Family reunited with medals after ATG appeal

Found in a freezer

Jewellery discovered next to joint of meat

The Irish rebel who became an art aficionado

Dublin auction house Whyte’s will be offering works

Stewart takes over from Tad Smith as Sotheby’s CEO

Sotheby’s has appointed Charles F Stewart as chief

Hadrian reigns supreme in Classic Week

Christie’s latest ‘Classic week’ in New York raised

‘Cimabue’ Christ rises to eighth-highest price

A panel ascribed to the Italian artist Cimabue (c.1240-1302)

Lisa Lloyd launches first antiques shop venture

Dealer and former auction house specialist Lisa Lloyd

Works by art market favourite Cedric Morris come to auction

Newcastle-upon-Tyne saleroom Anderson &

Buyer gets claws into rare St James’s

This sculptural white porcelain group of Ganymede and

Bid Barometer

Online buying: realised prices at auctions on thesaleroom.com

Porthia Prints products appear in Edinburgh

The Lyon & Turnbull Modern Made sale in

Precious metals

On Friday, November 1, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton

News in Brief

A rare handwritten letter by Jane Austen (1775-1817)

Return of Avery’s ʻlost’ menagerie

‘Dream’ Martinware cache from family of factory patron surfaces for sale in Berkshire. Anne Crane reports

Collector with an eye for the birds

A sale at Rago Auctions (25% buyer’s premium) in its

Bird brains

A brief introduction to the genius of the Martin Brothers of Southall by Roland Arkell

Five key dates in the modern history of Martinware collecting

1978 British art pottery specialist Richard Dennis

Two more Martin collections

A large selection of around 250 lots of Martin Brothers

Spotlight on the design process

Ceramics, furniture, glass and figure highlights from a range of sales under same banner

Aussie name to watch

A buoyant specialist subject in its own right, studio

Nicholson lights up Somerset sale

Simple still-life of flowers showcases the Mod Brit artist’s love of colour and luminosity

UNDER £3250

Good art at a great price in regional sales

View of Swansea street before the bombs

1940s view of Swansea described as ‘historically important’

Carr creates his own interest

Morris record takes the headlines but his pupil is also in demand at same sale

Drought supplies ample artistic inspiration for Mod Brit duo

The year after Cedric Morris painted his verdant Foxgloves

Thomson travels up north

First work in photographer’s classic coverage of China and its people makes £48,000

Harry Potter casts spell on bidders

Code locked in a briefcase for two decades, a finely

Melville in demand

Two books from Herman Melville’s library, both volumes

Maps make their mark with prices far beyond estimates

Focusing on south-east Asia, a 90-lot map section in

British and Irish book auctions

Nov 4-5 *

Arabic printing pioneer

A 1547 translation into Arabic of Euclid’s Elementa

Golf guide chips in for a sport surprise

Golf books do not bring as many really high prices

Previews: Up to £1000

Back in 1984 the Royal Doulton factory was planning

Previews: £1001 - £5000

A collection of fire marks which were previously on

Previews: £5001 - £30,000

A rare pair of famille rose ‘export’ porcelain wall

Previews: £30,000 plus

Brothers George (1850-1925) and Thomas Woodall (1849-1926)

Glossary

A longer list of art market terms appears at antiquestradegazette.com/glossary

Dial in for clocks by great makers

Dealer marks 25 years on Kensington Church Street with an exhibition of English big names

5 Questions

Jeroen Markies (right) of Jeroen Markies Art Deco is

We like your way of inking

An early Wemyss Victoria pattern ink stand decorated

The web shop window

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers

Cotswolds show venue search finds a spectacular setting

Organisers of the long-running Cotswolds Art &

Fair aims at fine arts revival

Organising team of Paris event is the same as Salon du Dessin and operates on same model

Dealer makes his debut

London Old Master dealer Rafael Valls is showing for

Mancini pastel portrait

London dealer Callisto Fine Arts is one of the galleries

Camel connection

New to Fine Arts Paris this year is Paris tapestry

Form favourite

Galerie Trebosc & Van Lelyveld from Paris

Militia man marches to Paris

Eugène Delacroix’s (1798-1863) oil and pencil on canvas

Buying at Auction - a general guide

Always read the auctioneer’s terms and conditions for full details.

Artist’s Resale Right

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Markets are top for the props

Special loading area created to cope with increased buying from film and TV companies

Polish poster touch

This distinctive poster with its saw-edged image was

York hosts ceramics fair for second year

Forty selected ceramicists will be selling their work

Textiles and tribal

Thirty of the top textiles and tribal art dealers will

A frivolous selection of bog-standard stories

You wait for a story about a toilet to arrive and then

Antiques coverage

Businessman Nick Radclyffe and his family run Foxdenton

Golden toilet theft arrests

Arrests have been made in relation to the theft of

They don’t like it up ’em…

More refined items are available in Chorley’s Cotswolds

On a roll

Catalogued handily as ‘unused’, a Second World War-style