Print issue 2391 (11 May 2019)
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News
- New owners at Art & Antiques for Everyone
- Online Galleries shut down by owner now wanting to focus on its 1stdibs dealer portal
- Lymington Auctions takes on George Kidner rooms
- Spicer breathes new life into East Yorkshire fine art auctions
- Museum buys synagogue view by Jewish pioneer
- Strong selling rates across New York’s Classic Week auctions
- John Sandon stands down at Bonhams after 44 years in pots
- Magnificent results for Suleyman portrait and two Safavid carpets in latest Islamic art auction series
News Digest
- Pick of the week: Du Maurier dazzles as buyers worlwide snap up all 354 lots of writer's archive
- Bid Barometer
- Reminder of a female pilot’s wartime bravery at auction in Kent
- Precious metals prices: issue 2391
- News In Brief – including new hires at Phillips
Features
- ASIAN ART: Quality counts in Japanese market
- Qing pen box takes £33,000 at Surrey sale
- Hardwood bitong emerges at Bath auction
- Kangxi plaques attract multiple bidders in Suffolk
- Volume of UK sales of Asian art remains healthy
- Huthart collection of netsuke offered at Bonhams
- Asian source consigns Qianlong throne to Christie’s
- 'Scholar’s Treasures' at Chiswick Auctions includes Qing carved wood displays
- A grand Chinese view and at Japanese teabowl stand emerge at Woolley & Wallis
- Bellmans offer 18th century Canton plaque in West Sussex
- Sotheby’s to offer Shibata Zeshin panel in London sale
- Tang dynasty rabbit makes appearance at Timeline Auctions
- Wanli altar vase heads to Duke’s
- Kangxi famille verte vase offered at Halls
- Lyon & Turnbull offer illustrations commissioned by missionary in Shanghai
- Skidmore collection at Henry Aldridge features Chinese export silver
- East India Company captain's Chinese export charger appears at Sworders
- Dreweatts to offer Xuande bronze ‘dragon’ censer
- Second tranche of Kisan works offered at Roseberys
- Mother and child painting by French Vietnamese artist emerges at Special Auction Services
- Meiji period monkey figure offered at Fieldings
- Paris springs into Asian action with 10-days of auctions, exhibitions and events
- Peach of a pair of Melba vases offered at Bonhams in Australia
- Hong Kong antiques fair set for 12th edition
- CERAMICS: Dearth of dedicated sales but rich pickings still emerge at multi-discipline auctions
- Bridgin name adds appeal to Caughley jug at Woolley & Wallis
- Early Chelsea porcelain continues to attract bidders
- Abolitionist mug draws interest at Lawrences
- Worcester dishes produce blinding result at Dreweatts
- Bonhams glass and ceramics specialist John Sandon looks back at his life in auctions
- Saddle up for English horse selection
- Sevres pot at Drouot auction is one of Versailles pair
- Lion and bears give bite to French basin
- Traditional ceramics head to London auctions in the latest formats
- More Lowestoft at Keys includes rare inkwell
Auction Reports
- ART MARKET: Bold buyers win the top prizes at auction
- William Ratcliffe lays out the case for his talents
- Affordable art: Three works sold for under £900 including a watercolour of Cliveden House
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Royal Navy journals become surprise success at South Cerney auction
- Golf, Goldfinger and an early 007 classic sell at Swann New York
- Auckland auction focus on Antarctic
- British and Irish book auctions: May 8-15, 2019
- The recipe for disaster in cookery book sold at auction
- Monk into the swim of things at German saleroom
Previews
- Previews: Up to £500
- Previews: £501 - £2000
- Previews: £2001 - £5000
- Previews: £5001 - £30,000
- Preview: £30,000 plus
Dealers’ Diary
- Painting of a cow at Robert Young's annual exhibition shows rare example of restoration
- Buxton fair back ‘where it belongs’
- 5 Questions: Christina Jansen
- The web shop window: 'Roses in an Omega Pot' by Duncan Grant
- Vast Vaughan work for sale at gallery Osborne Samuel
- Table topper at Battersea decorative fair
- Book dealer Bryars starts new chapter as a model
Collector Interview
Fairs & Markets
- Fresh shoots for antiques dealers’ collective Blanchard in Wiltshire
- Vintage fair makes it a 10-year fashion statement
- Spencer Swaffer question time cancelled
- Business brews for antiques dealers at Victorian malthouse in Stroud
- Two specialist vintage fair events in the Midlands on the same day in May
Letters & Obituary
- My plea on the derisory ‘Penny Farthing’ term
- Not so rare but highly desirable
- Obituary: Memories of art dealer Patrick Payne
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