Sunday Interiors Auction

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Sunday Interiors Auction
Sunday 3rd March 2013 at 11.00am

Sunday Interiors Auction
CONTACTS
Brian Coyle James O’Halloran Stuart Cole Eamon O’Connor BA David Britton Nick Nicholson
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR PURCHASERS
1. DESCRIPTION, ESTIMATES AND RESERVES 4. VAT REGULATIONS
These are shown below each lot in this sale. All amounts shown are in All lots are sold within the auctioneers VAT margin scheme. Revenue
Euro. The figures shown are provided merely as a guide to prospective Regulations require that the buyers premium must be invoiced at a rate
purchasers. They are approximate prices which are expected, are not which is inclusive of VAT. This is not recoverable by any VAT registered
definitive and are subject to revision. Reserves, if any, will not be any buyer.
higher than the lower estimate. All measurements and weights are
5. CONDITION REPORTS
approximate and are provided for information purposes only.
It is up to the bidder to satisfy themselves prior to buying as to the
2. PADDLE BIDDING condition of a lot. Whilst we make certain observations on the lot,
All intending purchasers must register for a paddle number before the which are intended to be as helpful as possible, references in the
auction. Please allow time for registration. Potential purchasers are condition report to damage or restoration are for guidance only
recommended to register on viewing days. and should be evaluated by personal inspection by the bidder or a
knowledgeable representative. The absence of such a reference does
3. PAYMENT, DELIVERY AND PURCHASERS PREMIUM
not imply that an item is free from defects or restoration, nor does a
Monday 4th March 2013 and Tuesday 5th March from 10.00am - 5.00pm.
reference to particular defects imply the absence of any others. The
All purchases must be paid for and removed from the premises no later
condition report is an expression of opinion only and must not be
than 5pm on Tuesday 5th March 2013 at the purchaser’s risk and expense.
treated as a statement of fact.
After this time all uncollected lots will be removed to commercial storage
Please ensure that condition report requests are received before
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Sunday
Interiors
Auction
AUCTION
Sunday 3rd March 2013 at 11.00am
VENUE
26 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2
SALE CODE
This sale may be referred to as 8122 in all correspondence
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1 A GEORGE III SILVER
BRIGHT CUT ENGRAVED
OVAL SILVER TEAPOT,
London 1784, mark of Hester
Bateman, the domed cover with
continuous bands of bright cut
engraved scrolls and beaded rims,
the straight spout and ebony ‘c’
scrolling handle applied to a body
decorated with foliate swags and
draped flowers. 25cm wide over
spout and handle
Lot 1 Lot 2 €600 - 800
2 A GEORGE III SILVER
BALUSTER COFFEE POT,
London 1818, mark of Joseph
Craddock and William Reid, the
body decorated profusely with
repoussé and chased cartouches,
flora and foliage in the rococo
manner, with a hinged lid with
sunflower finial and scroll handle
€600 - 800
3 A SILVER TWO HANDLED
TROPHY CUP ON
PEDESTAL FOOT inscribed
‘1933 Woodbrook Golf Club Vice
Lot 3
President’s Prize’, Birmingham
1931; together with a pair of
golf trophy cups both inscribed
‘Woodbrook Gold Club’,
Birmingham 1930; and another
replica trophy cup inscribed
‘Woodbrook Golf Club’,
Birmingham 1931; and another
(circa 23oz in all) (5)
€250 - 350
4 AN EDWARDIAN SILVER
CHRISTENING MUG,
Lot 4
London 1907, with repoussé
chased and engraved foliate
decoration and ‘c’ scroll handle,
raised on rim foot; and an Irish
christening mug, Dublin 1944,
both inscribed, (circa 10oz in all)
€200 - 300
5 A VICTORIAN SILVER
RECTANGULAR DESK
STAND, London 1962, mark of
JB, fitted compartments with two
