A giant toast to the Londongrad sales

The mouse’s whiskers

Rare 1920s Thompson dining suite displaying early features – and multiple rodents – shines at Doncaster sale

Stanhope watercolour tops NEC fair

Among the works selling at the recent Art & Antiques

Bruun Rasmussen pulls flask over uncertain dating

Danish auctioneer Bruun Rasmussen has withdrawn a Chinese

Brigadier’s furniture makes nice mice price

These Mouseman ‘Monk’s’ chairs, commissioned c.1926-27

Bid Barometer

Online buying: realised prices at auctions on thesaleroom.com

Super Storr candelabra

A pair of William IV candelabra from the Pembroke service

Precious metals

On Friday, November 30, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton

News In Brief

Sotheby’s is the latest auction house to pull the sale

Chairs clear up in auction action

Naval set capable of being folded away for battle stations is an exceptional survivor

Home turf before theatre of dreams

A rare photographic postcard sold via thesaleroom.com

Barlow makes roos headlines

Among the most desirable of all Royal Doulton Lambeth

Celtic medal celebration

A Glasgow bidder in the room secured a Scottish Cup

Bowie and his Mod Brit stardust

Latest auction series indicates effect of 2016 landmark sale on prices today

War – what it is good for

Few events shaped British art more in the 20th century

London and the world in focus

Large-scale 18th century map of the capital joins a wider global outlook at auction

Master Race makes impact

Raising around $11m including premiums, a November

The economies of sale

The three volumes noted here are English language highlights

British and Irish book auctions

Dec 3-4* 126-lot Book & Map Section, 1818 Auctioneers

Previews: Up to £500

This Chinese silk embroidered gown, set to the centre

Previews : £501 - £2000

The 1957 launch of Sputnik, the world’s first artificial

Previews : £2001 - £5000

A silver medal awarded for a shipwreck rescue is among

Previews : £5001 - £30,000

Clothing with royal provenance will form part of Kerry

Previews: £30,000 plus

Believed to be unique, this grimacing stoneware dog

Coming together

Despite the disparity in numbers, the market for Chinese and Japanese works of art are increasingly aligned, reports Roland Arkell

Sales in Ireland

The influx of Asian art buyers that accompanies the

Another brick in the Great Wall – £1700

Included in the sale at Lawrences (22% buyer’s premium)

If it’s good enough for a Rockefeller…

Among the most coveted of all the standard Chinese

Potential stars of Paris

December is one of two key periods in the French calendar

Aguttes

One of several sales devoted to Asian Art taking place

Christie’s

Christie’s Asian Art sale in Paris on December 12 will

Christophe Joron-Derem

A mixed-discipline sale held at Drouot by Christophe

Sotheby’s

Qi Baishi (1864-1957) is one of the best-known Chinese

Jonquet

This 8in (20cm) high long-necked Yongzheng period porcelain

Tajan

This 3½in (8.5cm) high jade vase of yellow tone with

Hoping to be big in Japan again

For the first time in a decade, Sotheby’s Asian Art

Bidding down to the wire

Pictured right is an unusual dish from the workshop

Netsuke: the de Waal collection

A welcome addition to the November 21 Asian Works of

Testing the adage that ‘sex sells’

Nudity and sensuality are themes running through London gallery’s look at eroticism

Arundel brings back ‘brown’

A new destination for antiques shopping in Arundel

5 Questions

Anna Wakerley of Oriel Fine Art specialises in pre-

Vibrant ceramics dance in

Jean Lurçat’s Sun Dancer, c.1955, is from a range of

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Artist’s Resale Right

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Be festive in France for presents

Cross-Channel focus on a couple of weekly events in Paris and another in Bordeaux

Vintage slice of east London

Cary Whitley has been running her biannual Love Vintage

Three antiques fairs in fine settings

1 Beverley and Graham Innes, as Century Fairs, run

This idea needs a condition check

MADAM – Once again we have an auctioneer defending

Home ‘not fit for Bony’

MADAM – The first edition 1815 map of St Helena shown

Viewers voice opinions

MADAM – We have been watching Make me a Dealer since

Recognise this medal?

MADAM – Here is a medal whose origin I can’t figure

Label doesn’t fit on Staffs figures

Some time ago Alan Sturrock made the same plea in the

’We do love you’

MADAM – Michael Roberts of PFK should not concern himself