Trade’s latest challenge to Ivory Act could delay the near-total ban until spring 2020

Bids pour in for Asian art

An £800,000 teapot and a Kangxi rediscovery among regional sale highlights

Gentleschi’s Lucretia takes record in Paris

Artemisia Gentileschi’s painting Lucretia, which was

German violin instrumental in bid for overlooked box lot

A good-quality violin linked to the German maker Jacobus

Jewels come in from the cold at £68,000

Thirty pieces of antiquarian jewellery discovered next

Du Boulay bonanza

Duke’s sale had been headlined by items from a local

Porthia Prints take pride of place

An archive of material relating to Porthia Prints

Bid Barometer

Online buying: realised prices at auctions on thesaleroom.com

Insurance fire marks sell in a blaze of glory

The practice of placing a metal mark on a building

Precious metals

On Friday, November 15, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton

News in Brief

Bamfords’ Derby saleroom closed temporarily after heavy

It’s time to go our separate ways

Unsentimental decision to split Queen Anne silver tazza and tankard after 300 years together

Big names boost Aesthetic appeal at auction

Even during his lifetime Edward William Godwin complained

Bidders warm to rare globes

Bringing the highest price yet at one of Richard Edmonds’

Beastly Beswick rarities in demand

In the resilient Beswick market, collectors paid high

Real rail and the model variety

Hornby Dublo collectors fought spirited battles for

Star decorators from Desire Leroy to Joseph Bailey

The talented Sèvres factory decorator Desire Leroy

Wolley winds up to £4800

Most regionally made Georgian oak longcase clocks can

Marine sale that stays buoyant

Appetite remains for biannual specialist auction which is still a stalwart of the calendar

Royal yacht which sailed into obsolescence

This oil below depicts the Victoria & Albert

Napoleon rides high in the Cotswolds

Robert Hillingford (1826-1904) was a Victorian painter

Brews news: British Museum buys 19th century print

The British Museum has added this rare hand-coloured

UNDER £3000

Good art at a great price in regional sales

Licence to kill a Bond book

Instruction from author Fleming was thankfully not followed and first issue survives

The railway that carried escaped slaves to freedom

Sporting a distinctive hairstyle and beard that the

Lambarde on Anglo-Saxon laws

A rare work by William Lambarde, the antiquarian, writer

Inscription importance

While the binding, with Charles Ricketts’ familiar

British and Irish book auctions

Nov 19 The Cottesloe Military Library, Sotheby’s -

Previews: Up to £600

Catherine Southon’s sale at Farleigh Golf Club on November

Previews: £601 - £1000

This 15th century bronze harness pendant and suspender-bar

Previews: £1001 - £5000

The unusual dolphin-handled form sauceboat is by William

Previews: £5001 - £10,000

The top lot of the sale in Tennants’ Toys, Models &

Previews: £10,001 - £30,000

This rare 3ft (90cm) wide Louis Vuitton zinc and brass

London calling for 200 years

Dealer duo stage St James’s exhibition featuring views of the capital old and recent

Special birthday brings big barn finds

Rountree Tryon Galleries celebrates its 60th anniversary

5 Questions

Carlo Milano runs Callisto Fine Arts, where he deals

Mould makes his divine intervention

A portrait of a mystery sitter by Ambrose McEvoy (1877-1927)

Artist happy to chop and change

At various stages of painting Pear Still Life (1971)

The web shop window

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

Chelsea hosts book buyers and browsers

Organised by the ABA, this London fair is pitched at all levels of expertise and budgets

Another Brexit delay? Non, merci!

The latest delay to Brexit was not a source of cheer

Family values

The private collection of the late auctioneer Rudolf Neumeister was on offer at the saleroom bearing his name – which is now run by his daughter. Jonathan Franks reports

Saleroom’s seven heaven

Dorotheum (28/25/22/18% buyer’s premium) in Vienna

Snuff customer

In the first decades of the 19th century, watchmakers

Einstein surprise

One of the biggest surprises at Nagel’s (33% buyer’s

Final slice of Soo Pieng

In recent years, Geble (22.61% buyer’s premium) in

Pupil follows master’s example

It is no coincidence that a glass bowl designed by

Light and shadow

After training in Düsseldorf and Paris, where he had

Snail netsuke

During the late 18th century, schools of netsuke carving

Rococo couple in autumn

The first incarnation of the porcelain factory in Höchst

In a dream

Although her career as a photographer lasted only some

Schiele reveals his artistic manifesto

“There is no such thing as modern art, there is only

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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Bumper December at Ally Pally

Organiser IACF and large array of dealers looking forward to ‘lucrative’ time of year

Create a scandalous collection

The intriguing name for Benjamin Smith’s Norfolk business

Three in Yorkshire

1 Jaguar Fairs is at Wetherby Racecourse, near Harrogate

Anti-Money Laundering: Get ready for the latest directive

Whether we have Brexit or no Brexit, the European Union’s Fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive will come into effect in the UK on January 10 next year

Stop sitting on the fence and now back our ivory ban challenge

MADAM – “The course of justice often prevents it” –

Take care: copyright can cover contents

A lawyer writes:Legal action by Duchess of Sussex highlights an issue of concern to the art world