Association launched to promote catalogue raisonnés

It was used to hold tennis balls then it sold for £3.3 million

It was used to hold tennis balls then it sold for £3.3

ICAF buys Peterborough antiques fair

The International Antiques & Collectors Fair (IACF)

London calling

For the British art and antiques trade, the summer

Footfall rises and sales top £3m for books in Battersea

Visitors to the ABA’s Firsts: London’s Rare Book Fair

Burne-Jones sketches head to Delaware museum via Cambridge

Two studies by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones for his

Caroline Penman: ‘Will anyone save Chelsea?’

Caroline Penman, organiser of the Chelsea Antiques

Mapmaking in progress

A pre-press version of a key map of colonial America

Bid Barometer

Online buying: realised prices at auctions on thesaleroom.com

ATG discounts on two Fellows special events

Auction house Fellows is holding two special events

Precious metals

On Friday, June 14, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton

News in Brief

The new date for Connect – The Independent Art Fair

Jensen proves a perfect bachelor

Chest attributed to Flemish-born London maker tops furniture from Worcestershire manor

Why EM Ginn’s Expert sounded perfect at £8500

The sale of a remarkable gramophone collection two

Arts & Crafts oak from the second and third generation

Mallams (20% buyer’s premium) offered 12 impeccably

Thornhill’s Chinaman strikes a chord in Ayr

More of a curiosity than a clock but a decorator’s

Augustus John’s painterly daughter

A portrait by Augustus John (1878- 1961) of his daughter

‘All copies have been sold, but another batch is being printed’

‘All copies have been sold, but another batch is being

UNDER £1500

Good art at a great price in regional sales

Stellar result for Cometographica

Astronomical works on comets and the planet Saturn achieve high sums in Königstein sale

Curie curiosity

Bid to a much higher than expected $23,000 (£17,970)

Golf mags sell a fair way above guides

Early magazine runs brought some unexpectedly high

Spike Milligan dedicates work to Harold Wilson

In a May 10 dispersal by Hansons (20% buyer’s premium)

An Egyptian expedition

A set of the monumental Description de l’Égypte… in

Churchill goes into sale battle

Inscribed by Winston Churchill “…For Mrs Johnston in

British and Irish book auctions

4 Books & MSS, Fonsie Mealy - Castlecomer +353

Previews: Up to £500

This c.1804 glass rummer commemorates the centenary

Previews: £501 - £2000

A three-day auction at Bellmans in West Sussex on June

Previews: £2001 - £5000

On July 3, London saleroom Dix Noonan Webb will offer

Previews: £5001 - £30,000

This cabinet by the influential Italian artist and

Previews : £30,000 plus

This handsome pair of revivalist ormolu-mounted marquetry

Long runner

With a longer run and back to being branded as an independent event, the venerable Art & Antiques Fair Olympia remains a stalwart for both the collector’s market and the decorative trade

WHAT’S NEW FOR 2019?

This year’s The Art & Antiques Fair Olympia gets

Inside the tent

Housed in a remarkable purpose-built marquee, Masterpiece London returns to the grounds of the Royal Hospital in Chelsea for its tenth anniversary

WHAT’S NEW FOR 2019?

The inaugural Sculpture Series, which features an assortment

A new addition

Announced only this spring, modern and contemporary Fair for Saatchi is a welcome newcomer to the summer schedule

Street talking

While fairs remain a vital part of the art market calendar, the rich series of gallery selling exhibitions in Mayfair and St James’s this summer offer more chances to view and buy – at a different pace.

Trading places

For close to three centuries buyers of art and antiques have been spoilt for choice in London. A city synonymous with archives, galleries, museums, conservators and curators, it continues to support long-standing streets of antiques dealers, centres and a plethora of regular fairs and markets. As this guide to the hotspots suggests, most of them are complementary rather than in competition, and all budgets are catered for.

Capital gains

As the battle for the ‘middle market’ heats up, the London auction scene today offers visitors a wider choice of items to buy and more places to bid for them. Roland Arkell reports

Away days

Britain still has many ‘antiques’ towns and streets – those picturesque corners of the island populated by shops, galleries and centres that together act as a magnet for antiques tourists. Two of the largest communities of dealers close to London are Petworth and Hungerford. Noelle McElhatton and Roland Arkell report

Chippendale sits comfortably at British trade showpiece

When Sir Robert Burdett (1716-97), 4th Baron Bramcote

Worcester in Paradise

A rare early Worcester plate, c.1752, painted in Chinese

5 Questions

James Butterwick is a dealer in Russian art of the

Bone on Boney at miniature show

An 1817 miniature of Napoleon by British painter Henry

Rediscovering ‘Good Design’

What Happened to Good Design, a summer selling exhibition

Eroticism explored in Marseille

Giorgio de Chirico’s Nudo dormiente, c.1930, is among

Heath on paper

This abstract oil on paper is among the works on paper

Glossary

If you are new to the art market you may find this

The rustic charm of art populaire

Strong response to collection of writer and broadcaster who fell under the folk art spell

Buying at Auction - a general guide

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

Artist’s Resale Right

Advertisements in Antiques Trade Gazette may mention

The show within a show

The annual three-day Kent County Show is a big favourite

Antiquities provide a new face for Dorking Halls

Jane Alexander of Dovehouse Fine Antiques Fairs is

‘Hidden gem’ marks 25 years

A testimony to its popularity, the small weekly fleamarket

Back on the farm

A three-day biannual vintage and collectors’ fair held

The Ashburton trail begins to grow

Six months ago a small town on the edge of Dartmoor

Caroline Penman: ‘Will anyone save Chelsea?’

MADAM – I am mortified to find myself at the cusp of

Looking for Autori originals

MADAM – Fernando Autori was a famous Italian opera