Art, Antiques and Collecting

The Auction Room: Essential news, views and features about buying - and selling - art, antiques and collectibles in Ireland and abroad

Brothers Sean and Michael Buckley outside their Sandycove auctioneering business which is due to close shortly after over 56 years in business. Photograph: Crispin Rodwell for the Irish Times

Going, going, almost gone: end of an era as Buckley Galleries set to close in Sandycove

Fine Art & Antiques
July 20, 2019

Buckley Galleries is closing its auction business after 56 years and nearly a million lots sold

Lot 480: Vivien Greene’s Belgravia townhouse interior from 1850, €6,000 - €8,000

Dolls’ houses: it’s a small world at Fonsie Mealy Castlecomer sale

Fine Art & Antiques
July 20, 2019

A collection of dolls’ houses once owned by writer Graham Green’s wife Vivien are to be sold along with miniature furniture

John Shinnors Lot’s Wife €18,000- €22,000, Dolan’s Art Auction.

What’s coming up in the auction rooms

Fine Art & Antiques
July 20, 2019

Religious statues and a photo album depicting Victorian country life

Lot 198, rare Padparadscha and diamond ring, €2,500-€3,000, O’Reilly’s

Neil Armstrong’s passport and rare pink sapphires for auction this week

Fine Art & Antiques
July 13, 2019

Sales results and forthcoming auctions

L’Isle Sur la Sorgue is a well known market town in the Vaucluse of Provence. Photograph: John S Lander/LightRocket via Getty Images

Bric- a-brac breaks: Where to find the best antiques markets on holidays

Fine Art & Antiques
July 13, 2019

Bored with sunbathing? Factor in a day at one of these flea markets instead

Decanter Man Andy McConnell

Antiques Roadshow’s ‘Decanter Man’ coming to Limerick in search of treasures

Fine Art & Antiques
July 11, 2019

At charity event Andy McConnell will give an appraisal on any interesting piece of glass

Eighteenth-century table achieved €3,800 against a reserve of €500-€800 through Adams.

Auction results and forthcoming sales

Fine Art & Antiques
July 6, 2019

Russian porcelain sells for four times its estimate

Lot 32: Included along with Mary Dorgan’s letters to her son are two amateur photographs depicting Winston Churchill and his daughter Mary Soames, £1,000-£1,500 Sotheby’s.

Letters from below stairs: an Irish maid’s view of life in Churchill’s household

Fine Art & Antiques
July 4, 2019

A collection of letters from Irishwoman Mary Dorgan to her soldier son include domestic details from Winston Churchill’s home

The rare Lewis Chessmen piece. Photograph: Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for Sotheby’s

Lost Lewis Chessmen piece bought for £5 sells for £735,000

Fine Art & Antiques
July 3, 2019

Antiques dealer acquired rare artefact in 1964 and was mostly kept in a drawer

Faunes et Chevres, Pablo Picasso signed linocut €5,400 (€400-€600) Morgan O’Driscoll

Signed first edition of Ulysses sells for €85k, strong price for Picasso print

Fine Art & Antiques
June 29, 2019

Auction results and what’s coming up in the sale rooms

Nine-foot Hunt or Wake table is seeking €1,000–€1,500 at Matthews Auction Rooms.

Space saving tables that fold up and away

Fine Art & Antiques
June 29, 2019

Hunt tables, breakfast tables and demi-lune tables are versatile for confined spaces in apartments and city homes

Silver Freemason’s trowel inscribed ‘Lodge 44 in Las Vegas Nevada’ is part of the Matthew’s sale, €60-€90

Slice of Masonic history unearthed in Co Meath auction

Fine Art & Antiques
June 27, 2019

Silver trowel found in a box of bric-a-brac reveals symbols of the brotherhood

The 1927 Humber 9/20 Tourer has a guide price of €10,000- €15,000.

Movie star car among wheel deals in Cavan

Fine Art & Antiques
June 22, 2019

Cars, bikes and motorcycles at Victor Mee; silver and figurines in Adam’s At Home sale

A tiny Tunbridge Ware sewing kit in the form of a grand piano achieved €2,400 (€200-€300) through Mullen’s of Laurel Park

Shells, Cohen’s bell and Paul Henry’s cottages: the best of the summer sales results

Fine Art & Antiques
June 22, 2019

Artworks by Seán Keating and Louis le Brocquy sold high and there was a glimmer of hope for brown furniture in Bray

James Joyce’s signature inside No 30 of the first print run of Ulysses.

Ulsysses first edition sells for €85,000

Fine Art & Antiques
June 22, 2019

The book was bought by a private Irish buyer and will go on display to the public

1.06ct, diamond ring €4,500–€5,500 at John Weldon

Family heirlooms, cameras and rare books: what’s coming up in the auction rooms

Fine Art & Antiques
June 22, 2019

Diamond rings, watches by Cartier and Rolex included in 390 lots at John Weldon

Ballynahinch by Douglas Alexander (€1,500-€2,500)

Happy hunting in prospect at sale of Prumplestown House contents

Fine Art & Antiques
June 15, 2019

Regency furniture made for Duke of Leinster among 700 lots up for auction

Matte white Himalaya Niloticus crocodile Birkin 35 with palladium hardware achieved £162,500 (£70,000-£90,000). Photograph: Christie’s

What it went for: Auction results

Fine Art & Antiques
June 15, 2019

Lynes and Lynes sale to include brass sundial by Daniel Voster and carved oak altar

A 1956 Remington typewriter owned by Lady Pamela Blunden (€100-€150) is among the items up for auction

Forthcoming auction offers Blunden sisters’ family heirlooms

Fine Art & Antiques
June 15, 2019

1956 Remington typewriter owned by Lady Pamela among old curiosities for sale

Sylvia Beach and James Joyce.

Ulysses first edition to auction for between €70,000 and €90,000

Fine Art & Antiques
June 8, 2019

Copy signed by James Joyce is from the earliest print run of the world renowned book

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