Latest News Articles by Anne Crane
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High ranking Napoleonic marshal’s baton emerges at Fontainebleau auction
08 May 2024Michel Ney (1769-1815) was probably the most famous of Napoleon’s marshals.
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Arts & Crafts clock comes with a fairytale ending
06 May 2024This impressive clock featured in the sale held by Dorset firm Busby (25% buyer’s premium) on April 18.
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Wash your hands... go on, it won’t bite
06 May 2024This large silver zoomorphic aquamanile Caquesseitão (a vessel designed for the ceremonial washing of hands at the table) will feature as a highlight of the May sale to be held by Veritas Art Auctioneers in Lisbon.
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Amelia Robertson Hill: ‘A delight to see her works attaining recognition’
06 May 2024The Scottish sculptor Amelia Robertson Hill (1821-1904) was surrounded by artistic family members.
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Horology holds the attention during a four-day sale
06 May 2024Around 200 lots of clocks and watches feature in a strong section as part of a four-day sale
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Ornate mirror has the Thomas Johnson look about it
29 April 2024The furniture highlight of Cheffins’ (25/20/12.5% buyer’s premium) latest Fine sale in Cambridge was the catalogue cover star.
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Davenport displays Irish touch
29 April 2024Irish marquetry furniture is a very distinctive form of decorative technique associated in particular with Killarney.
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Fine copy of Hilliard’s miniature Raleigh portrait comes to light
29 April 2024The well-known miniature portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh by Nicholas Hilliard (c.1547-1619) in the National Portrait Gallery was painted c.1585, the year after Raleigh was knighted.
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Seat coverings come with Scottish family connection
29 April 2024Pictured here are two lots of seat furniture that impressed bidders in recent auctions in Gloucestershire and Cheshire.
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Furniture loaned to National Trust properties goes under the hammer
29 April 2024Many items from a group on offer in west London had been displayed at National Trust sites
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Up with the revolution (for porcelain)
29 April 2024Russian porcelain is still in demand, especially those early Soviet-era pieces from the years following the Revolution.
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Rich pickings in the Cotswolds
22 April 2024It was a piece of modern design that led Kinghams’ (25/18/15% buyer’s premium) latest dedicated sale of silver and objects of vertu.
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Dressed to kilt: a super sporran
22 April 2024This early 20th century 10in (25cm) long sporran impressed in Edinburgh at Franklin Browns (18% buyer’s premium).
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Barehead spoon boasts early date
22 April 2024A highlight of Anderson & Garland’s (25% buyer’s premium) recent silver sale was a particularly early and rare North Country seal top spoon.
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Tortoise novelty silver could be a sound purchase
22 April 2024A table bell was among the more sought-after lots in a dedicated 200-plus lot silver sale held by Roseberys (26/25/20% buyer’s premium) on March 20.
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Cistern used for wine doubles up as racing trophy
22 April 2024A substantial piece of Edwardian silver which has served both as a wine cistern and a racing trophy was the most expensive piece of silver in Tennants’ (24/20% buyer’s premium) dedicated auction of jewellery, watches and silver.
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Bowls both with links to influential designer Dresser
22 April 2024These two pieces share a common Aesthetic-movement style and a link to the influential and avant-garde designer Christopher Dresser
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Rare oval Chardin still life comes to auction in Paris this summer
16 April 2024A still life by the 18th century French artist Jean-Siméon Chardin with a notable provenance is to go under the hammer at Christie’s in Paris this summer.
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European ceramics that went to Oz come back on the market
15 April 2024Deceased estates and collectors selling up mean items collected in the late 20th century reappear at auction.
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George Owen Worcester wins admirers
15 April 2024Andrew Morris spent over 30 years putting together a collection focusing on the Worcester porcelain of the Kerr and Binns and Royal Worcester periods and Leonard Joel (25% buyer’s premium) offered it at auction in Melbourne, Australia, over two days on March 25-26.