Going coal crazy for a saleroom expansion

‘Ten police’ in ‘draconian’ ivory seizure

A VICTORIAN ivory barometer was taken by a team of

Cultural bill creates confusion for dealers

THE Antiquities Dealers’ Association has asked the

Rediscovered: Lions that sat back to back at the tomb of Charles V

Rediscovered: Lions that sat back to back at the tomb

Forum to trial all-inclusive auction pricing

FORUM Auctions is to trial allinclusive estimates and

Further investigation

The ASA, which issued guidance on the inclusion of

Trade says business rates require wholesale reform

DEALERS have warned that “tinkering around the edges”

Sleeping bugle awakens at £140,000

ESTIMATED at £50-100, this Maori flute sold for £140

Top story: UK customs figures reflect global art market drop-off

Top story: UK customs figures reflect global art market

Pick of the Week: East meets West for a £55,000 fish sausage

Pick of the Week: East meets West for a £55,000 fish

Bid Barometer

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Photo album returns to ‘Downton’

AN album of photographs of Highclere Castle in Hampshire

News In Brief

WORKS from the Galleria Borghese in Rome will feature

Then & Now

News as reported from the ATG Archive

A BRAND GOING PLACES

But ‘world’s greatest art fair’ prepares to go Dutch once more

Pick of the fair

ATG chooses a diverse selection of must-see pieces for the Maastricht connoisseur and buyer

TRIBAL ART

DEALER: ENTWHISTLE, LONDON AND PARIS

OLD MASTERS

DEALER: G SARTI, PARIS

SCULPTURE & WORKS OF ART

MULLANY, LONDON

JEWELLERY

DIDIER, LONDON

ANTIQUITIES

CHARLES EDE, LONDON

BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS

SHAPERO RARE BOOKS, LONDON

SILVER

HELGA MATZKE KUNSTHANDEL, GRÜNWALD

ARMS & ARMOUR

PETER FINER, LONDON

SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

GALERIE DELANDE, PARIS

JEWELLERY

WARTSKI, LONDON

CHINESE WORKS OF ART

SYDNEY L MOSS, LONDON

PAINTINGS

THE MAAS GALLERY, LONDON

MANUSCRIPTS

LES ENLUMINURES, CHICAGO

CERAMICS

RÖBBIG, MUNICH

SCULPTURE & WORKS OF ART

COLNAGHI, LONDON

Dutch navigators on a fair course

The roots of TEFAF Maastricht remain strong, with quality works of art still key to its success

Lawrence Steigrad Fine Arts, New York

Among the pictures we are taking to TEFAF are approximately

Aronson Antiquairs, Amsterdam

This year we’re offering a selection of objects including

Kunsthandel Bies, Eindhoven

A fine collection of Dutch 19th and early 20th century

Meet the Maastricht movers and shakers

It’s the dealers who are in the frontline – fresh faced or regulars

The regular

The Artur Ramon Art from Barcelona has exhibited at

The Showcase dealers

The Showcase section at TEFAF Maastricht allows five

The stalwarts

Galerie Downtown is the Paris left-bank gallery of

Johnny Van Haeften

The Old Master specialist has been going to Maastricht

The returning dealer

One stand returning to TEFAF Maastricht after a break

Freshness in a finite world

In its 30th year, how can TEFAF remain relevant in

Access all objects VISIT MAASTRICHT 2017

Exhibitors attend TEFAF Maastricht with the primary purpose of selling, but for visitors the experience can be more multi-faceted. As Frances Allitt and Laura Chesters discover, those visitors come in all guises and from many walks of art market life

Top tips: out and about in Maastricht

Eat, sleep, fair, repeat. If that’s the schedule (and

The 175 pairs of eyes on Maastricht

As attribution issues continue to beset the art market, TEFAF’s vetters are placed under the spotlight as much as the objects they assess. Roland Arkell speaks to current chairman of vetting, Henk van Os

Worldly wise buys at auction

Japan and China impress but India, Fiji, Italy, The Netherlands and Germany also chip in

Chinese sleeper

Maintaining China’s position as the leading source

Laxative eases through

FOR two centuries Daffy’s Elixir was one of the best-selling

Saleroom stirs up hornet’s best

ARRIVING in ‘mint-plus’ condition from a shop clearance

Bavarian foxes are dressed to impress

THE pair of porcelain candlesticks modelled as foxes

Irish couple stand out in Kent

Dillon painting of Inishmaan quay is surprise find among artist’s studio collection

Reynolds? It’s not that simple

IN c.1785, Joshua Reynolds painted a portrait of his

Anglo-Indian art bears auction fruit

THIS 19th century Anglo-Indian School study of breadfruit

In a couple, for better or verse

Rimbaud lots include a poem he gave to his lover Verlaine a year before their last quarrel

Fantasy books throne up at auction

A GROUP of four first UK editions of the books by George

Saleroom charts the seas and rocks

A SCARCE pilot book of c.1793, John Leard’s …Pilot

Pointing to Bacon as Shakespeare

CRYPTOMENYTICES et Cryptographiae, a 1624 book on codes

The rule of thumb

It contains five flip, or as they are sometines called

German view of Japanese world

THE German naturalist, physician and traveller, Engelbert

Up to £500

Our weekly selection from salerooms and dealerships

£501 - £2000

This ornate late 19th century enamel and pearl pendant

£2001 - £5000

This porcelain plate from the vast Raphael Service

£5001 - £30,000

Bought for £10 at a car boot sale, this scarce 1930s

£30,000 plus

This c.1975 stainless steel Rolex Oyster Perpetual

Made by Ramsden: the silver lining

OMAR Ramsden is one of the great names when it comes

Flea organisers leap into action by doubling up

B2B and Bentleys launch Eastbourne event

Take trike trip to Vauxhall

IF you fancy nipping around London on a vintage Dutch

Feel the joy of two Jay events

THE long-established Jay Fairs, run by Joy O’Meara

Holt pitches it at higher level

FOR some time, dealers Marcus and Franca Potts have

Hospice holds larger fair day

THE St Peter & St James Hospice in Haywards Heath

Loving it at the racecourse

DONNY Martin of Love Fairs has been in touch to say

Swann animal magic drives perpetual auction motion

“THE more things change, the more they stay the same

SARAH Duncan

SARAH Duncan is the new head of jewellery at west London

MELLORS & Kirk

MELLORS & Kirk has appointed Richard Harrison as

Another of your letters to MPs on the proposed ivory trade ban

Another of your letters to MPs on the proposed ivory

The big questions over authentication

The role and legal status of art authentication committees

Need to scratch that Titch

MADAM – I came at your story headlined Art Historians;

I’m beginning to feel like an endangered species myself

MADAM – I am increasingly concerned with the well-intentioned

ANDREE White

ANDREE White, who died in December aged 96, owned and