For sale: Robert Kime design from the home of King Charles

Des O'Sullivan previews the Irish and oriental artefacts under the hammer in Durrow

A woodblock print by Hiroshi Yoshida from a West Cork collection at Sheppards.

A West Cork collection of 18th-century Irish and oriental artefacts assembled by an investment banker is included in four days of sales with more than 1,800 lots at Sheppards in Durrow next week. Among the lots from West Cork is a set of Japanese woodblock prints from the series Seto inland sea by Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950), a pair of 19th-century Meissen parakeets and a pair of 19th-century Meissen plates.

This blue ground with trellis panel Donegal runner at Sheppards was supplied by Robert Kime to Clarence House.