Monday (May 2nd): Victor Mee Auction Rooms, Cloverhill, Co Cavan. Scott Shipley motorbike, €5,570 (€2,500-€3,500); 19th century dog cart made by Cooper Dwelly of Chard Ilminster, €2,350 (€1,500-€2,000); and a 1939 Gurden American child's pedal car, €400 (€250-€350).
Tuesday (May 3rd):Matthews Auction Rooms, The Square, Oldcastle, Co Meath. William IV extending dining table, €4,400 (€3,000-€5,000); set of 16 O'Reilly Patent Victorian dining chairs, €3,500 (€3,000-€5,000); Victorian burr walnut, half-tester double bed, €1,200 (€1,000-€2,000); Regency rosewood brass inlaid fold-over card table, €1,700 (€1,500-€2,500).
Wednesday (May 4th):Mealy's, Castlecomer, Co Kilkenny, fine and decorative art sale, 65 per cent of lots sold. Thatched Cottages, West of Ireland by Charles Vincent Lamb €3,300 (€3,500-€5,500); a Regency brass-inlaid, rosewood games table €2,800 (€3,000-€5,000); a gold and tortoiseshell French bonbonnière (sweetbox) €2,200 (€700-€1,100).
Wednesday (May 4th): Christie's, New York. Impressionist and modern art sale. Les Peupliers by Claude Monet (oil-on-canvas, painted in 1891, depicting poplar tress by a river bank) made $22.5 million (€15 million).
Forthcoming auctions
Tomorrow: Mullen's, Laurel Park, Woodbrook, Bray, Co Wicklow. Antique furniture and fine art auction at noon with over 600 lots. Set of eight Regency mahogany dining room chairs, €2,000-€2,500; A 19th century mahogany-framed, long case clock, the white dial signed "M. Byrne, Wexford", €800-€1,200; a 91-piece Ironstone china dinner service, €300-€500; Killarney-ware workbox, €400-€600; Victorian banjo-shaped barometer, the dial signed "J. H. Stewart, 54 Cornhill, London", €120-€160; and a chrome and Bakelite telephone, €80-€120.
Monday (May 9th): Morgan O'Driscoll, Radisson Blu Hotel, Little Island, Cork. Art auction at 6.30pm. Spanish Fishing Village by Gerard Dillon, €20,000-€25,000; Music Session by William Conor, €14,000-€18,000; Dockyard by Markey Robinson, €10,000-€15,000; Country Kitchen by Mark O'Neill, €6,000-€8,000; Glencreagh, Co Donegal by James Humbert Craig, €6,000-€8,000.
Tuesday (May 10th): Oliver Usher Auctioneers, John Street, Kells, Co Meath. Antiques auction at 5pm. Furniture, pictures, guns, jewellery, silver, books and taxidermy. William IV two-door Library Bookcase, 12ft high by 6ft wide by Gillows of Lancaster, €3,000-€4,000; set of six William IV dining chairs, €600-€700; 19th century walnut telescopic dining table with two leaves, €400-€600; 19th century mahogany pedestal desk, €300-€500.
Forthcoming fairs
Tomorrow: Bunratty Antiques Fair, Bunratty Castle Hotel, Bunratty, Co Clare, 11am-6pm.
