THE WINTER CHATSWORTH FINE ART & ANTIQUE SALE December 3rd & 4th, 2025

55 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 538. A Georgian style mahogany Fuel Chest, the deep open top section with ornate brass carrying handles on a carved base with grotesque mask and hairy paw feet, approx. 153cms long x 92cms high (56” x 36”). (1) €500 - €700 539. A 19th Century Irish carved mahogany Open Armchair, of low proportions, stamped M. Butler, the deep button back issuing upholstered arms and carved uprights on front paw carved feet. (1) €250 - €350 540. A pair of Victorian style painted two handled cast iron Garden Urns on stands, approx. 94cms high (37”). (2) Provenance: General Grehan, Clonmeen House, Banteer, Co. Cork. €700 - €900 541. AWilliam IV rosewood Side / Dining Chair, with carved open back, drop in seat on front reeded tapering legs. (1) €80 - €120 542. An attractive Chinese hardwood square top Occasional Table, with carved edge above decorative pierced frieze on assimilated bamboo legs, approx. 43cms wide x 61cms high (17” x 24”). (1) €150 - €200 543. An oval leather bound rosewood and crossbanded Centre Table, with opposing drawers, reeded edge on a tripod base and brass castors, approx. 132cms wide x 75cms high x 99cms deep (52” x 29½” x 39”). (1) €500 - €700 544. An Edwardian oak Hall Chair, in the manner of Jas. Shoolbred, the back with shaped top and pierced horse shoe design back, above solid seat on front turned legs. (1) €150 - €200 545. A fine quality George III period mahogany Sofa Table, the top with attractive crossbanding and ebony stripe inlay, the shaped flaps with canted corners, above a frieze with opposing drawers with brass handles, supported by lyre shaped uprights united by an inlaid turned stretcher on outsplayed legs with brass castors, approx. 66cms deep x 127cms opened, x 71cms high (26” x 50” x 28”). (1) €600 - €800 546. An attractive woolen BelgiumTapestry, by Metrax, entitled ‘Falcon Hunting,’ after “Les Ateliers des Bords de Loire,” (1559 Museum de Cluny, Paris ) with label, approx. 122cms x 180cms (48” x 71”), with suspension bar. (1) €200 - €300 547. An attractive and decorative ‘Middle Eastern’ embroidered floral decorated blue groundWall Hanging, approx. 102cms x 193cms (40” x 76”). (1) €150 - €200 548. A Georgian period mahogany framed fret Mirror, with bevelled glass interior, and gilded border, the capital with gilded carved foliate motif, approx. 89cms high x 50cms wide (35” x 19¾”). (1) €300 - €500 549. An attractive Georgian style mahogany and satinwood crossbanded Sofa Table, probably Hicks, with demi-lune flaps above a frieze with two drawers with ornate handles, with straight uprights, united by turned stretcher on outsplayed legs with hairy paw castors, approx. 152cms opened x 61cms deep x 74cms high (60” x 24” x 29”). (1) €300 - €400 550. A fine quality and unusual Irish George IV period, possibly Cork, mahogany breakfront Secretaire Bookcase or Estate Cabinet, with ornate reeded pediment over four glazed doors, each with two glass panels on a breakfront base with roped edge, the frieze drawer opening to reveal twenty-four sections each with label A-Z and a smaller drawer to either side, the left drawer lettered A-G and the right drawer with sections lettered H-Z, the lower long frieze drawer opening to reveal a secretaire, with section writing surface, pen and ink compartment and stationery section, above two rope moulded panel doors and flanked to either side with a rope moulded cupboard door with mock drawers panel, all raised on four spiral reeded and turned legs, 257cms h x 254cms w (101’’ x 100’’). (1) Provenance: Presentation Order, Blackrock, Co. Cork. €1000 - €1500 552. A 19th Century giltwood Mirror, with branch design frame with pierced capital and bevelled mirror, approx. 86cms high x 54cms wide (34” x 21”). (1) €120 - €150 554 . Fine Bindings: Clark (W.G.) & Glover (J.) eds. The Works of William Shakespeare , 9 vols., Cambridge & London (MacMillan & Co.) 1863-1866, full crimson mor. gilt tooled spines & mor. labels; Prothero (R.E.) The Private Correspondence of Edward Gibbon , 2 vols., L. 1896, hf. calf, mor. labels; Smith (Wm.) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , 8 vols. L. 1887, New Edn., hf. calf, mor. labels; Thackeray (W.M.) The Works, 13 vols., L. 1900 (Biographical Edition) hf. green leather, gilt lettering; Cary (Rev. H.F.)trans. Dante , 3 vols., L. 1819, Second, hf. calf, decor. spines, mor. labels; Sale G. ) The Koran , 2 vols., L. 1825, New dn., gilt decor. spines, mor. labels by Morrel (London); Moore (T.) The Works of the Right Honorable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 2 vols., L. 1873, hf. calf mor. labels; Oeuvres de P. Corneille.. ., 12 vols., Paris (Chez Janet et Cotelle) 1821, full calf decor. spines; also Oeuvres de Jean Racine , 5 vols., Paris 1815, as a collection of bindings. (as a lot) €400 - €600 545 546 550