glass bottles, having Greek key
border and raised on cast scroll
feet(circa 22.5oz). 29.5 x 19.5cm
Lot 5 €300 - 500
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6 A PAIR OF VICTORIAN
SILVER CORINTHIAN
COLUMN TABLE
CANDLESTICKS, London
1894, mark of T.B., on reeded
platform square bases. 28cm high
(one in need of repair)
€300 - 500
7 A SILVER TAZZA TROPHY
CUP inscribed ‘Kilcroney Squash
Rackets Club’, London 1912;
a pair of plain circular napkin
Lot 7
rings, Birmingham, and a shaped
circular pin box with mother
o’pearl base (circa 11oz in all) (4)
€120 - 180
Lot 6
8 A PLAIN OVAL SILVER
SAUCE BOAT on three pad
feet, Birmingham 1927; a shaped
rectangular pierced salt cellar
with blue liner, and a Danish
silver circular pin tray (circa 6oz
in all) (3)
€100 - 150 Lot 9
9 A PAIR OF VICTORIAN
SILVER DESK
CANDLESTICKS, Sheffield
1884, the circular reeded
columns raised on square
spreading bases, double crested. Lot 8
12.5cm high
€120 - 180
10 AN IRISH ARDAGH
CHALICE PATTERN SILVER
REPLICA TROPHY CUP,
Dublin 1934; an oval sweet
meat basket with swing handle,
Chester 1896; and an American
oval fruit bowl, stamped ‘sterling’
(circa 22oz in all) (3)
€300 - 400
11 A VICTORIAN OVAL Lot 10
SILVER SNUFF BOX with all
over engraved decoration; two
Victorian vesta cases; two sterling
scent bottles; and a George IV
Irish oval box, the hinged lid
with repoussé battle scene and
gilt interior, Dublin c.1827/28
(circa 9ozs all in)
€400 - 500
Lot 11
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14 A VICTORIAN SILVER OVAL
TWIN HANDLED TRAY,
Lot 14 Sheffield 1893, mark of Albert
Henry Thompson, retailed by
Gibson & Co. Ltd., of Belfast,
with gadrooned rim interposed
with anthemion, enclosing
engraved bands of decoration, the
central reserve with presentation
inscription (circa 78.5ozs). 62cm
wide over handles, 37.5cm deep
€1000 - 2000
15 A SHAPED RECTANGULAR
SILVER PRESENTATION
Lot 15 TRAY, Sheffield 1959, with wavy
moulded sides and central reserve
engraved with inscription (circa
12 A PAIR OF VICTORIAN 13 AN EDWARDIAN SILVER 53ozs). 52cm wide, 27.5cm deep
SILVER TABLE TWO HANDLED SUGAR
€800 - 1200
CANDLESTICKS, London BASKET, London 1907, the
1898, with neoclassical urn demi-ovoid body applied with 16 AN EDWARDIAN SILVER
shaped sconces, raised on square a narrow entwined collar and DESK SET, comprising of a
tapering pillars on square raised loop handles with beaded pair of circular desk candlesticks
spreading bases, decorated with decoration, over a waisted oval of waisted circular form, and
foliate and ribbon swags, ram’s foot and pedestal base matching inkwell and fountain
heads, urns and beaded banding. pen, contained within a fitted
€200 - 300
31.7cm high case
€500 - 800 €80 - 120
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Lot 20
20 THE PIMLICO AMERICAN SILVER TWIN HANDLED CUP, Baltimore
early 20th century, mark of Schofield Co., stamped “STERLING 925/1000
FINE”, the textured split, twin handles applied to a lobed body, with gadrooned
rim above continuous bands depicting horse racing scenes, the lobed lower
section with intertwined scrolling foliage, enclosing cartouches later engraved
“Two-Year-Olds One Mile And A Sixteenth Won by Jewels Reward, Owner
Maine Chance Farm” to one side and “Maryland Jockey Club, Pimlico, Pimlico
Futurity $50,000 Added Saturday, November 23-1957”, held aloft by a tapered
Lot 19 support with four horse heads in high relief, on a square base on four scroll feet
(circa 52ozs). 25cm high, 27cm wide over handles
17 A COLLECTION OF 19TH Provenance: Elizabeth Arden. Awarded to the horse “Jewel Reward” ridden by
CENTURY SILVER AND Bill Shoemaker, trained by Ivan H. Parker of Maine Chance Farm Stud owned
WHITE METAL FIDDLE by Elizabeth Arden in 1957 at the then Pimlico Futurity, now called Laurel
PATTERN FLATWARE, Futurity, which is an annual American thoroughbred horse race held in Laurel
