Items fit for a castle in Clohamon House sale

Items from Clohamon House in Co Wexford, home for many years of Sir Richard and Lady Levinge, provide the core for next Friday's auction to be conducted by Hamilton Osborne King at the RDS in Dublin. A number of lots originally came from the neo-Gothic Knockdrin Castle, Co Westmeath, home of the Levinge family until the 1940s.

Items from the castle include a 19th-century ormolu five-branch centrepiece and a pair of four-branch candelabra, all by Elkington (estimate £3,000-£5,000 for each of these two lots). Also once part of Knockrin's furnishings is a pair of mahogany and brass-mounted two-tier circular dumb waiters, which date from around 1800 (£10,000-£15,000).

There is enough Irish furniture among the almost-600 lots to merit special mention. The finest pieces include an 18th-century mahogany serving table, its front centred on a tablet featuring an urn and swags (£10,000-£15,000), and an early 19th-century Cork mahogany and rosewood cross-banded sideboard from Cork (£3,000-£5,000).

Other Irish lots are an early 19th-century mahogany, boxwood line-inlaid and rosewood-banded supper table (£2,500-£4,000), a mahogany breakfast table dating from circa 1830 (£2,000-£3,000), a mid-19th century flame mahogany wardrobe by William & Gibton (£3,000-£5,000) and a mahogany circular drum table in the style of Mack, Williams & Gibton (£4,000-£6,000). There are also a handful of pieces from the James Hicks workshops and, rather charmingly, a pen-over-pencil caricature of the man himself by John Burke (£200-£300), showing Hicks with hands in his pockets and a cigarette in his mouth. The Hicks furniture lots are a set of 12 mahogany dining chairs, including two open armchairs (£10,000-£15,000), and a rectangular mahogany breakfront display cabinet (£5,000-£8,000).

Finally, among the pictures section of this sale are two items of note. One is a watercolour by Owen Fahy of the proposed monument to the Duke of Wellington in the Phoenix Park (£1,500-£2,000), the other an oil exhibited at the RHA in 1926 by Sean Keating of a fireman (£20,000-£25,000).

Regency card table may fetch up to £4,500

Malahide auctioneer, Denis Drum expects a Regency rosewood fold-over card table with brass inlay to perform particularly well at an auction on his premises next Thursday evening. It carries an estimate of £3,500-£4,500, almost the same figure as a pair of Sean O'Sullivan drawings dating from 1944 and showing west of Ireland interior scenes.

Other lots include a large Robert Montgomery oil, Shipping and Sailing Scene off a Rocky Coast, and a Regency Cuban mahogany breakfast table with ribbed apron, both with the same estimate of £2,000-£2,500, a mahogany two-door cabinet bookcase (£1,000-£1,500) and a set of six carved Chippendale-style dining-room chairs, which date from the late 19th/early 20th century (£800-£1,200).

Burr walnut dining-room suite for £1,200-plus

A 1930s burr walnut dining-room suite, including a table and a set of six matching chairs, is expected to fetch £1,200-£1,500 at next Tuesday's auction at the Thomas Adam salerooms. A George III mahogany tip-up table carries the same estimate.

A Victorian grandfather clock is also on offer, with an estimate of £700-£900, the same as for a George IV secretaire desk.

1920s diamond bracelet may sell for £16,000

An abundance of jewellery may be found at O'Reilly's auction rooms in Dublin next Wednesday, when lots include a diamond open-work circular and baguette-cut panel bracelet from the 1920s (expected to fetch £14,000-£16,000) and a solitaire diamond ring of some 3.7 carats (£12,000-£14,000). Among the silver on offer is a late 18th-century nutmeg grater made in London (£300-£400) and a silver mounted shell with several engravings on its surface (£450-£500). The auction starts at 1 p.m.