Tag: Irish

Action alert: Eden Hall, Co. Kilkenny

LARGE 19TH-CENTURY PINE KITCHEN TABLE
Sheppard’s Irish Auction House, based in Durrow, County Laois in Ireland will be holding a sale of the contents of Eden Hall, a farmhouse located in County Kilkenny. The 2-day auction takes place on 31st January & 1st February 2023, beginning each day at 10am.

The sale lots are very eclectic; art, ceramics, lighting and furniture spanning centuries, styles and continents. Their sale catalogue is interactive, so I’ve embedded it below.

The purchaser shall pay the hammer price together with a buyer’s premium of 25% including VAT.

Worldwide shipping available please contact us on shipping@sheppards.ie for more details.

Bid via EasyLiveAuction, Invaluable, Live Auctioneers or The Saleroom. Check each website for the fees that they charge for their service.

19TH-CENTURY DOMED AND BOUND TRUNK

Lot 7: 19TH-CENTURY DOMED AND BOUND TRUNK

The lid opening to a storage interior
Estimate: €600 – €800

19TH-CENTURY TOLEWARE BATH

Lot 88: 19TH-CENTURY TOLEWARE BATH

With armorial painted decoration. 50 cm. high; 90 cm. wide; 70 cm. deep
Estimate: €300 – €500

ISLAMIC BRONZE AND SILVER INLAID CASKET

Lot 117: ISLAMIC BRONZE AND SILVER INLAID CASKET

Of rectangular form with chamfered corners, the lift-up lid opening to a fitted lidded interior, 18th-century. 8 cm. high; 17 cm. wide
Estimate: €500 – €800

FRENCH SCHOOL clown watercolour

Lot 173: FRENCH SCHOOL

Clown. Watercolour. Indistinctly signed. Dated 1969. 53 x 32 cm.
Estimate: €200 – €300

4 antique painted kitchen chairs

Lot 277: 4 antique painted kitchen chairs

87 cm. high; 46 cm. wide; 44 cm. deep
Estimate: €80 – €120

MID CENTURY LEATHER CHAIR

Lot 388: DESIGNER MID-CENTURY LEATHER CHAIR

Raised on hooped ends. 93 cm. high; 76 cm. wide; 84 cm. deep
Estimate: €200 – €300

LARGE 19TH-CENTURY PINE KITCHEN TABLE

Lot 457: LARGE 19TH-CENTURY PINE KITCHEN TABLE

The elongated rectangular shaped top with rounded corners, above a conforming frieze, raised on turned legs. 76 cm. high; 272 cm. wide; 82 cm. deep
Estimate: €800 – €1200

PAIR OF 20TH-CENTURY INDUSTRIAL STYLE TABLES

Lot 566: PAIR OF 20TH-CENTURY INDUSTRIAL STYLE TABLES

Each with a rectangular shaped top, raised on X-framed supports. 70 cm. high; 40 cm. wide; 30 cm. deep
Estimate: €500 – €800

PAIR HIDE UPHOLSTERED SETTEES

Lot 627: PAIR HIDE UPHOLSTERED SETTEES

Each with a deep buttoned back above a loose cushioned seat. 100 cm. high; 210 cm. wide; 73 cm. deep
Estimate: €500 – €800

 
 
 

Gimme Five: Irish products

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Selection of five Irish products | H is for Home

Lá Fhéile Pádraig or St Patrick’s Day is coming up next week so we thought we’d highlight a selection of Irish products for today’s Gimme Five! post.

No kitsch leprechauns or silly foam hats here, just some lovely Irish-made or themed homewares that we’d be happy to give house-room!

  1. Irish Lights lighthouse print by Longshot Press: £60, Notonthehighstreet
  2. Dotty Sheep oil cloth bag & purse: £19, Ulster Weavers
  3. Irish coffee glasses: £14.29, Amazon
  4. Coole Swan Superior Irish cream liqueur & glass: £25, John Lewis
  5. Shamrock coasters: £11.04, Etsy

World Dolls Series: Ireland

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World Dolls Series: Ireland book front cover

We’re back touring!

World Dolls Series: Ireland book showing J Giplin illustrator information

We’ve crossed the sea to Ireland in our World Dolls Series – a charming collection of children’s books produced in the 1960s.

World Dolls Series: Ireland book showing Patrick carrying his shillelagh

Our guides for this leg of the journey are Kathleen & Patrick – two dolls who once stood side by side in a Dublin shop window. There’ll certainly be no misbehaving on this trip – Patrick has his shillelagh at the ready for anyone who steps out of line!

World Dolls Series: Ireland book showing Irish tweed

Gorgeous illustrations once more – this time the work of J.Giplin from the Birmingham School of Design.

World Dolls Series book showing Irish round towers

We’re taken on a journey through pretty country landscapes…

World Dolls Series: Ireland book showing Giant's Causeway

…eating hearty home cooked food as we go.

World Dolls Series: Ireland book showing Irish bread

What’s not to like?

World Dolls Series: Ireland book showing Irish barm brack

We venture across the Channel to France next time!

Egg-squisite!

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vintage slipware egg cup & saucer produced by TerryBaun with vintage Viners 'Studio' teaspoon designed by Gerald Benney

We picked up this gorgeous little egg cup & saucer this week. It only cost a pound, but it’s one of those little items that we’re going to treasure. We’ve mentioned previously how much we love this type country slipware pottery.

vintage slipware egg cup produced by TerryBaun

We did a bit of research into the maker and it turns out that it’s by Terrybaun Pottery – one of the oldest, if not the oldest, craft potteries in Ireland. It was established by Madeleine & Grattan Freyer in the late 1940s. Our egg cup looks like it might be one of their quite early slipware pieces.

base of vintage slipware egg cup produced by TerryBaun showing impressed back stamp

Below are just a few examples of the slipware & scaffito pieces they produced in the 1950s/60s – the pictures are taken from the Irish Arts Review’s online archive – stunning!!

trio of vintage slipware bowls from the Terrybaun Pottery

long oval Terrybaun Pottery dish with scraffito decoration by Oisin Kelly depicting the Last Supper

The couple’s nephew, master potter Henri Hedou, alongside his wife Fiona, carries on the tradition – taking over the running of the Co. Mayo pottery in 1983.