Sunday (March 8th)
Adam's, 26 St Stephen's Green, Dublin 2. Sunday Interiors Auction: 80 per cent of lots sold. An Irish George III silver four- branch table centrepiece épergne €12,000 (€12,000- €15,000); a satinwood and marquetry-inlaid kidney-shaped writing desk €4,200 (€1,000-€2,000); a 19th century equestrian painting Portrait of a Grey in a Stable by Samuel Spode €2,700 (€2,000-€3,000); a pair of 19th century carved and painted timber decoy ducks €700(€300-€400); a German porcelain 'Fashion Lady' doll by Cuno & Otto Dressel €340 (€300-€500); a cased pair of silver salt cellars in the form of scallop shells, made in London in 1788, €240 (€200-€400). A silver trowel, with green- stained ivory handle, presented in 1792 to the Hon Richard Annesley to mark the laying of the foundation stone for Annesley Bridge over the River Tolka at Fairview in Dublin, estimated at €6,000-€8,000 failed to sell.
Wednesday (March 11th)
Christie's, London. The Opulent Eye sale. A white marble figure of a nymph, entitled The Coming of Spring, on pedestal, by 19th century American sculptor William Couper £194,500 (£70,000- £100,000).
