‘A good way of getting it out there’: quartet of dealers take auction route in early 2019

and then there were nine

The discovery of this teabowl and saucer by Salisbury

We need clarity on customs, say art shippers

UK art shippers are urging the government to speed

Christie’s wins ARR fight in France

Supreme Court says auction house can now charge buyer not seller for artist levy

More of ‘America’s first porcelain’ surfaces in UK

A previously unrecorded teabowl and saucer attributed

US celebration of English silver on New Year’s Day

Auctions on New Year’s Day are a tradition in regional

Bid Barometer

The Accident by Theodore Gerard (1829-95), signed and

Bishton Hall bidder catches rare Oysterdate

Testament to a vibrant market for vintage Tudor wristwatches

Precious metals

On Friday, January 4, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton

News In Brief

Former Thomas Watson Auctioneers director David Elstob

The world comes to Cockermouth

Three-day auction at Cumbrian saleroom demonstrates global reach of art and antiques

Three early pieces of pottery and glass

Serendipity had it that three early pieces of European

Dirk suits snappy Highlander

A fine example of a dirk, without which no Highland

From cartridge loader to corkscrew

One of the more unusual corkscrews to come onto what

Twentieth century design in the regions

While five-figure sums for top-end 20th century design

Bird oil panels pose a puzzle

Four works sold in Essex auction could be part of Marks’ Eaton Hall commission

Beer’s racing pigeons take flight

Portraits of prize-winning racing pigeons are the latest

Waterhouse name boosts oil sketch

This unfinished oil sketch of a tree (above) was kept

Saleroom selection: Three modestly valued works in regional sales

Saleroom selection: Three modestly valued works in

No language barrier to sales

German and Latin versions of ‘Nuremburg Chronicle’ impress in separate auctions

Book that forms a work of art

At the very end of the 15th century, in Venice in December

Blaeu with wind in its sails

Bound as two volumes in contemporary red morocco gilt

Library laws laid down

Dated April 5, 1768, the simple printed broadside shown

Box bears the magic name

£90,000 is an awful lot of money for an empty metal

Eloise rescued from the garbage

Painted as a birthday gift, a portrait of one of the

British and Irish book auctions

Jan 8* 4 28-lot Book & Map Section, Rogers Jones

Previews: Up to £500

Jean Coene, the so-called ‘Master of the Paris Entries’

Previews: £501 - £2000

A rising star of the post-war art market, John Minton

Previews: £2001 - £5000

Johan Peter Molin’s (1814-73) Knife Wrestlers, or Baltesspannarna

Previews: £5001 - £30,000

A 600-plus lot single-owner sale of items from a large

Fair offers a bevy of Mod Brits

Older 20th century works rub shoulders with contemporary at annual London event

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Kirchner finds his paradise

Expressionist work was created on island in the Baltic when freed from Berlin constraints

Zero heroes

Not least since the extensive retrospective shown in

Falling soldier price rises high

One of the most iconic photographic images of war came

Bidder shows flower power

Eight determined bidders were on hand when Karl &

Twinight porcelain on offer

Since 1994, the New York businessman Richard Baron

Imperial pieces impress in Munich

Two pieces with imperial connections took the top honours

Previews: Cologne – Van Ham

Since the early 1990s Wolfgang Thillmann, a German

Previews: Pennsylvania – Pook & Pook

This Chinese export porcelain punch bowl will feature

Previews: New York – Doyle

More than 100 lots of paintings, sculpture, drawings

Previews: Milan – Il Ponte

This rare 11th century Portolan chart on vellum below

New York – Swann Auction Galleries

Swann Auction Galleries’ January 29 sale of illustrated

Swallow dips in to open another salvage event

Organiser launches Malvern fair to run alongside existing venues

Glad as a Flatter to be selling glass

Glass specialists Liz and Mike Flatter will be first-time

Dorking fair doubles up

Jane Alexander of Dovehouse Fine Antiques Fairs reports

Court centre kick-off

In April 2017 we ran a story on the courthouse in the

New year, new resolutions…

Art market players reveal what is top of their to-do list in 2019. Noelle McElhatton reports

Fine art should learn from philatelics

MADAM – I write regarding charging for condition reports

Listen to Mr Spock to decide on ivory trade

MADAM – F Segolini makes some interesting and valid

Obituary – Arnold Pash

Arnold Pash (1928-2018), veteran silver dealer of A