ADAM'S Country House Collections Day II - 28th April 2026

43 478 A LOUIS QUINZE STYLE FRENCH ORMOLU KINGWOOD BUREAU PLAT BY PAUL SORMANI, 19TH CENTURY, the shaped rectangular top inset with leather scriber, above three frieze drawers with ormolu mounts, raised on sabre legs. Inscribed ‘P.SORMANI, PARIS / 10 rue Charlot’ on lock plate of central drawer. 74cm high, 128cm wide, 74cm deep Although Paul Sormani worked in the 19th Century, he is best known for this won- derful, high-quality recreations of Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI period furniture. His furniture was of such high quality that he soon established himself amongst elite European society. He earned the patronage of Empress Eugénie, wife of Emperor Na- poleon III, who decorated the Palace of the French Imperial Family with Sormani’s furniture. € 15,000 - 20,000 479 ROSE MAYNARD BARTON RWS (1856 - 1929) Portrait of Diana Leight seated on a pond wall Watercolour, 34 x 24cm Signed and dated 1904 lower right Inscribed on an old label verso ‘No. 2 Diana Daughter of Mr. Gerard Leigh, Rose Barton 16 Merrion Square, Dublin’ € 4,000 - 6,000