Fine Arts

Treasures from adventures in the East shine in Sheppard’s interiors auction

Among the lots in the auction house’s upcoming Interiors Sale are travel mementoes from Victorian and Edwardian tourists

Lot 317 Chinese School Young woman in a landscape estimate €500-700

For those who didn’t get to travel over the summer, a journey across continents and times can be had through the treasures coming under the hammer at Sheppard’s 394-lot Interiors Sale, which take place at the Durrow salesroom on Tuesday, September 5.

Connoisseurs wishing to build or enhance their Wunderkammer collection (or Cabinet of Curiosities) should take a look at Lot 15, a 19th-century Islamic brass bowl with animalia, leaf scroll and paterae engraved decoration. ...