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Daniel O’Connell's gold pocket watch

T he Liberator’s gold pocket watch (Lot 694: est. €4,000 to €6,000) is going under the hammer at Fonsie Mealy’s Chatsworth Autumn Antique Sale, which takes place in Castlecomer, Co Kilkenny, on Tuesday, September 27 and Wednesday, September 28, from 10.30am.

The watch was commissioned by Daniel O’Connell from Donegan and Wright of Dublin and inscribed with his home address “Derrynane Abbey, Co. Kerry.” It was gifted to the Ffrench family of Castle Ffrench, Galway, and passed down to the current vendor. The sale also includes ‘The Daniel O’Connell Jug’ (Lot 693: est. €1,500 to €2,000). The jug is believed to have been presented to Daniel O’Connell while he was in prison. It comes with several signed and witnessed letters. See fonsiemealy.ie.

Sheppard’s Sheppard’s auction of furniture, paintings and object d’art from “Hatherton, Dartry, Dublin 6 and other important estates” takes place in Durrow, Co Offaly, on Tuesday, September 27 and Wednesday, September 28, beginning at 10am.

Expect all kinds of everything, including a number of Chinese vases with roof-busting potential. Likewise, an interesting Chinese cloisonné scholar’s box (Lot 910: est. €4,000 to €6,000) dating from the 18th or 19th century. It has two scroll-shaped compartments over a rectangular box and measures around 12cm high x 18cm wide.

There is also a large (514 x 446cm) Dun Emer Carpet, made in Dublin around 1930 (Lot 42: est. €3,000 to €5,000). It has a taupe background with “polychrome cartouches depicting stylised swan”. It’s spectacular. View it wearing dark glasses. See sheppards.ie.

Whyte’s Jack B Yeat’s The Changing Dawn (Lot 23: est. €250,000 to €350,000) is a potential show-stealer at Whyte’s sale of Irish & International Art on Monday, September 26. It’s a typically transcendent view of a young man glancing out to sea and dates from the Peak Yeats period.

When it was shown in Victor Waddington show in 1946, someone described it as “a kind of Vico Road: Morning Glory”. Another Yeats painting from the same show, River Mouth (Lot 26: est. €200,000 to €300,000) is also existential, but in a darker nocturnal way. Both are being exhibited together for the first time in 76 years. See whytes.ie.

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