (originally centre-pieces for fireplaces) to be sold individually with estimates of €200-€300 each.
Wednesday, November 14th
Auction of Magnificent Jewels at Sotheby’s, Geneva. A 1920s Cartier enamel, rock crystal and diamond brooch, consigned by an Irish vendor, €32,000-€37,000.
FORTHCOMING FAIRS
Saturday and Sunday, November 10th and 11th, 11am-6pm. Antiques Fair, South Court Hotel, Raheen, Limerick.
Further listings at myantiques.ie