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Lot 151
1916 Rising Medal to Joseph Plunkett. Awarded posthumously to Plunkett, a 1916 Rising bronze medal on green and orange silk poplin ribbon, the reverse numbered '70' and named 'Joseph Plunkett', in box of issue. Gifted by Grace Gifford to Cathal Gannon, thence to the current owner. The circumstances of the gifting of the medal by Grace Gifford to Cathal Gannon are related in Gannon, Charles. Cathal Gannon: The Life and Times of a Dublin Craftsman, 1910-1999; 2006 Lilliput Press, Dublin, p.149. Plunkett was born in Dublin, son of George Noble Plunkett, a papal count and Irish nationalist. Plunkett contracted tuberculosis at a young age and which afflicted him for the rest of his life. He was educated at the Catholic University School (CUS) and by the Jesuits at Belvedere College in Dublin and later at Stonyhurst College, in Lancashire, where he acquired some military knowledge from the Officers' Training Corps. Throughout his life, Joseph Plunkett took an active interest in Irish heritage and the Irish language. He joined the Gaelic League and began studying with Thomas MacDonagh, with whom he formed a lifelong friendship. The two were both poets with an interest in theatre, and both were early members of the Irish Volunteers, joining their provisional committee. Plunkett persuaded his father to let a family property at Kimmage be used as a training centre for Irish Volunteers. Sometime in 1915 Joseph Plunkett joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood and soon after was sent to Germany to meet with Roger Casement, who was negotiating with the German government on behalf of Ireland. Plunkett successfully got a promise of a German arms shipment to coincide with the rising. Plunkett was one of the original members of the IRB Military Committee that was responsible for planning the Easter Rising, and it was largely his plan that was followed. Shortly before the rising was to begin, Plunkett was hospitalised and had an operation on his neck glands days before Easter and had to struggle out of bed to take part in what was to follow. Still bandaged, he took his place in the General Post Office with several other of the rising's leaders such as Patrick Pearse and Tom Clarke, though his health prevented him from being terribly active. His energetic aide de camp was Captain Michael Collins. Following the surrender Plunkett was held in Kilmainham Gaol, and faced a court martial. Seven hours before his execution by firing squad at the age of 28, he was married in the prison chapel to his fiance, Grace Gifford. His widow became a prominent republican, opposed the 1921 Treaty and was imprisoned by the Irish Free State government. In 1941 she refused to attend a ceremony to receive her husband's 1916 Rising medal. This was probably a protest against the government's wartime policy of internment of IRA members, many of whom were known to her. When the medal was posted to her she threw it in the bin, where it was rescued by Cathal Gannon; Grace told him to keep it as she didn't want it. She was also embittered with the Plunkett family as they prevented her from receiving anything from her husband's estate and she had had to sue Count George Plunkett to receive a settlement of only £700 in 1934.
Lot 342
1975 Canonisation of Oliver Plunket bronze medal by Imogen Stuart. Limited edition commissioned by Cardinal Conway, Archbishop of Armagh. Monsignor Peter Shields, Administrator in the Archdiocese of Armagh (1975); Thence by descent; Whyte's 24 September 2011, lot 529; private collection. Diameter of medal 2ins. Inscription obverse reads, "Oliverius Archiep Arma Chan Martyr"; reverse read, "Sanctus 12.X.1975" and "Tyburn I.VII.1681". Saint Oliver Plunkett (1629-1681) was ordained in 1654 and spent the years of the Irish Confederate Wars and Cromwellian conquest of Ireland (1649-1653) in Rome. On his return to Ireland in 1670 he set up several schools to further the development of Catholicism in Ireland. He was later prosecuted for these actions and was arrested in 1679. Two years later he was found guilty of high treason "for promoting Catholic faith" and was hung drawwn and quartered in Tyburn on 1 July 1681. This design was also used for 'Canonisation of Oliver Plunkett' commemorative [7p and 15p] stamps issued on 13 October 1975. For further reading on the Canonisation of Oliver Plunkett see, Seanchas Ardmhacha: Journal of the Armagh Diocesan Historical Society, Vol. 8, No. 1, 1975/1976
Lot 173
1916 Commemorative bronze relief of Cuchullain. The small scale relief of 'The Dying Cúchulainn' by Oliver Sheppard. Manufactured under licence from The Commissioner of Public Works. Mounted on Connemara marble, raised on mahogany plinth. The large original sculpture, which commemorates the 1916 Rising, is located in the G.P.O., Dublin. 6 x 5 x 5in. (15.24 x 12.70 x 12.70cm)
Lot 108
Parnell Commemorative medal A bronze commemorative medal by Johnson on a yellow and green ribbon suspended from a bronze bar. The obverse with bust of Parnell surrounded by the words 'Ireland's Army of Independence 1891' and garland of shamrock and ivy. The reverse with the words 'Let my love be conveyed to my colleagues and the Irish people'.
Lot 76
Jules-Clément Chaplain (1839-1909), after, a patinated bronze medallion, awarded to G Whitaker at the Exposition Universelle Internationale, Paris 1900, cast with Victory and Nike triumphant above the Palais du Trocadéro, the reverse with the profile Marianne fully turned to Dexter, crowned with a garland of oak leaves and overlooking the Seine and Notre Dame, 6.5cm diameter
Lot 86
A good 19th Century French gilt metal and enamel desk seal the tapered shaft enamelled with panels of flowers and leafage on a blue ground, the top scroll and shell embossed, initialled D, 7cm high; a bronze desk seal, foliate and pendant cast, the top and leafage inset red glass "jewels", 6.5cm high (2)
Lot 443
A mid 19th Century French three piece ormolu and bronze clock garniture decorated in the aesthetic taste, the four glass clock case with cylindrical drum shaped top with foliate and fruit cast finial, the body with "bronze" band, finely engraved with butterflies, flowerheads and leafage, the case with outset angles with ball and spire finials, the pillars foliate wrapped, the circular dial with Arabic tablet numerals with conforming bronze centre, the frieze and base conforming with shell and scroll centre, ball and spire feet, 38cm high; the pair of two handled urnular casolets with bud finials with bronzed bodies conformingly engraved on circular bases and conforming square plinths with outset corners, 30cm high, Circa 1875
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Lot 325
A good pair of 19th Century Japanese iron and mixed metal cylindrical vases, the tops cast and gilded with continuous Greek key, each vase with pair of panels, one with silver crane flying over lily pads detailed with silver gilt bronze and gold, the reverse with finches flying above tied reeds and flowers, the other vase with Kingfisher resting on a lotus bloom with gilt detailed leaves beneath, the reverse with butterfly in copper, bronze and gilt above a flowering leafy branch, bronze sleeved, 29cm high, 12.5cm diameter (faults)
Lot 465
A good pair of 19th Century ormolu and bronze figural candlesticks the fluted foliate wrapped nozzles with leafy drip pans above infant caryatids with scaled tapered columns on leafy socles, octagonal collars and spreading shaped square bases cast pendants and fruit, four beaded disc feet, 31.5cm high, Circa 1840
Lot 487
A 19th Century Russian bronze modelled as a Cossack holding his sweetheart, their horse descending a rocky slope, after the model by Vasili Grachev, inscribed in the maquette in Cyrillic and also marked FABR.C.F.WOERFFL, ST PETERSBURG, and Finance Ministry stamp dated 1877, 23cm high, 31cm wide
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