Antiques and fine art: Your guide to upcoming events

Dates to note in your diary and we offer an insight into what to look out for at auctions of interest at home and abroad

This North Italian coffer at Victor Mee's sale in Cavan next week was once at Waterford Castle.

PALACE COLLECTION

The Palace Collection is the title of a two-day online-only sale by Victor Mee on October 28 and 29. Lot 642 is a 17th-century North Italian coffer on stand from Waterford Castle, lot 330 is a French giltwood and gesso side table with marble top. There is a collection of books by John Millington Synge from the Sygne family home and an Irish mahogany coffer once owned by the Synge family. Lot 772 is a 19th-century revenue officials probing tool in a leather case. This was designed to find illicit poitin in haystacks.