CHATSWORTH SUMMER FINE ART SALE May 28th & 29th 2024

73 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 722. After P.J. Mene (French 1810-1879) Bronze depicting a Huntsman on horseback leading a pack of dogs on a naturalistic base, mounted on an oval marble slab, 64cms high x 84cms wide (25” x 33”). (1) €600 - €900 724. An antique Venetian glass ornateWall Mirror, with shaped cornice, etched panels, approx. 99cms x 59cms (39” x 25”). (1) Provenance: The Burke Family, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary €200 - €300 725. A Georgian period mahogany slope front Bureau, of small proportions, opening to reveal a fitted interior with drawers, pigeon holes etc., over narrow centre drawer, two short and two long drawers graduating with ornate Chippendale style brass drop handles and escutcheons on bracket feet, approx. 79cms wide x 104ms high (31” x 41”). (1) Provenance: The Dillon-Mahon Family, by direct descent. €400 - €600 726. A pair of assimilated marble Columns, with square tops over Corinthian capitals and ornate decoration with figures harvesting, on conforming bases, approx. 98cms high (38½”); together with a smaller similar pair en suite. (4) €200 - €300 727. An attractive pair of Victorian walnut narrow Open Bookcases, the moulded top over plain frieze with adjustable shelves on block base, each approx. 61cms wide x 95cms high x 25cms deep (24” x 37½” x 10”). (2) €350 - €450 728. A pair of attractive Georgian style mahogany Bachelors Chests, each with inlaid and crossbanded fold-over tops, with long top drawer, two short and three graduating long drawers, with ornate brass drop handles, on bracket feet, each approx. 76cms wide x 36cms deep x 79cms high (30” x 14” x 31”). (2) €800 - €1000 729. A French style marble top Stand, with shaped top with pierced brass gallery with ormolu mounts on triform base with platform stretcher with urn finial; together with a walnut rouge marble top Pot Cupboard on cabriole legs. (2) €250 - €320 730. A French Louis XVI style bombe shaped Commode, of small proportions with floral marquetry top brass banding, over two long drawers with ormolu mounts and handle on cabriole legs with gilt sabots, approx. 81cms high x 65cms wide (32” x 25½”). (1) €200 - €300 731. An attractive 19th Century Irish mahoganyWaterfall Open Bookcase, with shaped panelled top above five graduating shelves, each supported by turned pillars, approx. 137cms high x 107cms wide (54” x 42”). (1) Provenance: Nelson Bell Collection - The Bell Gallery, Belfast €350 - €420 732. An attractive inlaid mahogany and ebony strung pedestal Stand, the square top over dentil moulding and recessed panels over a tapering square pillar, on square plinth base, approx. 115cms (45½”) high. (1) Provenance: Nelson Bell Collection - The Bell Gallery, Belfast €300 - €500 733. A Triptych composed of leather over wooden boards. Each panel is decorated with: * National Emblems: shamrocks for Ireland (at top and bottom), white and red roses for England, thistles for Scotland; * The Garter Star, with motto “Honi soit qui mal y pense”; * The motto “Quis separabit”; * Banners depicting the Royal Arms (post- 1837) and the Union Flag, each panel also bears a coat of arms, as follows: * Burton of Pollacton, co. Carlow, Bart; motto “Dominus providebit”; * Denys of Easton Neston, co. Northampton, Bart; motto “Ora e sempre”; * Slade, Bart, motto “Fidus et audax.” The arms indicate that the Screen is almost certainly that of Sir Francis Charles Edward Denys-Burton, Third Baronet (1849-1922) of Pollarton, High Sheriff of Co. Carlow, 1906. He was the son of Sir George William Denys, 2nd Bart, and in 1906 assumed additional surname of Burton in right of his wife, Grace Ellen, daughter of Lt-Col. Adolphus William Desart Burton and Sophia Louise Slade. Approx. 169cms high x 127cms wide opened (66½” x 50”). Gerard Crotty, October 2023. €1000 - €2000 725 728 (pair) 733