UK buyer wins as €1.8m Meynier resurfaces

Title concerns as Ferreira map collection sells

Chiswick confident of due diligence as portolan chart sets house record

Gandolfi rediscovery sets house record in Leominster

An oil on copper painting depicting Saint Joseph by

Diversity push launched as BBC’s Bargain Hunt is given another two years

Diversity push launched as BBC’s Bargain Hunt is given

DEFRA spokesman says expect response to ivory consultation ‘shortly’

DEFRA spokesman says expect response to ivory consultation

Pick of the Week: Here comes the sundial at Summers Place

Henry Wynne (fl.1654-1709), master of the Clockmaker’s

Bid barometer – issue 2336

From thesaleroom.com

Feel the force of Darth Vader demand

When the first wave of Kenner Star Wars action figures

New In Brief

The collection of the late Saudi billionaire Walid

All hail the studio pottery market

Fresh names ensure interest at price levels more accessible than big bucks for Rie and Coper

Clear demand for black and white

Selling just short of the auction record, this 10in

Plainer styles attract their own faithful following

The 96-lot section of studio pottery offered at Woolley

Lamp at £5000? That’s the spirit

One says Scottish rather than Scotch except when one

Poor passenger pigeon finds a new nest

With species extermination very much in the news following

Caddy makes a return

Made by Johannes van de Toorn, the founder of the prolific

Selwood springs up

It was signed William Selwood at ye Marmaid in Louhbury

Worked up into saleroom success

Three works on paper sold in Salisbury indicate renewed interest in this traditional market

Bidders board the Farnham omnibus

A painting of Farnham High Street from 1794 by a littleknown

Why a sea view costs extra

Marines and seascapes were a strong feature of Woolley

Saleroom selection:

Three more modestly valued works drawing attention at Woolley & Wallis

Jeffrey Archer’s fantasy world

Cartoon collection amassed by scandal-hit politician goes under the hammer in London

Fancy lot turns out nice again

At some point in its life, an early photographically

Einstein and Beethoven tune up

Successful lots in a Bonhams New York (25/20/12% buyer’s

Previews: Up to £500

This Chinese gilt bronze Buddha seated on a double

Previews: £501 - £2000

To coincide with Islamic week this month, London saleroom

Previews: £2001 - £5000

It is believed only two known examples of this large

Previews: £5001 - £30,000

A cache of early LS Lowry (1887-1976) drawings discovered

Previews: £30,000 plus

A large collection of Indian and Himalayan sculpture

BADA fair: play the long game

Days of visitors rushing in and buying everything give way to more considered approach

British artist Alan Davie is back in the spotlight

During the later decades of the 20th century, post-war

Panter & Hall

Panter & Hall holds an exhibition of the works

5 Questions

Guy Peppiatt specialises in 18th and 19th century British

Beryl Cook cat in Cotswolds

The first Cotswolds Decorative, Antiques & Art

The late, late show at TEFAF

Good things come to those who wait. That is exactly

Paris

Synonymous with luxury and style, the Normandie epitomised

Madrid

Domenico Tintoretto (1560-1635), trained in Venice

Texas

Only a few examples of the rare four-part British quad

New York

The English-born political theorist Thomas Paine lived

Hoping outsiders are in demand

A collection of Outsider art produced in a former psychiatric

BRITISH AND IRISH BOOK AUCTIONS

Apr 4*@ 48 lots Books & Ephemera, Anderson &

Fair group with firm foundation

IACF operations director describes the value of experience in the organising world

Mount your own Everest ascent

In answer to the question “why do you want to climb

Bengal and Bauer both on sale at the textiles fair

The panel of kantha stitching from West Bengal shown

Five centuries of events

The first civic event in the St Andrews Hall in Norwich

Grandma’s Attic has plenty in store

Dealer Chris Brown is a busy man. A specialist in Poole

3B or not 3B (or possibly 4B), that is the question

MADAM – I sympathise with your correspondent Phil Higginbotham

Our sales spike during events

MADAM – Re your report on dealer findings in Art Basel’s

Soapbox

The big question…