Anti-money laundering rules: the updates you need to know about

Standard pint measure stands out at £30,000

Since the days of Magna Carta, it was thought the best

Bid Barometer

Online buying: realised prices at auctions on thesaleroom.com

Precious metals

On Friday, March 3, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton

Receipt now reveals Nelson’s specs appeal

Nelson’s life and work has been exhaustively researched

News in Brief

A bowl that broke the world record for Chinese art

Dealers line up discoveries for TEFAF

Discoveries by dealers will be among the highlights

Import tax rise plan ‘devastating’ says French trade

The French art market is to fight “devastating” proposals

Turner’s castle emerges in Cambridge saleroom

An early watercolour of Chepstow Castle by JMW Turner

‘Nonsensical’ road restrictions disrupt trade and access at Camden Passage

Trade at London’s Camden Passage antiques market is

Restitutions prominent at latest sales

The overall total raised at the latest round of Modern

Poole by ‘the quiet virtuoso’

The Weekly Antiques Sale at Gorringe’s on February

The 5MLD regulations that can affect dealers and auctioneers

The anti-money laundering rules, applying the Fifth

No longer the last days of the Raj

A once neglected aspect of the silver market received a showpiece sale in February. Roland Arkell reports on the Stewart collection of Anglo-Indian silver from the Raj period.

‘I propose three feet formed as to serve as handles’

Dr Christopher Dresser’s conical sugar bowl with three

The exotic appeal of coconuts and porcelain

Cups with coconut bowls mounted in silver or silver-gilt

Ashbee’s decanter revisited by Guild

The quasi-medieval silver and glass ‘claret bottle’

Cigars at the officer’s table

Military history and regimental glamour combine in

The sweet scent of victory – Nelson remembered in silver

A private collection of naval and military vinaigrettes

Female silversmith

The Assay Office in Norwich closed in 1702, so secular

Reward for ‘reading the Riot Act’

Cheffins’ sale of Jewellery, Silver & Watches

Worth a bit more than fifty quid

Early example note from Sir Christopher Wren issue takes group lot to high four figure price

Windowsill of opportunity

Spotted sitting among modern pottery on the windowsill

Found to be 14th century

Estimated at a mere £20-40, this Islamic brass bowl

Furniture heads overseas from Northumberland

Paintings dominated the sale of contents of Meldon

Tankard has the look of the Irish

Size, quality and sheer Irishness made the tankard

DNA discovery and damnation

Extraordinary letter by Nobel Prize-winning biophysicist both commends and condemns a colleague

School songbook signed by Winston for Jock on tune

Available from the school’s own bookshop from 1937

Beautiful Kelmscott work... shame about the library stamp

Featured in an Oxford sale of February 9 was a copy

British and Irish book auctions

Newton suits the market mood

Interest shown in two works sold recently suggest 2023 could be a good year for the London-born artist

Room bidders back in the Edinburgh mix

Thomson Roddick’s auctioneer and head of valuations

Create the right conditions to sell

Showing the value of keeping a lid on estimates, a

Previews

* BID LIVE AT thesaleroom.com

Event run by dealers for dealers

Organisers of Connect fair also take part as exhibitors among a ‘young and lively’ group from across the UK

First taste of Worcester since 2001

Albert Amor’s latest catalogue opens with a mustard

The web shop window

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers

5 Questions

Saul Greenstein started trading in 2001 and has ben

Fresh faces at collective

Two new dealerships have joined The Blanchard Collective

‘Greatest of our time’

This watercolour above of Villefranche-sur-Mer Côte

Mitchell tracks down Alpine views

This painting of Mont Blanc as seen from the Lago Chérouit

Dealers and auctioneers ready for action

Exhibitions and sales lined up for the 14th edition of the annual celebration of Asian art in New York

Reach for the sky with a celestial single-owner collection

Headlining the AWNY programme at Sotheby’s is the 23-lot

Array of traditional robes on offer

Three online sales make up the AWNY programme presented

Five plus three equals eight auctions both live and online

Christie’s celebrates AWNY with eight auctions: five

JJ Lally & Co lots span 5000 years of Chinese history

Bonhams will offer two single-owner collections as

The plum garden that inspired van Gogh

For AWNY, Heritage Auctions will offer a collection

Gallery shows unite Big Apple residents and visitors

Around 26 specialist dealers are taking part in the

Japanese art at the end of the Edo period

Sebastian Izzard LLC celebrates 25 years with an exhibition

Hokusai goes with the flow

One of the main highlights in The Art of Japan’s AWNY

Kuniyoshi masters woodblock prints

As its AWNY offering, Egenolf Gallery presents Prints

Catching Hindu and Muslim court traditions

For its 13th annual AWNY exhibition, dealership Oliver

Channel enlightening energies

During AWNY, New York dealer Kapoor Galleries presents

And so to bedcover

Among the stand-out textiles in Recent Acquisitions

The original and authoritative sales listing

This is a calendar of art, antiques and general auctions

Artist’s Resale Right

Advertisements in Antiques Trade Gazette may mention

All Wight now for a buying trip

Spotlight on some of the antiques and art trade attractions available to increasingly high-spending visitors

Worth popping in to see grandma

Revived Woking event proves a hit with dealers who say the organisation is still a strength

British & Irish Trade Associations

Trade associations carry out a variety of activities

Obituaries

What makes a good antiques dealer?

Broken and stripped antiques are the result of the flawed Ivory Act

When the 2018 Ivory Act was being debated key campaigners

Adventurer or artist maybe

I have recently acquired this portrait miniature measuring