Auctions & Fairs: results and forthcoming events

A 1914 Talbot Invincible vintage car sells for €35,000

An oil portrait of Flight Commander Colin Roy Mac Kenzie by John S. Helier Lander which sold for €1,200

Sat Nov 19 2016 - 00:00

AUCTION RESULTS

Tuesday and Wednesday (November 15th & 16th) Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers. The Chatsworth Fine Art Sale. 80 per cent of lots sold. Lot 497, a 1914 Talbot Invincible vintage car €35,000 (€17,000-€22,000); Lot 151, a set of late 18th century "Galway" rosary beads €460 (€400-€600); Lot 700, "visitors' shooting book from Dromoland Castle €5,200 (€2,000-€3,000); Lot 272, a brass 19th century stationery box engraved with the O'Brien of Dromoland crest €2,700 (€500-€700); Lot 657, stained-glass window "The Four Provinces of Ireland" €6,700 (€1,000-€1,500); Lot 658, stained-glass window "King David and the Creation" €5,000 (€5,000-€7,000); Lot 893, an 18th century Irish school oil-on-canvas "Portrait of Sir Marmaduke Coghill sitting in his robes" €5,700 (€3,000-€4,000); Lot 258, an Irish 18th century mahogany grandfather clock with brass dial by George Sikes, Carlow, €900 (€800-€1,200); Lot 908 oil portrait of "Flight Commander Colin Roy Mac Kenzie, DSO, R.N.A.S. - Croix de Guerre" by John St. Helier Lander €1,200 (€700-€900) [ see pic below]. For full results see fonsiemealy.ie

Tuesday (November 15th) Hegarty's Auction Rooms, Bandon, Co Cork. Lot 55, an Irish 18th century satinwood and marquetry inlaid demi-lune side table by William Moore €18,600 (€15,000-€20,000); a Killarney-ware jewellery box €2,200 (€2,500-€3,000).

Wednesday (November 16th) Bonhams, New Bond Street, London. A woodcut (print) of Day and Night (1938) by M.C. Escher £21,250 (£12,000-£18,000).