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Lot 607
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. A STONEWARE JAR, IMPRESSED ON A DECORATIVE LABEL TO THE SHOULDER SAMUEL HALL SPIRIT MERCHANT BINGHAM, MID 19TH C, ANOTHER, SIMILAR BUT WITH HANDLE, IMPRESSED OLIVER BECKIT WINE MERCHANT MIDDLSMITH GATE NOTTINGHAM 8087, 31 AND 32CM H, A JAR AND TWO VICTORIAN JAPANNED OR BROWN PAINTED METAL HAT BOXES
Lot 301
A COLLECTION OF TWENTY TWO BOTTLES OF RED AND WHITE WINE (12 & 10) from Europe and the New World comprising of St Emilion, La Forza Rosso del Salento, Cote du Roussillon, Bordeaux Superieur and Pouilly Fuisse amongst others, varying fill levels but most consistent with age and storage, bottles range from late 1980's to early 2000's
Lot 302
A COLLECTION OF TWENTY TWO BOTTLES OF RED AND WHITE WINE (12 & 10) from Europe and the New World comprising of St Emilion (Roc du Lussac), Listrac Medoc, Rioja and Piesporter amongst others, varying fill levels but most consistent with age and storage, bottles range mostly from late 1980's to early 2000's
Lot 303
A COLLECTION OF TWENTY TWO BOTTLES OF RED AND WHITE WINE FROM EUROPE AND THE NEW WORLD comprising St Emilion (Roc du Lussac), La Forza, Minervois and Pinot Grigio amongst others. Varying fill levels but most consistent with age and storage, bottles range mostly from late 1980's to early 2000's
Lot 304
A COLLECTION OF TWENTY ONE BOTTLES OF RED AND WHITE WINE (9 & 12) FROM EUROPE AND THE NEW WORLD comprising St Emilion (Roc du Lussac), Cote du Roussillion, La Forza and Rheinhessen Liebfraumilch amongst others. Varying fill levels but most consistent with age and storage, bottles range mostly from late 1980's to early 2000's. Also included in this Lot is a 3/4 full bottle of Laphroaid Single Islay Malt, the cork has been broken in the bottle
Lot 306
A COLLECTION OF TWENTY THREE BOTTLES AND A SMALL NUMBER OF MINIATURE BOTTLES OF WINES AND SPIRITS to include Andre Carpentier Champagne, Lamb's Navy Rum, Southern Comfort, Dow's Port and a selection of Red and White wine including Rioja and Blossom Hill. All bottles including the miniatures are sealed (two boxes)
Lot 310
A COLLECTION OF THREE BOTTLES VINTAGE OF CHAMPAGNE, two bottles of sparkling wine and sixty three bottles of Barley Wines, Ales and Stout. The Champagne consists of Canard-Duchene, Moet & Chandon Premiere Cuvee and F.Chauvenet 1937. The corks on all bottles show signs of wear but the contents appear consistent with age. The Barley Wine and Ales date back possibly from as early as the 1960's - 1970's and include Owd Rodger, Gold Label and Trumans (four boxes)
Lot 2
ROMANIAN HAND-MADE WOOL PILE CARPET OF PERSIAN DESIGN, heavy quality with intricate large circular midnight blue and white centre medallion with pendants, on a wine red field with Heratic decoration, off-white spandrels; the principal border off-white with floral meander, four guard stripes, 12' x 9' (365.7 x 274.3cm)
Lot 101
THE ARMADA TABLE of the O’Brien’sA composed 16th century and later oak and other woods and marquetry rectangular refectory table, the cleated plank top above a frieze applied with twelve grotesque masks, (two further masks are lacking), one long side with Dutch-style floral marquetry, the other side plain, the ends veneered with re-used filigree marquetry, raised on boldly carved heraldic lion corner supports, probably from a tropical hardwood such as manilkara or bullet-wood, while two central supports are in the form of Hope and Charity, on a moulded stretcher base with cross supports.242cm x 91cm x 82cm highProvenance: Boethius Clancy, High Sheriff of Clare, c.1588 and later gifted to the O’Brien’s of Lemenagh, Co. Clare. Thence by descent through the O’Brien Clan to the current Lord Inchiquin, 18th Baron. The table was relocated from Lemenagh Castle to Dromoland Castle after 1660, remaining there until 1962 when it was removed to Bunratty Castle.Literature: The Knight of Glin & James Peill, Irish Furniture, Yale 2007James Frost, The History and Topography of the County of Clare, Sealy, Bryers & Walker, Dublin 1893, p.252/253.Daniel Augustus Beaufort’s Journals, TCD, MSS 4024/4033, pp.53-4 Ivar O’Brien, O’Brien of Thomond, The O’Briens in Irish History 1500-1865, Chichester 1986, pp.195-6Grania O’Brien, These my Friends and Forebears, The O’Briens of Dromoland, Whitegate, Co Clare 1991, p.4The Armada Table is described by The Knight of Glin in Irish Furniture (Yale, 2007) as ‘one of the most important and earliest pieces of Irish furniture.’ He proceeds to quote from D.A. Beaufort’s 1786 travel diaries:In a long tiled gallery full of maps, & stag horns & other such things is a very curious massy table of some kind of mahogany, with 4 Lions for legs & in the middle Hope on one side & Charity on the other, for supporters - all rudely carved. This table was taken out of one of the Ships of the Armada wrecked on this coast 200 years ago.The Knight further comments: ‘Upon close examination, the heraldic lion supports and figures of Hope and Charity below grotesque masks on the frieze were probably part of the ornamental woodwork of a Spanish galleon. The frieze is inlaid with Dutch-style marquetry of flowers on one long side only, while each end is veneered with reused filigree marquetry below a cleated plank top. To have rescued such a large piece of furniture sounds unlikely; it is much more likely that the table was assembled in the 1640s where it would have been possible to display it in Máire’s new manor house, some fifty years after the Armada wreck. Doubt could be cast on the age of the table if we did not have Beaufort’s description; the re-used marquetry is probably part of further alterations in the nineteenth century when the ‘antiquarian’ vogue was at its height. The present top on the table is most probably a nineteenth century replacement but there are still signs on the table frame of the draw-leaf mechanism that he described. It is now exhibited in the solar at Bunratty.’The story of the Spanish Armada’s experience on the west coast of Co. Clare is an unhappy one. In early September, 1588 seven ships of the Armada, of varying size came into the mouth of the Shannon and anchored in the safe harbour at Carrigaholt, east of Loop Head. The Coroner of Thomond, Nicholas Cahane, went on board to interview the strangers but could get little information except that they were in serious need of drinking water. James Frost notes that the Spanish dispatched a boat to nearby Kilrush offering to exchange wine for fresh water. The locals however were wary as the Sheriff of the county was under orders to refuse supplies of every kind, and he was to execute all Spaniards who might come on shore, and presumably any natives who might assist them.Despairing, the galleons once again put to sea, prepared to take their chances on the ocean. The following day a vessel was seen anchored in a wild spot, as Frost called it, a mile west of the castle of Liscannor. Pedro Baptista, purser of the ‘Sumiga’, landed on shore in search of water and was duly arrested. He stated that the crew were perishing due to a lack of water and that the master had already died of thirst. Other Spanish vessels were observed from the shore and on the 10th of September one drifted into a bay near Doonbeg, and became a total wreck. Three hundred of the crew were drowned , and about sixty men who had landed were slaughtered by the locals or executed by order of Sir Turlough O’Brien of Tromroe. Further ships also ran aground and were wrecked. Frost notes that from the surrounding country, the population came down to the shore for plunder. ‘Such of the unhappy foreigners as escaped drowning were executed by Boethius Clancy, high Sheriff of the county, assisted by Sir Turlough O’Brien, Captain Mordaunt and Mr. Morton. A massive table, preserved at Dromoland Castle, is almost the only relic, left in Clare, of the disastrous fate of the Spanish Armada.’Boethius Clancy, (d.1598) was born in Co. Clare into a well-educated family, the hereditary lawyers or brehons of Thomond. In 1585 he was the representative of the newly formed County Clare in the Parliament of Ireland and in 1588 was appointed High Sheriff of Clare. That same year the Spanish Armada were attempting to make their way home through severe storms off the west coast