Decorative Art

Suffolk sale includes further selection from Chapman collection – but sculpture brings big surprise

A rare 16th century tin-glazed earthenware charger was the subject of an extraordinary bidding battle taking it to 130-times its estimate.

Phillips’ sale of two studio pottery collections of Lucie Rie and Hans Coper lived up to expectations and set two new auction records.

A rare ceramic cat given by David Hockney (b.1937) to strangers who helped him as a student fetched a record price for one of the artist’s sculptural felines when it sold at Stacey’s in Chelmsford.

An Ivan Da Silva Bruhns rug from the estate of Sire Records founder and art collector Seymour Stein outperformed expectations at Capsule Auctions’ (25% buyer’s premium) Art & Design sale in New York on September 27.

With her art collection dispersed through recent auction activity at Sotheby’s, Freeman’s and Toomey & Co, it is now time for the late Angela Gross Folk’s silver collection to come to market.

The September 24 sale at Fine Estate, Inc (23% buyer’s premium) in San Rafael, California, included this example of Anglo-Indian silver.

Charity donation from the collection of the man who brought Woolworths to the UK includes rare Tiffany vases.

Futurist and Cubist feline design figures higly in an extensive single-owner collection of ceramics

The auction record for a pair of chairs was broken twice as part of Christie’s Rothschild family auction series in New York.

This Italian polychrome lava stone and pietra dure panel is probably by the Sicilian mosaicist Giovanni Battista Cali.

This colonial-era Indian silver horse racing trophy is marked for Peter Orr and Sons of Madras.

Wassailing ceremonies on important feast days were a legacy of Anglo-Saxon culture.

An example of 20th century French-influenced painting by the Vietnamese artist Mai-Thu (1906-80) proved to be atop-selling lot.

Kinghams (25% buyer’s premium) had held its inaugural Silver & Objects of Vertu sale on September 8.

Elements from the Pearson collection of post-war silver - the largest assemblage of its kind in private hands - will be on display at Noonans in Mayfair.

The typical Clarice Cliff ginger jar measures just under 9in (22cm) high and around 6in (15cm) wide.

Sworders (25% buyer’s premium) timed online sale that closed on August 13 included this rare enamel by Ernestine Evans Mills (1871-1959).