While auctions are different, the selection is as wide as ever 

From furniture to jewellery and from wool winders to portraits, here's an overview of lots to go under the hammer soon

A giltwood console table with Carrara marble top at James Adam.

THE unfolding vista of auction schedules is different in 2020. Usually, towards the end of August, thoughts turn to a coming season that seems quite distant. Not so in this benighted year.

In the coming week there will be antique and interiors sales at James Adam in Dublin, RJ Keighery in Waterford and at Mullen's of Laurel Park in Bray. A timed online jewellery auction runs at O'Reilly's of Francis Street in Dublin from next Wednesday to Friday and a preview exhibition of Sotheby's Irish art sale, including the collection of Sir Michael Smurfit, runs by appointment at the RHA Gallery in Dublin from August 27-30.