Graceful in old age

Freya Simms steps into top LAPADA role

Former Olympia fair organiser and art world PR to head dealer association

BDO report hits out at Mossgreen management

The administrator BDO’s report into the collapse of

Sterling performance for ‘Dymock’ sticks

Estimated at £10,000-15,000, a pair of James II silver

Free IACF pitches to newcomers on camera

Antiques fair organiser IACF is offering a free pitch

Art market prepares for new EU data privacy rules

Auctioneers, dealers and fair organisers are preparing

Traders believe centre thefts may be linked

The theft of a piece of pottery from an antiques centre

Powerful bidding for Islamic Week stars

Multi-estimate sums proved the norm among the star

Pick of the Week Talismanic shirts lead to saleroom good fortune

Pick of the Week Talismanic shirts lead to saleroom

Bid barometer

From thesaleroom.com

Busby contract demands the beautiful game

Manchester United fans grumbling about the current

News In Brief

The largest-ever painting by Amedeo Modigliani (1884-

Feast from the east throws up tasty treats

Oriental lots across the UK give bidders plenty to chew on, writes Terence Ryle

Porcelain pride of place in Leyburn

Chinese porcelain resumed its traditional dominance

Buyer nets Kangxi vase

A 10in (25cm) tall Kangxi period (1654-1722) rouleau

Sumptuous silk at just £350

The world of Chinese art remains open to collectors

Here-to-sell strategy

Since the start of the Chinese boom at UK auctions

Plaques brighten snowy days

Delayed by snow for a week, the Spring Sale at Chorley’s

Serpents slither onto vases

An ideal marriage of skills, rather than a clash of

Early human resources

Below: one of the smallest but most eye-catching lots

Artist who invited a horse to tea

Works by the flamboyant Lord Berners come to auction from Faringdon House contents sale

World away from Lowry matchsticks

Early works painted before an artist has adopted their

Staithes Group sells along the coast

Well-situated on the North Yorkshire coast, Scarborough

UNDER £1500

Depicting a side canal in Venice, this signed 2ft 2in

Celestial work lights up Glos sale

First such pocket atlas published in England leads a look at highly diverse auction selection

Beautiful bindings in South Cerney

1. This volume containing Richard Hooker’s sixth and

Golf first tees off in the US

Published in 1895, Wright & Dixon’s Guide to American

Album is crowning glory

Printed for circulation only among members of the imperial

Complete 17th century work is a great rarity of Judaica

Bound in recent times as six volumes in elaborately

Previews: Up to £500

The so-called ‘Vitascope ship clock’ originated from

Previews: £501 - £2000

In 1945, the textile company Ascher commissioned a

Previews: £2001 - £5000

This Victorian gold necklace, fashioned as a snake

Previews: £5001 - £30,000

Among the highlights of Plymouth Auction Rooms’ sale

Previews: £30,000 plus

Several decades ago, when China was shut to the Western

Petworth fair bigger than ever

Expanded purpose-built marquee increases exhibitor line-up even more

UNDER £500

At Petworth, S&J Abbott Ceramics Plus is selling

Primitive influence on modern boosts folk art

Recent exhibitions at London institutions such as the

UNDER £1000

This c.1880 English primitive folk art doll is made

Artists put together a fragmented history

An exhibition on two artists active during the Chilean

5 Questions

Jeremy Green of The Canon Gallery next stands at The

Kyffin centenary shows are coming thick and fast

The paintings of Welsh landscape artist Kyffin Williams

UK first for Hayter artworks

Crane Kalman’s exhibition of paintings by the Modern

TEFAF leaps into second spring

New York City hosts another edition as the fair format becomes established in the US

French auctioneers’ showcase

The last weekend of the month, May 25-27, is given

Monaco

Survivals of ancient classical sculpture carved from

New York

A classic, rare 1938 poster for the London Underground

Maryland

Weschlers’ mixed-owner Capital Collections sale in

British and Irish book auctions

May 1* 4 18-lot Book/Ephemera Section: Maritime Sale

Artist’s Resale Right

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Guide to buying at auction

You can refer to the comprehensive Antiques Trade Gazette

Retro fills the collecting frame

New book focuses on cameras of types on offer at next Photographica fair coming up

Fair beckons in Beccles

The busy market town of Beccles on the River Waveney

First Swallow of spring

The first of Arthur Swallow Fairs’ Decorative Home

It’s flip-flip-hooray…

Shown here at Antiques on High in Oxford is Caroline

Sir William tributes at Fawley Hill

Lady McAlpine says she is now more determined than

Art Deco panthers lead to Eltham masterpiece

Allan Bellamy of Gazelles in Lyndhurst has been a dealer

UK ivory trade ban will harm market world leader status

MADAM – We are all devastated at what is being proposed

Ivory: sewing plea

MADAM – I am sending you a photo of some small sewing

Obituary – Sir William McAlpine

The Hon Sir William McAlpine, avid collector and conservationist