AS part of this year's Kerrygold Horse Show, an antiques and interiors show is being held in the RDS it will be open daily from Wednesday to Sunday, August 7th-11th, between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m.
According to the event's organiser, Louis O'Sullivan, there will be "a good selection of exhibitors about 40 in all from both sides of the business, and there will be something at the antiques and interiors show for everyone visiting the Horse Show."
Antique furniture, says Mr O'Sullivan, will feature particularly strongly. Gateway Antiques of Francis Street in Dublin will have an early 18th century oak coffer and a William IV inlaid, round mahogany table. Kevin Jones, also of Francis Street, will be showing Victorian dining room furniture, as well as a bureau bookcase dating from circa 1800, while Roxanne Moorhead, from the same street, will have mainly 19th century items.
Carol O'Connor will be travelling from Adare, Co Limerick, and bringing mostly Regency dining room furniture (as well as some silver and jewellery) and Oman Antique Galleries of Capel Street, Dublin, will showing predominantly Victorian and Edwardian dining room furniture.
Upper Court Manor Antiques of Francis Street, Dublin, and Freshford, Co Kilkenny, expects to display Regency, Victorian and Edwardian furniture on its large stand.
While, not surprisingly, antique furniture will be a dominant theme at the show, visitors can expect to find many other decorative pieces for the person and the home. Carol Beggs from Whitehead, Co Antrim, for example, will be showing contemporary Mexican jewellery all of it in silver mined from the south of the country. "The designs are fantastic," she promises "and the prices are very reasonable." Bracelets, chokers and earrings are among the selection of items chosen during her buying trips to Mexico.
Antiquarian bookseller Tom Doyle from Magheramore, Wicklow, will be presenting a good selection of 19th and 20th century equestrian books, appropriately chosen for Horse Show visitors. He will also have a range of first edition books and a wide choice of Irish interest titles, including history, literature and topography.
Sherburn Antiques from Donegall Pass, Belfast, will have much Victorian gold and silver jewellery everything from Albert chains to sovereign cases. Finally, J.W. Weldon of Clarendon Street, Dublin, will be showing a fine selection of mid 18th century Cork silver. Particularly rare items include a silver soup ladle, made by William FitzGerald of Limerick, circa 1790, and a Cork freedom box, made circa 1775 by William Reynolds.
Mr Weldon will also have a diamond line bracelet of eight carats and dating from the early 1920s and an emerald and diamond necklace from circa 1885-90.
