Antiques: We preview the festive round of auctions in Ireland 

Des O'Sullivan brings the latest news from auction houses and galleries at home and abroad and has some dates for your diary

This pair of large silver sauceboats by Matthew West, Dublin, 1794, come up at the At Home sale at James Adam next Tuesday.

Christmas is coming and there is still time to pick up stuff. In fact next week is unusually busy with a raft of last-minute Christmas auctions.

Given that the need to make merry is very great under the sorry circumstances of this year a pair of very large Irish George III silver sauceboats at the James Adam At Home sale next Tuesday might be just the thing for the festive Christmas table.