8 October 2013 - Fine Art Sale

#0225

Lot 111/0225

SOLD Hammer price €300

A pair of early 19th Century Irish mahogany ladder back Dining or Side Chairs. (2)

Lot 112/0225

SOLD Hammer price €460

An unusual 19th Century circular rosewood Dining Table or Centre Table, with attractive marquetry top decorated in various woods with flowers and butterflies, and on a triform base with ebonised supports and stretchers, 107cms (42″) diameter. (1)

Lot 113/0225

SOLD Hammer price €190

A very good early 19th Century brass bound Vanity Box, with velvet mounted leather interior, and jewellery side drawer, the brass locks signed Hobbs & Co., London. (1)

Lot 114/0225

SOLD Hammer price €220

A large Regency period rosewood brass inlaid four compartment Tea Caddy, with two turned handles, lacks two glass mixing bowls, 40cms (15 3/4″) long; 27.5cms (10 3/4″) deep; 17.5cms (7″)high. (1)

Lot 115/0225

SOLD Hammer price €170

An unusual early 19th Century casket shaped decorated Tea Caddy, the lid painted with classical ruins, the remainder with panels depicting town scenes, windmill, castles, boats etc., 36cms (14 1/4″) long. (1)

Lot 116/0225

SOLD Hammer price €210

An attractive Victorian burr-walnut Writing Slope, with wide kingwood crossbanding, the slope top with elaborate brass, ebony and ivory escutcheon, and with velvet writing surface. (1)

Lot 117/0225

SOLD Hammer price €130

An early Victorian burr-walnut Vanity Case, the velvet lined lid with concealed mirror, and with drop front revealing two jewellery drawers, brass handles and fittings, and mother-o-pearl escutcheons. (1)

Lot 118/0225

SOLD Hammer price €130

A fine painted Oriental lacquer octagonal shaped Table Box, decorated with figures, birds, flowers, pagodas, boats etc, with a fitted interior (dam.) with lift up tray and front frieze drawer on carved giltwood feet. (3)

Lot 119/0225

SOLD Hammer price €940

A very fine 19th Century Music Box, the rosewood body with boxwood inlay and walnut crossbanding, the lid inlaid with musical trophies, the Swiss made works playing eight airs with three bells, and original tune card, 42cms (16 1/2″) long; 21.5cms (8 1/2″) high. (1)

Lot 120/0225

SOLD Hammer price €150

A plain 19th Century coromandelwood Writing Box, with folding tooled leather slope (recent), and brass escutcheons, very good. (1)

Lot 122/0225

SOLD Hammer price €95

A rectangular coloured and parquetry Jewellery Box, with domed lid, inlaid with ivory and coloured woods etc; three small burr walnut boxes, and two circular wooden items, as a lot. (6)

Lot 123/0225

SOLD Hammer price €90

A 19th Century Chinese hardwood Travelling Vanity Box, with two drawers and lift up mirror and mirror sides, the entire with plated metal mounts. (1)

Lot 124/0225

SOLD Hammer price €80

A Victorian hand painted papier mache slope front Writing Box, with mother-o-pearl inlay; and a Chinese papier mache Wall Bracket. (2)

Lot 125/0225

SOLD Hammer price €180

An unusual carved and inlaid ebony Table Writing Companion, the letter and pen holder on top over a tall body with two panel doors enclosing a fitted interior with drawers etc, and a drop front writing slide, the entire profusely inlaid in ivory or bone with swags of flowers. (1)

Lot 126/0225

SOLD Hammer price €940

A good quality Georgian period mahogany Apothecary Box, with a fitted interior containing six glass bottles, and with base drawer containing a hall marked silver scales, and brass weights etc. (1)

Lot 128/0225

SOLD Hammer price €190

An antique red Irish Hunt Jacket, belonging to The Master of The Coshmere and Coshbridge Hunt in County Waterford, with original engraved small (4) large (6) silvered buttons by Walding of Rugby. (1)

Lot 129/0225

SOLD Hammer price €2300

High Sheriff of Co. Roscommon

A rare High Sheriffs red Court Jacket, with decorated collar and cuffs embroidered in silver gilt thread with shamrocks, by Small Page & Son, and with silver plated crown buttons by Josh Starky, London, decorated with a crown, together with Bicorn Hat, with feather plume and silver and gilt decoration; also with the original finely engraved Court Sword and scabbard by Page & Son, London, with embossed and engraved gilt decoration, and original long tin container with brass plaque inscribed “The Mac Dermot” (1)
Provenance: Coolavin, Co. Roscommon.
** The High Sheriff of Roscommon was the British Crown’s judicial representative in County Roscommon, Ireland from 1575 until 1922, when the office was abolished in the new Free State and replaced by the office of Roscommon County Sheriff. The sheriff had judicial, electoral, ceremonial and administrative functions and executed High Court Writs.

Lot 130/0225

SOLD Hammer price €210

A large and attractive yellow ground Chinese porcelain Vase, 36cms (14″) high, embossed with flowers. (1)

Lot 134/0225

SOLD Hammer price €180

Three antique Chinese porcelain Teapots and lids, and three small similar porcelain Cream Jugs, each with sparrow beak spout, one with decorated armorial, as is. (6)

Lot 139/0225

SOLD Hammer price €180

A rare English porcelain Plate, Derby c. 1786, decorated with panels of flowers and animals with imitation Chinese seal mark, 22cms (8 3/4″) diameter. (1)