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Important Irish Art | 28th September 2016

SHANDON, CORK, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE

‘SHANDON BELLS & TOWER’, HALLMARKED FOR DUBLIN 1883, MARK OF EGAN OF CORK,

laid down on a mahogany platform with a tombstone to the left of the tower, inscribed ‘Revd. J O’Mahony’, the base applied with a silver plaque

inscribed ‘ The Bells of Shandon - In this I ponder/ Wher’er I wander/ And thus grown fonder/ Sweet Cork of thee/ With the Bells of Shandon/ That

sound so grand on/ The pleasant eaters/ Of the River lee’. 47.5 x 21 x 53cm high

This exhibition piece was crafted by Mr. W.A. Clare, foreman jeweller at William Egan & Sons for the Cork exhibition of 1883 and was subsequently

shown at the World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition in New Orleans. A plaque on the base is inscribed ‘Restoration work carried out

by Sean Carroll & Sons, Cork, May 1998’. It was also exhibited in Cork, April-June 2005, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, ‘Cork Silver and Gold, Four

Centuries of Craftsmanship’.

We are grateful to Mr. Joe Burns for his assistance in cataloguing this lot

€ 4,000 - 6,000