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Westminster backs Church Street dealers

Council to manage rents and favour antiques trade as tenants

Tribal gathering pace in regions

Auctioneers and vendors are quickly discovering that

Californian auctioneers unite to amend controversial new ‘collectables’ bill

Californian auctioneers unite to amend controversial

Wilkinson joins Stansted firm

Former Bonhams and Christie’s specialist Mark Wilkinson

New LA home for Christie’s

Christie’s is to open a new Los Angeles premises this

Pick of the Week: The Regent’s piano returns home

A grand piano commissioned by George IV in 1821 is

Bid Barometer – issue 2288

From thesaleroom.com

All the fun of a big sale at the NEC fair

Charles Hunt’s evocative painting All the Fun of the

News In Brief

A gold and ivory ring that was given by the young Napoleon

Portugal’s rich seam

From noble jewels to semi-precious gems, a show in May will celebrate a ‘golden period’ of Portuguese jewellery in the 18th century. Here we preview the exhibition and then present other recent and forthcoming sale highlights.

Cummings crafts at Tiffany

This Tiffany gold necklace and earclip suite composed

‘Good forms and good work’

In the chapter titled ‘Modern Jewellery’ in her taste-making

The spoils of many marriages

This late 19th century/early 20th century ruby cameo

Regional gems

This Edwardian emerald, pearl and diamond pendant by

Giuliano revival

A textbook Renaissance style jewel by Carlo Giuliano

Sotheby’s

Much like René Lalique, Louis Comfort Tiffany’s successful

Woolley & Wallis

The rivière – one of the most popular and enduring

Furniture rarities raise morale

Godwin cabinet and Arbus commode count as the top highlights in West Sussex

Going Gothic, super Staffs and terrific tankard

Dominated as they were by furniture, the March sales

Spring opener creates an upbeat mood

Generally regarded as a guide of things to come, the

Petroliana fuels collector demand

The collective noun ‘petroliania’ may be unfamiliar

Vendor’s happiness at £7800 scroll result

A piece of Russian porcelain and an Asian painting

Sales double up Degas and Gros

Family collections of the two French artists present contrasting propositions for the market

Degas in other auctions

While Degas’ youthful drawings produced some notable

A view from the Degas family

Marielle Barde, Edgar Degas’ great-neice, was one of

New view of anti-slavery heroine

Library of Congress and museum buy album with previously unseen abolitionist image

Horsepower fails in face of the atmosphere

Shown here is the most famous plate from Otto von Guericke’s

Pearls printed by the Soncinos

A collection of ethical maxims, proverbs and moral

Fresh Welsh wonders

One or two highlights from the March 29 sale by Bonhams

Cupboard now far from bare

Sold for a record $9000 (£7200) in a March 25 sale

Elvis gets the GI blues

Torn, punched with holes, creased, wrinkled and showing

Amicably yours

A bid of €29,000 (£25,085) – some seven times the estimate

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Sworders of Stansted Mountfitchet is holding its next

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This Charles Robert Ashbee (1863-1942) silver cup and

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Wilkinson’s Auctioneers of Doncaster is offering 614

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Major works by 20th century abstract artist Sir Terry

Bomberg and Borough brilliance

London gallery highlights the influential modern painter and the wider circle he inspired

Why the Guus house is a jolly feast for the senses

Maastricht in March. It’s difficult to think of anything

Shop talk – St Martin’s Antiques Centre

In the continuing series looking through the keyhole

5 Questions

Nick Arkell is one of the owners of Walton House Antiques

Antiques fair helps Petworth thrive

Petworth has faced some speculation about its future

A challenge right on cue

The apparent decline in passing trade is a subject

Trees blossom in fruitful Big Apple photo auctions

The cusp of March to April is traditionally photo time

Paris

A sale devoted to European silver at Sotheby’s Paris

Massachusetts

A 600-lot sale devoted to Asian art held by Tremont

Paris

This pastel portrait by Maurice Quentin de la Tour

Bac to the future

Charles Rattray was a tobacconist and blender of fine

BRITISH AND IRISH BOOK AUCTIONS

Apr 19*@ Book & Ephemera Section, BSA Auctions

Burgoin loves the buzz of salvage

Swallow director looks forward to a summer series of events kicking off at Ripley Castle

Muck and brass: Yorkshire delight

Helen Bowman and Ben Wray of Bowman Fairs launched

Cattle market in print form

This framed limited edition print is Cattle Market

Plenty of tomb in Oxford

This weekend Oxford hosts the PBFA’s 100-dealer antiquarian

Fox & Moon down the mine

As Fox & Moon Fairs, Tony Crellin has been running

Welsh gardens event is a growth market

Since its launch eight years ago, Derwen Fairs’ antiques

First scientific fair cancelled

The first of the biannual Antique Scientific Instrument

Sworders ready for Christie’s veteran to make his mark

Pinball machines, Francis Bacon paintbrushes and bear

Lawrences backs ‘beautiful borderland’ display

Lawrences of Crewkerne is co-sponsoring a major new

People

Dr David MacGregor, a longstanding and experienced

Then & now

News as reported from the ATG Archive

An artist’s view on ARR debate

MADAM – As someone with a foot in both artist and auctioneer

Constant committee task to keep market clean

MADAM – Having read your story about the reappearance