Autumn’s golden opportunities

Trade gears up for Chippendale anniversary

Furniture dealers join museums to mark tercentenary of craftsman’s birth in 2018

Pick of the Week: Marvellous Maltese marquetry

Maltese furniture commands a premium – and not simply

Mayor confirms art squad return

The Mayor of London has confirmed the Met’s Art and

Dated armorial Bow proves no mug

Documentary pieces of early English porcelain always

Italy reaches compromise on export regulations

Italy has approved new laws relaxing the country’s

Master Drawings spreads its wings in NY

Sculpture and painting included to create ‘critical mass’ and maintain quality

Yeats sale generates controversy and bidding at Sotheby’s

The sale of the Yeats collection at Sotheby’s in London

Sale of ‘lifetime’s passion’ for Channel Islands silver

Martel Maides in St Peter Port, Guernsey will sell

Pick of the Week: How to make a Maltese cross: try to outbid him

Pick of the Week: How to make a Maltese cross: try

Bid Barometer – issue 2311

From thesaleroom.com

Outsiders come for sale in Newcastle

One of the UK’s largest collections of Outsider art

News In Brief

Old Master dealer Colnaghi is opening a gallery in

The recipe for reviving mahogany

Unseen contents of near-derelict Little Barford Manor include top-rank Georgian furniture

Beckwith pair hits the target

Top seller at guns specialist Southams (15% buyer’s

Fifth Kruger pulls £4700 in softer Beswick market

Perhaps the rarest of all Beswick’s output is the pit

Bowled over by China

A selection of good online illustrations plus a brief

A Spicer terrier with a tale

Early to spot the rise of interest in taxidermy, Tennants’

Narwhal’s twisted appeal

Narwhal tusks, once sold for colossal sums to Elizabethan

Scoping out a new London specialism

Cameras, scientific and medical instruments specialist

Traditional values make welcome return to regions

Sales in Salisbury and Cambridge find the middle market for period works in buoyant mood

The Wolfe family at play in Wheatley’s Irish period

An Irish family portrait attributed to Francis Wheatley

Lots from the Civil War in Exeter

German railroad peepshow and Elliot’s Birds and Beasts add to single-owner collection in Devon

Comets, astronauts and out of this world selfies

A ‘Glory of Science’ sale held by Bloomsbury Auctions

Chicago before the inferno

An exceptionally rare bird’s eye view of Chicago before

Air-raid reading for children

Mostly sold by Woolworth’s stores at 3d each, Mighty

Previews: Up to £500

This bronze medal was one of 500 struck to commemorate

Previews: £501 - £2000

This c.1760 Battersea enamel plaque depicts Maria Gunning

Previews: £2001 - £5000

A Victorian vanity case still containing personal items

Previews: £5001 - £30,000

Like his contemporaries Ferdinand Preiss and Demetre

Previews: £30,000 plus

After nearly 150 years on Bond Street, Mayfair jewellers

Shop talk – Bridgnorth Antique Centre

Whitburn Street, Bridgnorth, WV16 4QT

5 Questions

Cambridge Fine Art’s Nicholas Lury is an exhibitor

Weiss honours his father’s legacy

Dealer Mark Weiss specialises in Tudor and Stuart portraiture

Gerrard’s Welsh jewels

Anglesey Landscape IV, pictured below, is one of around

British potters steal the limelight in New York

Lucie Rie, Hans Coper and second-generation UK artists dominate sale of private collection

John Ward

John Ward was born in Islington, London, in 1938 and

Jennifer Lee

Born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, in 1956, Jennifer

A head for the right figure

Leading the Annette McGuire Cravens collection sale

A Birmingham stalwart in Oxford

Mural painter, stained glass artist and landscapist

BRITISH AND IRISH BOOK AUCTIONS

Oct 3@ Books & Collectables, Fonsie Mealy - Kilkenny

Head for the tent for top trading

Biannual fair held at Burton Court delivers great results says established decorative dealer

Poster girl for cult film collection

This film poster, left, was designed by the Czech artist

Fine setting for a Welsh assembly

The long-running biannual antiques, art and design

A booklover’s comedy française

Bibliomania has been running for three years at the

Help us find the missing Bukovac

MADAM – I am writing to inform your readers of my search

‘Primitive’ art no more

MADAM – I very much enjoyed your features on tribal

Appointments

Bonhams has appointed Jessica Zhang as its representative

Obituary – Aurea Carter (1938-2017)

We regret to announce the death of Aurea Carter aged