Bid Barometer - issue 2291

Dealer survey: customer focus tops ivory and Brexit as issues

Dealer survey: customer focus tops ivory and Brexit

Turkey appeals against stargazer sale

Last week’s spectacular $14.5m sale of an ancient ‘stargazer’

Kiliya type idols

Anatolian marble idols from the Chalcolithic period

Nazi-looted picture withdrawn from sale

Vienna saleroom im Kinsky has hit out at the “biased

Frank Herrmann and Roy Davids: titans of the book trade

The antiquarian book trade has lost two well-known

Pick of the Week: Centrepiece races to Rijksmuseum

This 176oz Victorian presentation silver centrepiece

Boston museum settles Nazi dispute

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has settled a long-running

News In Brief

Auction house Greenslade Taylor Hunt of Taunton is

United we stand or going it alone: whither the trade after Brexit?

Dealers tell ATG what it will take for the trade to handle market challenges and seize the digital initiative

Our panellists’ trade body participation

■ Butchoff Antiques is a member of BADA, the Kensington

Be part of the antiques industry debate

■ Can dealers be their own masters when it comes to

Studio ceramics in starring role

Likes of Rie and Coper keep interest high for a market that began to take off four years ago

Cranes fly high at Edinburgh sale

Symbols of good fortune and longevity in both China

Salmon reeled in at Mitchells

Catch of the day at Cockermouth auctioneers Mitchells’

Nine phone lines try to book tables

Latest in a number of outstanding pieces of English

Royal rarity lifts Doulton figure price

Not so much in demand as they once were, Royal Doulton

Travels into the art ‘twilight zone’

Latest Crewkerne sale is solid but auctioneer feels that things will start to tighten up soon

Further Fauvist from Northampton

A painting of St Tropez by the Fauvist painter Charles

Macke works emerge

A collection of early 20th century German works on

Alphabet images spell sale interest

A scarce complete portfolio of 26 prints from Erté’s

Town of Beverley thrills

A view by Yorkshire artist Fred Elwell (1870-1958)

Hemingway under the hammer

Notable selection from American author leads third part of extensive collection at auction

Fearful and loathsome jacket

“We were somewhere around Barstow when the drugs began

Dive in to bid for pioneering works

Sold for £6000 in a Forum Auctions (25/20/12% buyer’s

Scarfe savages all before him

More than 130 original artworks by the artist, sometimes

Not just a run of the Will result

Reversing the usual pattern where it is an author’s

Historian has a swing at ‘world’s first golf club’

Best round scores in the most recent PBA Galleries

Literary path begins for Mr Clemens

Compiled by J Wells Kelly and published in San Francisco

Previews: Up to £500

This Royal Worcester tinted bisque figure of Captain

Previews: £501 - £2000

A vast collection of bears assembled over 30 years

Previews: £2001 - £5000

Contemporary ceramics specialists Maak will include

Previews: £5001 - £30,000

This Elizabeth I communion cup, London 1568, has been

Previews: £30,000 plus

Over £1.4m worth of art and antiques from Lord Weidenfeld’s

Keeping the special relationship

Transatlantic duo launch London gallery in a shining example of UK and US harmony

Fifty-stone ‘calf’ hoofs it along to Young’s gallery

The time has come for the second of Robert Young Antiques’

Shop talk

St. Reatham Antiques 392 Streatham High Rd, London

5 Questions

Daniel Levy opened his gallery, Daniel Raphael, in

Dealer hopes for growing interest

English and Continental Antiques, the Suffolk dealership

Get wise to Lear artworks

Before the poet Edward Lear sent the owl and the pussycat

Copenhagen

A relatively unfamiliar name in Nordic works is under

Madrid

Francis Picabia (1879-1953) famously declared that

New York

One of 170 complete copies of the privately printed

Paris

Classic antiques from furniture and works of art to

Munich

The Portrait of a Man, Holding a Carnation, a 16 x

Cologne

On May 19, not for the first time, Van Ham in Cologne

New York

The largest group of photographs from Berenice Abbott

Cologne

Gustave Vichy was probably the most accomplished manufacturer

Boxing clever

“Wait a minute. You’re putting my gloves in jail? This

BRITISH AND IRISH BOOK AUCTIONS

May 9 Travel, Maps & Natural History, Sotheby’s

Game on for Horti fair dealer

Specialist and author brings his Chinese counters to the May London event from Adams

Dolls show moves house for spring selection

Antique dolls supremo Judy Bebber has been organising

Staying serene in modern Stamford

The calm and grassy plain by the River Welland in the

Fair shows great in tent

Dealer Julie Brisbane’s triannual Antiques in Tents

New angle as event venue changes

The biannual National Vintage Fishing Tackle Fair at

Deco down in the south

Described as a building full of clues and symbolism

Take care when you talk about Uranus

MADAM – In last week’s Books, Maps & Prints supplement

Such a timely trunk call

MADAM – Rejoice, rejoice. Another elephant has been

Asian expedition

Fancy a free valuation? Asian art specialist Jonathan

Then & now

News as reported from the ATG Archive

Best make it a flamboyant bid

When the hammer comes down on your bid, that means