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Scottish Field’s round-up of the salerooms, interesting lots and prices

MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL

A Liberty & Co 12-piece silver and turquoise mounted dressing table set is to be sold at Bonhams auctioneers in Edinburgh. Featuring in their Home & Interiors sale on 16 January, the lot will comprise a rectangular tray, two frames, three brushes, a hand mirror, glove stretchers and a small tray with two pin jars, each set with cabochon turquoise. It is estimated to make between

£1,000 and £1,500.

FROM SCOTLAND WITH LOVE

Sotheby’s annual sale of Scottish Art took place on 20 November. Some highlights of the sale were Roses in a Glass Vase by Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell (pictured) which sold for £125,000 and Winter Rose by Charles Rennie Mackintosh which made £100,000.

Thirsty work

Lyon & Turnbull is holding their inaugural Whisky and Spirits Sale in Edinburgh on 5 December 2018. With demand for quality whisky outstripping supply, this is an opportunity for collectors to snap up some rare drams. A highlight to look forward to is a rare miniature from the long-lost Orkney distillery of Stromness, which closed pre-WWII in 1928.

OVER THE ASKING

In the year of the 150th anniversary of the visionary’s birth, Lyon & Turnbull sold two rare armchairs designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh for £187,500. The oak armchairs were valued at £30,000-£50,000 each and were designed for the men’s Billiards and Smoking Rooms which occupied the top two floors above Miss Cranston’s Argyle Street Tea Rooms in Glasgow.