Auctions

Auctions:Friday (March 16th) Christie's, London. Auction of art and antiques from Mount Kennedy house, Co Wicklow (estate of the late Francis Cecil Quinn, Ireland's Honorary Consul-General in Nigeria): a painting, Venus and Cupid in a Wooded Landscape by Henry Tresham, £46,850 (£20,000-£30,000); an Irish Georgian mahogany side table, £30,000 (£30,000-£50,000); and, an Irish 19th century ormolu hexagonal hall lantern £9,375 (£7,000-£10,000.

Forthcoming Auctions:Sunday (March 25th) Hegarty's Auctioneers, The Bypass, Bandon, Co Cork. Antiques and art auction at 3pm. Cork Georgian mahogany foldover tea table €2,000-€4,000; Cork silver sauce boat by William Egan €400-€600.

Tuesday (March 27th) Adams Blackrock, 38 Main Street, Blackrock, Co Dublin. Auction at 11am. 350 lots ranging from Afghan rugs to taxidermy. A Victorian mahogany dining table, with five extra leaves, €4,000- €6,000; a Grotrian Steinweg mahogany-cased piano €2,000-€4,000; a diamond tennis bracelet €2,500-€2,800; a set of six Waterford Crystal wine glasses €60-€100.

Forthcoming Fairs:Saturday and Sunday (March 24th and 25th) Irish International Art and Antiques Fair, RDS, Ballsbridge Dublin. Today 11am-7pm; tomorrow 11am-6pm. Wheelbarrow brooch, 1880, €8,900 at the Courtville Antiques stand.

Sunday (March 25th) Art and Antiques Fair, Clontarf Castle Hotel, Dublin 3. 11am-6pm.