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The 43rd annual Irish Antique Dealers’ Association Fair (IADA) opens its doors from 25 to 28 September, offering an excellent opportunity to snap up the best – and increasingly rare – Irish antiques (see pages 91-92). Around 40 members of the IADA will exhibit furniture, silver, jewellery, ceramics and fine art at the Royal Dublin Society. Mitofsky Antiques are offering three items of lacquered furniture spanning three centuries, including a striking green lacquered 1950s armoire from France. O’Sullivan Antiques are showing a 12-piece suite of furniture supplied to Doneraile Court, Co. Cork in 1840 (Fig. 3), and a Chippendale bookcase cabinet, dated 1780. Connaught Antiques is offering an attractive pair of Victorian giltwood overmantle mirrors and an Edwardian mahogany secretaire made in London. For more information, visit www.iada.ie

A new ceramics event, Parcours de la Ceramique et des Arts du Feu, is launching in Paris (11-17 September), coinciding with the city’s biennale and the Parcours des Mondes tribal art fair (see pages 26-28 and 40-42). Around 20 European dealers will exhibit in galleries in the Louvre des Antiquaires and the Carré Rive Gauche. Highlights include a sumptuous Sèvres porcelain jug and stand, dated 1885-87, with V.B. Antiquités; a 17th-century Spanish gold lustre dish with Jan Roelofs Antiquairs; and a maiolica dish illustrating a scene from Ovid’s Metamorphoses with J.M Béalu & Fils (Fig. 2). Particularly appealing, not least for its novelty, is an 18th-century Sceaux faience bundle of asparagus with Belgian dealers Galerie Lamy. For further details, visit www.franceantiq.fr

Elsewhere in Paris, the Christophe Hioco Gallery (12 rue de Penthièvre, Paris; +33 (0) 172 70 33 28) is spotlighting a little-known area of Vietnamese art in ‘Bronzes of Vietnam: The symbolism of emotion’ (10 September-11 October). This collection of later art of the Dông Son culture and the early period of the Chinese colonisation of Vietnam, formed by the collector-dealer Pham Lan Huong, includes bronze perfume burners, lamps and pitchers. A highlight is an eight-centimetre-high lamp in the shape of a frog, thought to represent prosperity, as the frog’s song announces harvest-time.

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