Latest News Articles by Terence Ryle
Walnut whips up tasty result
19 February 2018“The selling price was really encouraging,” said Chichester auctioneer Peter Parker after an 18th century walnut chest made £5800, “but it just emphasises how polarised the market is between the top end and the rest.”
Window seat looks good at Cumbrian auction
19 February 2018Another classic piece of English furniture to go well above expectations was a Regency mahogany window seat in the style of George Bullock offered by the Cumbrian firm 1818 Auctioneers (17/12% buyer’s premium).
Going Dutch in Hampshire
19 February 2018As with the overall market, Dutch furniture is much less popular than it once was and the 18th century walnut, floral marquetry and ivory-inlaid bombé bureau cabinet, below, had a couple of condition problems for bidders at Andrew Smith (19% buyer’s premium).
Zsolnay Pecs leaves Battle bidders hungry for more
19 February 2018The great Hungarian love affair with Zsolnay Pec ceramics goes on, most recently witnessed in the East Sussex rooms of Burstow & Hewett (15% buyer’s premium) when 27 lots were offered.
Laplander top of the world in Lincoln sale
19 February 2018Three 19th century porcelain figures from a Peoples of Russia series consigned to Lincoln auction house Golden Young & Mawer (20% buyer’s premium) by a local vendor attracted interest from the US to Russia.
Persian tiles catch the eyes
19 February 2018Outsold, predictably enough, by an 18th-19th century Chinese vase, two late 19th century Persian moulded pottery tiles were the eye-catchers among a buoyant Asian works of art section at Billingshurst auction house Bellmans (22% buyer’s premium).
Fangtastic price as Dracula poster takes Irish record
19 February 2018One of the most sought-after of all film posters, this British quad for the 1958 Rank/Hammer movie Dracula, sent a thrill through the Dublin rooms of Whyte’s (20.3% buyer’s premium) where it topped the bill.
Spoons are a key Ashbee work
12 February 2018Marked CRA and dated 1895, a set of three silver spoons offered at auction represent a key point in the career of one of the giants of the Arts & Crafts movement, Charles Robert Ashbee (1863-1942).
Sixties desk shows form and substance
12 February 2018Designed by Bodil Kjaer, this 1960s oak, palisander and steel ‘executive desk’ offered at Chiswick Auctions (23% buyer’s premium) is a classic example of the huge influence of Scandinavian architects on Western post-war design.
Bidders sit up and take notice of armchairs
12 February 2018Upholstered Victorian armchairs not being the most in-demand of auction lots at present, the £100-150 estimate of a pair offered at Greenslade Taylor Hunt (19.5% buyer’s premium) did not seem overly pessimistic.
Silver packs a punch in Diss
12 February 2018A good weight and a good name helped this London 1890 embossed silver punch bowl to double the lower estimate at TW Gaze (18% buyer’s premium).
Van delivers on sale day
12 February 2018More down to earth than the Bentley Speed Sixes and MG TDs of the classic car world, this 1961 GPO van nevertheless was a major draw at Biddle & Webb (20% buyer’s premium) in Birmingham.
Warehouse collection fresh to market casts a spell on bidders
12 February 2018Billed as a collection, possibly better described as a hoard, the contents of boxes stored in warehouse units were “the magic ingredients for auction goers” according to Dreweatts’ deputy chairman James Nicholson.
Coverage from range of regional salerooms
05 February 2018And still the lofts and attics of UK homes play their part in the lucrative China trade… A c.1800 Imperial yellow cushion cover was one example offered at Trevanion & Dean (19% buyer’s premium) in Whitchurch.
Week of Somerset sales shows middle market strength
05 February 2018More glamorous sales will take place this year, but a week of four quality auctions at Lawrences (22% buyer’s premium) of Crewkerne provided some solid reassurance about the state of the middle market.
Sixties concert poster is cream of the crop
05 February 2018Evidence of the shrewd taste of student entertainments officers at Warwick University back in the Sixties came at Batemans’ (20% buyer’s premium) sale at Stamford in the form of two concert posters.
Chinese bowls serve up six figures each
05 February 2018Promoted as including the contents from a Derbyshire country home, the three-day pre-Christmas sale at Hansons (17.5% buyer’s premium) was more notable for two unusual collections and pieces which came in after a valuation day.
First sales of 2018 make a happy new year
22 January 2018Two of the first sales of 2018 suggest that toasts to the future can be drunk from half-full, rather than half-empty, Georgian rummers.
Snuff boxes sum up unusual appeal
22 January 2018Four unusual collections caught the eye, if not always the cash, at Woolley & Wallis (25% buyer's premium).
New Year’s Day lots in tune at Lincoln sale
22 January 2018“Buyers want to get back in action after the Christmas holiday,” said Darryl Kirk, saleroom manager at Unique Auctions (17.5% buyer’s premium), after 95% of the 1300 lots offered on New Year’s Day got away.