Auction results

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, February 26th-28th Sheppard’s, Durrow, Co Laois. A 61cm-high Chinese bronze Buddha, €80,000 (€20,000-€40,000); a pair of Chinese Qing period Yuhuchunping copper-red glazed vases, €52,000 (€12,000-€18,000); Ducks On A Pond At Kilmurry, a watercolour by Mildred Anne Butler, €12,000 (€5,000-€8,000); a 19th-century French wall–mounted clock, by Paul Sormani (1817-1870), Paris, €10,000 (€3,000-€5,000); a pair of 19th-century porcelain parrots, €1,600 (€400-€600).

Forthcoming auctions

Sunday, March 3rd Adam’s, 26 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin. Auction at 11am. Bloomsbury, oil-on-canvas, by John Frederick Herring The Elder, €20,000-€25,000; Chinese photograph albums compiled by an Irish member of the Shanghai Municipal Police, €2,000-€3,000.

Forthcoming fairs

Sunday, March 3rd The Dublin City Book Fair, Tara Towers Hotel, Merrion Road, Dublin 4. 11am-5pm.

Sunday, March 3rd Antiques Fair, Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, Golden Lane, off South Great Georges Street, Dublin 2. 11am-6pm .

Saturday and Sunday, March 9th and 10th Two-day Art and Antiques Fair, The South Court Hotel, Limerick. 11am-6pm daily.