Pared-back Modernist Loos clock chimes with buyer at £320,000

Longcase clock designed by Adolf Loos and made

Huanghuali armchairs owned by ‘Soviet spy’ sell at £600,000

A pair of Chinese huanghuali armchairs, formerly owned

Bottle of Arctic Ale bought at auction will be opened 150 years later for a fresh batch

Leading the brews headlines this week is the

US firm Freeman’s loses the Hindman name in rebrand

The US auction house group known as Freeman’s

Jane Seymour coin takes top spot in New Forest Hoard

Henry VIII crown bearing the cypher of Jane

Roar power: Rembrandt lion sketch guided at $15m-20m

Sotheby’s will offer the Rembrandt sketch Young Lion

Morris and Newton stand out as two sales achieve strong Modern British results

A string of notable five and six-figure prices

Precious metals

On Friday, November7, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton waspayingthe

News in brief

Fine Arts Paris ’ new president Xavier Eeckhout

Visual appeal: JMW Turner specs for sale

Bonhams’ sale of Books, Atlases and Manuscripts that

Bid Barometer

Online buying: realised prices at auctions on thesaleroom.com

Not so familiar – but still bringing in the big bids

Designs by lesser-known poster artists can nonetheless be highly sought after by collectors, as recent auction results demonstrate.

Music, movie, magic – entertainment poster highlights

An extensive selection of Beatles memorabilia sold by

How to buy an Eric Kennington for £200

By 1944 the Allies were well on top

Striking Suffragette image

The artist Margaret Bartels (1887-1932), who trained at

Feel the force

Comic Book Auction’s current timed online sale ending

Stacks of atmosphere

Poster specialist Antikbar of Chelsea will stage an

It’s on a knead to know basis

Bidders given a first slice of Britain’s ‘biggest collection of breadboards’ from museum in family home

Plaque brings together talents of two top Doulton artists

Doulton Burslem plaque by Charles Noke and William

Polar bears pair up in vase form

Royal Copenhagen ‘double polar bear’ vase, £7500 at

Not grim for Grimshaw up north

‘Two bidders going hell for leather’ race to £55,000 for scene by artist famed for atmospheric nocturns

Beatrix Potter’s creature comforts

Largest sale of its type since 1997 brings extraordinary group of books and memorabilia to Gloucestershire

Previews

This signed photograph of Winnie-the-Pooh author AA Milne

Maps destination decision looms

Story of major British cartography collection provides a good case study in how export licences operate

Portrait miniatures make rare public appearance

Above left: a c.1610-15 miniature by Isaac Oliver

Banging the drum for antiques

Fair held at auction house for five years now has become a stand-out event in the north of England

Carrington sketch nets $70,000

Drawing for mural design was first thought to be a lithograph

British ceramics stand out in Florida auctions

Lion & Unicorn (28% buyer’s premium) in Hollywood,

Soprano hits a high price

This hand-coloured daguerreotype was taken in 1856 by

Pasmore early work in demand

Works by British artist Victor Pasmore (1908-98) that

Land of Nod drifts off

The Land of Nod by Charles Sims, $19,000

Moorcroft coffee suits bidders’ tastes at Missouri sale

a three-piece Moorcroft Claremont sterling overlay coffee set,

The original and authoritative sales listing

This is a calendar of art, antiques and

High times indeed for a business

Operator of five centres across the UK hopes to acquire two more and has ambitious future plans

Former pubs that have not breathed their last after being transformed

Laurence Green, founder of Mancester architectural salvage business

‘The best one I’ve been to in a long time’

Dealers and visitors are full of praise for East Anglian event under new ownership

Mallalieu senses a link between art and sound

Writer, journalist and art historian Huon Mallalieu has

Obituary – Derek Newman (1956-2025)

Derek Newman, who died in September this year,