Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner
Bronze stands out at Battersea fair
18 October 2021Top selling items at The Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair in Battersea included a large bronze sculpture.
Incense burner topped by a dog and ball
18 October 2021This Meiji period iron incense burner from Japan was made using nunome zogan: the art of inlaying different metals into one another.
From print form to three dimensions
18 October 2021Most likely taken from black and white prints, these porcelain figures of a Jewish man and woman were created c.1740 during the Qianlong period.
Human body and a horse’s head in harmony
18 October 2021The Tang dynasty, considered a golden age of reform and cultural advancement in China lasting from 618-907, is the focus of Eskenazi’s exhibition .
5 Questions: Steve and Kerry Amies of Track 21 Interiors
18 October 2021Steve and Kerry Amies of Track 21 Interiors trade from fairs and online.
The web shop window: a Japanese pipe case
18 October 2021Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
Technical masterpiece that emerged in the Song and Yuan dynasties
18 October 2021This reticulated Longquan celadon pear-shaped vase is one of the stars in an exhibition at Littleton & Hennessey in Duke Street, London.
Good times in a boat artwork combines tradition and modernity
18 October 2021Created with handmade paper, gold leaf and ink, this large work Good Times: Boating Together was made in 2020 by Yao Jui-chung (b.1969).
Vote of confidence for St James’s with Asian art dealers moving to the area
18 October 2021A group of Asian art dealers have committed to new spaces in St James’s.
Go on a treasure hunt at Firsts
11 October 2021Tolkien classic in bespoke binding is one of the highlights as the London event returns
New specialist at Jenna Burlingham
11 October 2021Modern British art gallery Jenna Burlingham Fine Art has appointed Lydia Wingfield Digby as its new gallery specialist.
Tale of Bedouin life roams into new London event
11 October 2021This October, the capital hosts The London Autumn Book Fair – a fresh addition to the Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association’s (PBFA) 2021 calendar.
Ede gaze falls on black glaze pottery
11 October 2021Antiquities specialist Charles Ede is celebrating its 50th anniversary with an exhibition and catalogue championing the understated elegance of Greek black glaze pottery.
Thompson’s opens third gallery
11 October 2021Thompson’s Galleries, specialist in Modern and Contemporary British art, is opening a third exhibition space this October.
The web shop window: Carlo Lasinio engraving
11 October 2021Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
5 Questions: Furniture dealer Rowland Leach
11 October 2021Rowland Leach runs interior design and antique business French Loft with his wife Mary, specialising in 17th and 18th century French and English country furniture.
US museum buys a van Overbeek
11 October 2021The Cleveland Museum of Art in Ohio has become the third US institution to hold a work by the obscure Dutch artist Michel van Overbeek (fl.1650-1719) after acquiring this small drawing of the Pyramid of Cestius in Rome.
Art & Antiques for Everyone fair back in Birmingham in November
04 October 2021Organisers of the Art & Antiques for Everyone (AAfE) fair have announced it will return this winter to its venue at the NEC in Birmingham from November 25-28.
Cotswold fair makes its debut appearance at Compton Verney after enforced move
04 October 2021Grand venues can work wonders for fair organisers helping to get punters through the door while providing an ideal backdrop for dealers to showcase their stock.