Mahogany dining table for £5,000-£7,000

Meath auctioneer Michael Mullen expects an early 19th-century mahogany dining room table to sell for £5,000-£7,000 at a sale in his premises next Tuesday. This is by far the highest estimate for the occasion, where other items on offer include a Regency mahogany sofa table (estimate £1,500-£2,000), a George III mahogany and rosewood breakfast table and a Regency mahogany slope-front writing bureau (both £1,200-£1,500).

An inlaid Edwardian display cabinet is expected to fetch £600-£900 and an Edwardian inlaid mahogany etagere has an estimate of £400-£600.

Collection of Middleton works for sale in Belfast

There are 260 lots in next Wednesday's Irish art auction to be conducted by John Ross & Co of Belfast. Among the highlights of the sale are a small, private collection of work by Colin Middleton, with estimates between £1,000 and £8,000 sterling, while five Frank Egginton pieces from an English private collection are expected to fetch from £800 to £3,600.

Little-known Ulster artist Padraig Woods is represented by Point to Point Races (estimate £1,000-£1,500) and there are also pictures by Daniel O'Neill, Percy French, Frank McKelvey and Maurice Wilks among others.

Fine still-life by O'Conor may sell for £120,000 stg

A very fine still-life by Roderic O'Conor opens a sale of 20th-century art at Sotheby's London auction rooms next Wednesday. The oil on canvas, Nature Morte aux Pommes, was painted in Pont-Aven in 1894, the year in which he first met Gauguin.

A wonderfully rich work, in which tones of red are particularly to the fore, the picture comes from the collection formed by fine art insurance company, Hiscox plc and carries an estimate of £80,000-£120,000 sterling. Later on the same day, and also at Sotheby's, two oils by Jack Yeats come up for sale. The Clown among the People features the 19th-century Irish clown Johnny Patterson, seen by the artist during the latter's childhood and recalled in a number of other pictures. It is expected to fetch £80,000-£120,000.

A second Yeats, Readers and Non Readers, painted in 1948 and showing a number of men in what might be a club, has an estimate of £30,000-£50,000. In addition, the auction offers three works by Sir John Lavery, the finest of them a luscious portrait of his daughter, Eileen, painted circa 1910 (£40,000-£60,000). The two other pictures, from Lavery's later periods in North Africa, are expected to make between £20,000 and £40,000.