Osborne’s ‘Boy on a Donkey in Snowy Landscape’ estimated at £10,000-£15,000

Viceroy’s star and badge insignia – included in the auction of items of the late Mary, Duchess of Roxburghe – sold for £21,250

Star of Order of St Patrick hidden in trunks filled with tiaras and other family treasures

Sotheby’s to auction collection of paintings from the estate of Mary, Duchess of Roxburghe, who died aged 99, last year

The annual Christmas auction of Irish art suggests that the market is in good health

Paul Henry, Jack B Yeats and Walter Osborne retain their popularity at end of lacklustre year

Lavery’s portrait of sugar dynasty’s Lady Lyle in Dublin auction

2014 is likely to see continued buoyancy in the international fine art and antiques market and further improvement in Ireland

Abstract art is a hard sell in Ireland where collectors prefer traditional, representational art

Paintings had been consigned to sale by the heirs of the late Mervyn Solomon

A painting once stolen by Martin Cahill among auction highlights

Roderic O’Conor’s vision of the South of France tops the bill