Everything in the above photograph except the fireplace can be found in the James Adam Salerooms, where writer Polly Devlin's collection of antiques and paintings is being auctioned next Wednesday. Ms Devlin says of the items on offer that "they were bought for connotation and sentiment rather than condition or value."
Nonetheless, many of the lots from her former home on Dublin's Waterloo Road are certain be prove very valuable, since Ms Devlin possesses an eye for quality of the highest order. Typical of this is the Victorian carved giltwood oval overmantel mirror (lot 140, £2,000-£3,000) and the pair of small English pastoral landscapes from the late 18th century in their original carved giltwood frames (lot 43, £2,000-£3,000).
Other lots on view in the photograph include: no. 9, a pair of stipple engravings after Bartolozzi (£300-£500); no. 135, a pair of 19th-century brass-framed wall sconces (£1,000-£1,500); and lots 126a-128 inclusive, a 19th- century brass-framed fender (£600-£800), a Victorian brass-topped fireguard (£150-£250) and a Victorian toleware fuel bin of oval urn form (£200-£300).
The sale begins at 11.30 a.m.