Antiques: Musical chairs and tables at sales that capture the imagination

Des O'Sullivan previews the upcoming sales by Woordwards and Victor Mee
Antiques: Musical chairs and tables at sales that capture the imagination

A Black Forest musical chair and table, left, and Daninsh wishbone chairs, below right,at Victor Mee; a pair of quartetto nests of tables, top right, at Woodwards in Cork.

Danish wishbone chairs, bronze boxing hares, a 19th-century French oak refectory table and a Black Forest musical chair are included among nearly 1,000 lots at online evening sales by Victor Mee this Tuesday and Wednesday (July 22-23).

There is nothing in this eclectic selection to prevent the imagination of a collector from soaring to new and unexplored heights. Where to place a pair of cast-iron pier caps in the form of a stag standing on a ball? 

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