Kilkenny auctioneer Loughlin Bowe's recent sale at Kilnacourt House in Co Laois saw a 19th century gilt pier mirror sell for £2,300 and a set of eight Victorian dining chairs make £1,955. A Regency card table fetched £1,900 and a three-tier dumb-waiter from the same period made £1,605. A Regency rosewood sofa went for £1,150, a pair of small 19th century cast-iron garden seats went under the hammer for £1,100 and a small pair of Neapolitan school paintings fetched £805.