comprising of a pair of Park Racecourse in Laurel, Maryland, USA. Elizabeth Arden’s horse racing
William IV table spoons, career was financially fuelled by her thriving cosmetic career. Elizabeth Arden,
London 1833; another similar; christened Florence Nightingale Graham (1884-1966) was the hugely successful
four fiddle pattern teaspoons; a entrepreneurial Canadian businesswoman who built the US cosmetic empire
cheese scoop; a button hook; “Elizabeth Arden Inc.”. She was one of the “wealthiest women in the world” at
and two sugar tongs (11) the peak of her interesting career in cosmetics and fashion. Arden dropped out
€250 - 300 of nursing school in Toronto and joined her elder brother in New York working
as a book-keeper in a Pharmaceutical Company where she spent hours in the
18 AN EDWARDIAN SILVER lab, equipping herself with the necessary skills to further her knowledge in
SOVEREIGN CASE, skincare. She also travelled to Paris and absorbed more skills and style, whilst
Birmingham 1904, the plain on the Continent. She opened her first salon in New York’s Fifth Avenue in
rounded oval body with applied 1910 with her trademark red door. Arden broke all the rules, as a woman, and
suspension loop and containing she made it fashionable for ladies to wear make-up. She furthered the scientific
twin spring loaded coin retainers formulae and also the ‘concept’, and managed to create and sell the “total look”
€50 - 80 and thereafter revolutionised the industry. Having made her fortune Arden
diverged into the bloodstock racing world in the mid 1930’s under the nom
19 AN IRISH FOUR PIECE TEA de course “Mr. Nightingale” until she adopted the name Maine Chance Farm
AND COFFEE SET, Dublin from her health spa in Mount Vernon, Maine. Maine Chance Farm became
marks, mark of Alwright & a major player in the racing world in the 1940’s and 50’s and was the top
Marshall, each of shaped circular money-winning stable in the US in 1945. A tragic fire at a racetrack in Chicago
form, decorated with Celtic destroyed twenty-two horses from Maine Chance Farm in 1946. In 1956 Arden
banding and raised on circular acquired the 722 acre northern portion of Coldstream Stud following the death
spreading foot (circa 70ozs in all) of owner E. Dale Schaffer. After Arden’s death the farm became part of the
(4) College of Agriculture at the University of Kentucky.
€1500 - 2000 €1000 - 2000
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21 A PAIR OF IRISH SILVER 23 A COLLECTION OF SILVER 25 A CHINESE EXPORT
COMMUNION GOBLETS, TRINKETS comprising a WHITE METAL CARD CASE
Dublin 1973, Royal Irish Ltd., trumpet shaped case; pierced of convex rectangular form,
with continuous decoration bon-bon dish on stand; sauce applied with a fierce four-claw
of cartouches enclosing farm boat; oval dish; and a shaped dragon, stamped with hallmarks
yard scenes, with gilt interiors, circular pierced bon-bon dish (5) to the inner rim. 9cm wide
each raised on circular spiral
€100 - 200 €200 - 300
turned foot with reeded rims
(circa 18ozs). 14.5cm high, 9cm 24 TWO CHINESE EXPORT 26 A CHINESE EXPORT
diameter WHITE METAL FOOTED THREE PIECE SILVER TEA
€800 - 1000 BOWLS of circular form, one SERVICE AND TRAY, c.1920,
embossed with herons perched comprising of teapot, milk jug,
22 A SET OF SIX SILVER on old pine branches on a plain sugar bowl and serving tray, each
TEASPOONS; together with ground, stamped ‘silver’ to the decorated with bamboo shoots
a miscellaneous collection of underside, the other of similar on a punched ground with vacant
spoons (Canadian) and a set of form, embossed with a dragon cartouche shaped reserves and
servers (circa 4ozs in all) in flight, also stamped ‘silver’ to stylized bamboo cane handles
the underside (circa 21ozs). Each (circa 82oz in all). The tray
€80 - 120
15cm diameter 54cm wide, 15cm high
€1000 - 1500 €1000 - 2000
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