Country House Collections at Slane Castle October 12
th
& 13
th
2014
75
172
AN IRISH VICTORIAN CARVED ROSEWOOD SERPENTINE FRONT SIDE
CABINET BY STRAHAN OF DUBLIN,
the white marble top with thumb moulded rim, above a pair of mirrored doors and flanking
open mirrored quadrants, having pierced open carved pilasters on a platform base, stamped
‘
Strahan 6588’.
92cm high; 198cm wide; 58cm deep
Proveance: Part of the commission for Rokeby Hall; by descent at Beaulieu
€1500 - 2000
173
A BRONZED METAL TORCHÈRE IN THE FORM OF A STANDING
EGYPTIAN FEMALE FIGURE,
holding aloft a lamp, now electrified, and raised on an ebonised timber socle. 212cm high
overall
€2000 - 3000
174
GUSTO VITRI
(Early 20TH CENTURY)
Bust of a Lady, wearing a headscarf with
barley ears to one side
Marble and alabaster, 50cm high
Signed to the underside
Provenance: Pádraig Mac Manus (1864 -
1929) Republican activist and journalist,
Rossylongan House, Donegal and Argentina
and thence by descent
€1000 - 1500
