Print issue 2453 (08 August 2020)
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News
- ‘Outdoor’ Petworth can go ahead in September as indoor events cancelled until October
- Pick of the week: Bidding battle as Dutch drawings sound call to arms
- Individual highlights at London 'high season' sales but totals hit as vendors hang on to works
- Gold at all-time record as silver rises sharply
- The £260,000 joy of Qianlong’s hanging bottles
News Digest
- Bid Barometer: issue 2453
- George VI expresses thanks to therapist
- Precious metals prices: issue 2453
- News in Brief – including Flints launching jewellery auctions
Auction Reports
- Mid-17th century sleeve vase among items bringing muscular bidding at Salisbury post-lockdown sale
- China’s bountiful produce from a career diplomat
- It’s not what you know but Who you know
- Knives out to Danish buyer
- Sixties posters on a high
- ART MARKET: Clouds lift for a Constable fan
- Two tastes of Yorkshire
- Affordable art: Three works sold for under £600 including a William Wyllie marine
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Letters feature prominently in exceptionally varied Edinburgh auction
- Copy of Viscount Kingsborough’s 'Antiquities of Mexico' sells at Christie's in New York
- British and Irish book auctions: August 4-20, 2020
Previews
Dealers’ Diary
- Dealers get busy and hope for August uplift as post-lockdown trade resumes
- New stock offered at Cecil Court's summer showcase
- Five dealer-led online showcases opening up this summer
- Elisabeth Frink studio reconstructed thanks to dealer Messums
International
- Flask with a ducal dedication offered at Denver auction
- Plaque perfect for a chocolate fan
- Chad Valley toy car motors into New Jersey sale
- Rock and Roll poster set to make a big noise in Dallas saleroom
- Single-owner Eisenberg collection comes to Indianapolis auction
- Britains’ boxed waggon reaches Pittsburgh
Fairs, Markets & Centres
- Organisers frustrated by venue rules
- Shepton Flea leaps back into action at showground
- Carmarthen fair put on hold
- Rare Alphonse Visconti poster provides memory of travel joys
- Long Melford centre ready to reopen
- Stallholders raring to go at Jay fair
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