South-east England

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

It is 20 years ago that the auction record for Clarice Cliff was sent tumbling when an 18in (46cm) May Avenue charger sold for £34,000 at Christie’s South Kensington on May 14, 2003. Those were heady days indeed.

Among the most popular lots in the Guinevere: 60 Years on the King’s Road sale was this rare Italian marquetery, vellum and bronze sideboard.

A large stoneware vessel by studio potter John Ward (1938- 2023) sold for £35,000 (plus 25% buyer’s premium) as part of a private collection of his work offered by Dreweatts on July 11.

Shown here is a copy in Latin of the 'Quirtii Horatii Flacci' opera, 1823, presented by Charles Dickens to his Latin tutor Richard Shiers (mentioned in a book titled 'The Life of Charles Dickens', p45).

Family group at auction offered works by several generations including the renowned John Sell Cotman

Almanacs became hugely popular as printing made them widely accessible

A lucernal microscope is a rare survivor.

The 40 trays of British butterflies in this handsome mahogany four-section cabinet by JJ Hill & Son of London were collected by Geoffrey Alfred Cole.

A group of Victorian rowing memorabilia generated plenty of bidding at Claydon Auctioneers (19.5% buyer’s premium) in Buckinghamshire on June 25-26.

Colour is at the core of Zuleika Gallery’s latest exhibition, one of several to focus on British abstract art this summer.

An early career in London led Chris Ewbank, who died on June 25 aged 78, to the auction business at the Cubitt & West salerooms in Guildford – a few miles west of his childhood home in Mayfield, Sussex, where his father was an estate agent-cum-auctioneer.

Needing work but with an impeccable pedigree, this striking drop-dial wall clock topped the day at Bellmans (25% buyer’s premium).

The June 8 sale at Toovey’s (24.5% buyer’s premium) in Washington, West Sussex included a fine example of Meiji cloisonné by Namikawa Yasuyuki (1845-1927).

B2B gives up the Detling Showground organisation after more than a decade but still runs Malvern

Painting of an Indian Mutiny scene smashes the record thanks to bidding from the sub-continent

Buffy Parker is celebrating 50 years in the art market.

Auctioneer Chris Ewbank, who launched the Ewbank’s saleroom in Send, Surrey, has died.

Merchandise relating to an early show from the Thunderbirds creator makes a surprise sum at Kent auction

It is not just Star Wars figures or film posters bringing the big bucks.