of Ireland and many ships were wrecked or abandoned. Clancy was authorized by the Lord Deputy to “.... take all the hulls of ships, stores, treasures etc, into your hands and to apprehend and execute all Spaniards found there of what quality so ever.” A report states that Clancy rounded up and imprisoned as many as 170 Spanish crew who were subsequently hung on a nearby hill not far from Doonagore Castle, Cnoc na Crocaire (Hangman’s Hill), and the bodies buried in a mass grave nearby. It was noted that Clancy managed to salvage timber and decorations from the wreck and had a table made from it, the heraldic figures coming from the stern of a galleon. This is the table that was subsequently gifted to Sir Donough O’Brien of Lemenagh.Descending directly from the tenth century High King of Ireland Brian Boru, the O’Briens, Barons of Inchiquin are synonymous with Dromoland, one of the most famous baronial castles in Ireland and the clan’s ancestral home for nigh-on nine hundred years. Three castles are however associated with the O’Briens - Lemenagh, Dromoland and Bunratty.In 1014, Donough O’Brien, a son of Brian Boru, controlled Dromoland when it was a defensive stronghold. Donough was deposed in 1063 and went on pilgrimage to Rome and there gave the Irish Crown to the Pope. He died in Rome the following year and was buried in the basilica of Santo Stefano al Monte Celio. Lemenagh Castle, located between Corofin and Kilfenora, was built circa 1480-90 probably by Turlough Don O’Brien, King of Thomond and was originally a basic, 5-storied Irish tower house
Lot 113
A FINE SET OF FOUR GEORGE III SILVER GILT WINE COASTERS, London 1818, mark of Joseph Craddock & William Ker Reid, each of circular form with egg and dart banded rim above open pierced and chased body, decorated with a continuous band of fruiting vines, and with turned wood base containing a crested medallion, the set contained in a fitted rectangular oak case. Each 5.5cm high, 14cm diameter. (4)
Lot 198
A SET OF EIGHTEEN IRISH REGENCY MAHOGANY FRAMED DINING CHAIRS, by Mack, Williams & Gibton, stamped B7180, the curved rail backs with incised line decoration, and middle rail above padded seats, covered in oatmeal tweed cloth and raised on chamfered sabre legs. (16 single and 2 elbow chairs)Provenance: Supplied to Henry Bar, Ballindoolin HouseThe chairs each with a curved bar back and reeded cross rails above a stuff-over seat, raised on front sabre legs, sixteen marked B7180 and a pair of open carvers marked B7180 and all signed in ink M W G.Mack, Williams & Gibton, 39 Staford Street, Dublin (1812-29) was one of the most successful partnerships in the early nineteenth century. The firm received a royal appointment in 1806 as ‘Upholsterers & Cabinet Makers to his Majesty, His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant and His Majesty’s Board of Works’. The firm worked closely with the architect Francis Johnston, then architect to the Board of Works and supplied furnishings to Dublin Castle and the Vice Regal Lodge (now Aras an Uachterain) and other state buildings.Ballindoolin, built in circa 1822 for Humphry Bor, retained up to recently an important collection of furniture supplied by Mack, Williams & Gibton. The firm supplied fine furniture to many Irish country houses including Borris House, County Carlow, The Argory, County Armagh and Lissadell, County Sligo. Indeed the attractive gate lodge in Greek revival style has been attributed to Francis Johnston (O’ Byrne).The country house dining room underwent a change in interior style in the early nineteenth century with a taste for larger tables and chairs, ordered ensuite with sideboard, serving table and wine cooler. As the hour for serving dinner became established at a later hour it was eaten by candlelight and drama was further created with a fashion for darker colours, augmented by candlelight and silver reflecting in large mirrors. The dining room served an important role in a family’s social life and was a centre for mixed gender entertainment, with the ladies being asked to leave while the chaps got sozzled on port!
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