Antique and fine arts: Portraits and engravings in collection from Passage house

Des O’Sullivan takes a look at the forthcoming auction of furniture and art at Lynes and Lynes in Co Cork.

Family portraits, miniatures, engravings and furniture from the Hingston family, who lived at Horsehead House at Passage, Co Cork, until the 1960s, will feature at the sale by Lynes and Lynes in Carrigtwohill at 11am on November 26.

There is, for example, a fine Cork Regency mahogany dining table and a set of 14 Georgian Cork six bar chairs. Each is estimated at €4,000-€6,000.