Wednesday (November 30th): Victor Mitchell Auctioneers, Mount Butler, Roscrea, Co Tipperary. A pair of armchairs by Butler of Dublin €6,000 (€4,000-€5,000); pair of torchières by Butler of Dublin €2,500 (€2,000-€3,000); set of entrance gates by Turner €4,300 (€4,500-€5,500).
Tuesday and Wednesday (December 6th and 7th): Mealy’s winter and fine art sale, Castlecomer, Co Kilkenny. A pair of silver cruet sets, London, 1807, by Paul Storr €11,000 (€15,000-€20,000); Georgian mahogany revolving rent table €9,000 (€10,000-€15,000); pair of silver meat dish covers, made in London for William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire €5,500 (€5,000-€7,000); an early Irish pub mirror for Mitchell’s Old Irish Whiskey, Belfast €3,300 (€3,000-€4,000); Irish silver basting spoon, made by the 18th century Limerick silversmith Joseph Johns €1,700 (€1,200-€1,700); a silver crested nutmeg grater, London 1808, by T Phipps and E Robinson €1,100 (€350-€500). After the auction, a Killarney Ware davenport sold for €18,000 (€18,000-€25,000).
Wednesday (December 7th): Ross's Auctioneers, Belfast. The Casualtyby Jack B Yeats £70,000 (£75,000-£80,000).
FORTHCOMING AUCTIONS
Tomorrow: Whyte’s art for Christmas auction at 2pm, Freemasons Hall, Molesworth St, Dublin 2. Over 300 lots with estimates from €50 to €5,000. Catalogue available online at whytes.ie.
Tuesday (December 13th): Adams Blackrock, 38 Main Street, Blackrock, Co Dublin. Antiques auction at 11am. Furniture, silver, pictures – including items from the estate of the late judge Hubert Wine.
Thursday (December 15th): charity auction in aid of Dyspraxia Association of Ireland, 15 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2 at 8pm. Paintings by dozens of Irish artists; and tie worn by Taoiseach Enda Kenny for his televised “state of the nation” address last Sunday.
Friday (December 16th): Sheppard's Irish Auction House, Durrow, Co Laois at noon. Charity auction in aid of restoration work at Dublin's Christ Church Cathedral. Over 700 donated lots with no reserves and no fees, including: Michael Flatley's first painting, an oil tap-danced onto canvas, titled I (€3,000-€5,000); a pedigree greyhound (€1,000-€1,500); a day's deer-shoot on a Wicklow estate (€200-€300); a green velvet hat by milliner Philip Treacy (€800-€1,000); a tutu worn by Irish prima ballerina Monica Loughman during her performance of Paquitawith the Perm State Russian Ballet Company (€500-€1,000). Catalogue available online at sheppards.ie.
FORTHCOMING FAIRS
Today and tomorrow: Francis Street Christmas Fair, hosted by shops in Dublin’s “antiques quarter”, Francis Street, Dublin 8. Saturday 10am-6pm, Sunday 1pm-5pm.
