Rare Dutch glass goblet sails in to take €50,000

Rediscovered during a routine valuation, a wheel-engraved glass

Dreweatts reveals record turnover for a UK provincial auction house

Dreweatts has posted a 26% jump in annual

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Happy for once to avoid business boom time

A routine valuation day at Chiswick Auctions led

Obituary – Bashir Wali Mohamed (1939-2026)

The world of Islamic art has lost one

Russell Taylor books sale starts online

The Private Library Book Company is offering for

Lake District furniture maker Webb Davies makes a splash with a 1949 bedroom suite

Stanley Webb Davies chestnut Arts & Crafts chest

After success of debut edition, Classic Art London announces 2026 delights

Sunset on Boar’s Hill, Oxford by William

Thatcher who became a cover star

Described as “a remarkable convergence of Victorian social

Precious metals

On Thursday, March 5, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton

Valuation day evacuation scare

A routine valuation day at Chiswick Auctions led

Irish auction as salvage firm shuts

clock tower dating to c.1920s attributed to Spitalfields

1896 Olympics medal gets away

The winner’s medal from the first Olympic Games

Gold price reaches an all-time high

The gold price reached yet another all-time high

Exempted ivory sells in Norfolk

ivory netsuke, £1700 at TW Gaze. The Edo

Forum to sell last stock from Dutch dealership

With the recent retirement of Allard Schierenberg and

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Online buying: realised prices at auctions on thesaleroom.com

Changing tastes

1. Two views of a metamorphic diamond, ruby,

A relic of Edward IV in Mayfair centre

Grays Antiques in Mayfair, close to Bond Street

Recalling the golden age of pink topaz

The golden age of topaz was the 18th

Cameras that turn bidders’ heads

Contrasting contraptions both sell for strong five-figure sums in salerooms north and south

Chinese makers got their skates on to take advantage of export market

Among the most desirable of the Chinese export

Sublime Swiss design

Sublime Harmony orchestral music box by George

Praise be to Codd

It has been estimated there are between 500

Going, going, gone with a bang

A decade ago V&A curators used an X-ray

Cornish art comes from renowned dealer

The sale of Cornish Art, Fine Art &

Mouseman furniture finds fans

A Mouseman single wardrobe with panelled adzed decoration

Give it a Wurlitzer

The Wurlitzer Company was founded in the US

An art critic’s own taste tested

Sale of more than 300 works amassed by former journalist for The Times attracts a wide range of interest

Three Lowrys from two sources, then all offered in a single Berkshire sale

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From Preston to Dorset via a descendant

1. Marseilles Harbour by Duncan Grant, £15,000 at

Popular Hodgkin works display petal power

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On a single passage to India

Debut dedicated sale of items relating to the subcontinent achieves impressive results in south London

Best wishes from Agatha Christie

signed first edition of Agatha Christie’s Five Little

I still have Matterhorn on my mind

Dealer and mountaineer is fascinated by both the peak in real life and in a Doré depiction of first ascent

Bright and bold Boaba works

Nafir Boaba, Spaniola , oil on canvas, £1500

Those who laid the groundwork

Okabe Mineo, Ko-Seto ash-glazed shouldered vessel with incised

Austrian artistry in the spotlight

Vienna sale includes sought-after works by local creative talents Moser, Hoffmann and Marenzeller

Standing out as one of just three figures

Stehende Frau (Standing Woman) by Georg Kolbe, €1.12m

Bergé brought a natural approach to the Daum factory

1. Daum Pluviose series vase, €30,000 (£26,315) at

Money-spinner Märklin carousels

model 1131 Märklin carousel, €120,000 (£104,350) at Hohenstaufen.

Going for gold in Frankfurt

Visit to the Goldsmith by Simeon Buchbinder, €45,500

Bulky bronze bovine brings in a beefy €280,000 bid

monumental Ewald Mataré bronze cow, €280,000 (£245,615)

A rare Vizagapatam visitor

It has been some years since a good

Talking of Dorking again

Fifty years on, monthly event is still going strong

Hail a pop-up in a new venue

an interior view of Mason & Fifth’s latest

Brocantes create a buzz

Ruth Domanski and Shauna Donaldson launched an antiques