Ex-Nicholson’s pair launch with £10 vendor fee

Art Nouveau jewellery shines across the globe

The medium of jewellery provided perhaps the greatest

More reopenings in UK and Ireland as lockdown eases

The easing of lockdown rules across the UK and Ireland

Nagel enters insolvency process

Nagel in Stuttgart, which has been trading since 1922

Online marketplace seeks The Bruno Effect

The former boss of Online Gal ler ies and 1stdibs International

‘Masterpiece of the armourer’s art’ tops Classic Week in NY

The top lot of the latest Christie’s Classic Week was

‘Yongzheng’ lotus mouth vase passes £1m at Skinner

The sale of Asian Works of Art held online by Skinner

Becker's farmhands shine in Mid-Summer

This 8 x 10in (21 x 25cm) oil on canvas board sketch

Bid Barometer

Online buying: realised prices at auctions on thesaleroom.com

A new benchmark for Vietnamese ceramics

Christie’s claimed a new record for Vietnamese ceramics

Precious metals

On Friday, June 26, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton

News In Brief

Five Parisian antiquities specialists have been arrested

The new century

Jewellery provided one of the great expressions of the Art Nouveau style. Here Roland Arkell reports on four exceptional items made in four different countries in the early years of the 20th century

Sarah Bernhardt: jewels from the first global celebrity, quand même

Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923), right – the first actor

Lenfant roars

Georges Lenfant is one of the many unsung titans of

Bringing colour to the Depression

The sale at Dorotheum (28/25/22% buyer’s premium) in

Remembering William

This George III mourning ring is engraved W’m Tipping

Going Dutch on 232 guilders

Not only does this Dutch 18ct gold and white carnelian

Fringe benefits for Bromley diamonds

Among the many successful online-only jewellery auctions

An upbeat market during lockdown

The hunger among buyers to acquire good quality jewellery

The jewels of the 12th Dynasty

Archaeological discoveries were a continuous source

The enduring appeal of the 19th century revivalism

The Etruscan revival, that followed in the wake of

Intaglios cutting a deeper impression

Interest in glyphic art, that reached its collecting

Studio ceramics as a way of life

Collector’s philosophy for his compulsive pottery buying chimed with Buddhist beliefs

Peach of a scroll bears fruit in an Asian selection

A Qing dynasty (1644-1911) embroidered silk hanging

Pair of leaf paintings come from former Bluetts director

These two 21in (52cm) fan leaf paintings right, one

Partridge adds weight in lockdown

‘Freshness and sensible estimates’ contribute to record 5016 registrants for Macclesfield sale

Paoletti’s postcards from Venice shine in Maidenhead

A trio of oils by Venetian artist Antonio Ermolao Paoletti

Three contrasting ways to be big in Japan

Two very different Japanese works on paper performed

Winter auction goes supersize

South Cerney sale of nearly 900 lots mirrors the huge offerings held in Germany

British and Irish book auctions

Jun 30 4 Book Sale, mostly the Collection of a Single

Early French books of hours on top as Paris reopens

£1 = €1.10

Nobel Prize and bindings combine to impress

Christie’s (25/20/13.5% buyer’s premium) May 27 sale

Previews

Our weekly selection from salerooms

At Close Quarters after lockdown

Mayfair Italian art specialist reopens with help from ‘the fictional collector’

5 Questions

Rebecca Eames runs Eames Fine Art, which currently

The web shop window

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

Petworth returns to business

Kevis House Gallery in Petworth hailed the return to

Top US trade show online

A c.1715 walnut fauteuil covered with 18th century

Putting Berlin on the Islamic globe

The sky was (almost) the limit at the June 4 sale at

Tiffany’s inspired Cypriote

It was a visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art sometime

Webb’s ‘incomplete’ view of Cologne

For 300 years, from the 1520s to the 1820s, the great

Coecke van Aelst sends right note to Old Masters market

Vienna saleroom Dorotheum (28/25/22/18% buyer’s premium)

Le Gray’s ancient and modern Paris

The July 9 sale of Selected Works at Grisebach in Berlin

Nusser’s legacy

In April this year, the founder of the auction house

Munch in Moonlight

Edvard Munch returned to the subject Woman in Moonlight

Life on the ocean waves

A memento of the last great age of transatlantic ocean

Dietrich’s life in flowers

It is thought that the German artist Adelheid Dietrich

Buying at Auction - a general guide

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

Artist’s Resale Right

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Are ‘consignments’ properly protected under US law?

A lawyer writes:Risk of business insolvencies highlights grey area in Uniform Commercial Code

Obituary – Gerardus A Widdershoven (1951-2020), founder of Maison Gerard

Born in the Netherlands in 1951, ‘Gerard’ arrived in

Unfair I don’t qualify for covid grant as my premises are too large

MADAM – I run a small conservation and restoration

Letters

We enjoy reading letters sent to us by our readers

Portobello: Grants are to help dealers pay their rent

MADAM – Following on from ATG news articles (issues