Latest News Articles by Roland Arkell
Scottish country house supplies £36,000 vase
18 May 2020A Beijing enamel vase from a Scottish country house topped the Asian art sale held ‘behind closed doors’ by Lyon & Turnbull (25% buyer’s premium).
A feline vesta case and a Stuart embroidered panel are among six lots to watch at auction this week
18 May 2020With estimates from £60-6000 here are six previews of upcoming items.
William and Mary longcase clock strikes the right notes at Tennants
18 May 2020Results from two salerooms including an £18,000 longcase reflect strong demand
Schneider brothers take a peek into royal palaces
18 May 2020Trudpert Schneider (1804-99), a Freiburg carpenter whose first brush with photography was to repair a broken box camera, is today deemed one of Germany’s most important daguerreotypists.
Ventriloquist’s doll highly spoken of in Tetsworth auction
18 May 2020The sale held by Swan Fine Art (20% buyer’s premium) in Tetsworth on May 6 included a fine-quality ventriloquist’s doll, c.1930.
Auction previews: issue 2443
18 May 2020The auction calendar has been much changed by Covid 19 restrictions. However, as indicated by these lots offered for sale, an increasing number of auction houses are transacting safely behind closed doors holding timed sales or ‘live online’ sales with bids taken via bidding platforms such as thesaleroom.com or over the phone. Typically purchases can either be collected safely and couriered, or stored by the auction house until the current government guidance is lifted. With auction houses set to be able to be reopen premises to the public from June 1, more and more sales are now being added to the auction calendar.
Scandinavian silver vase and coins for Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee are among five auction highlights that caught bidders’ eyes
15 May 2020ATG’s selection of hammer highlights this week includes a full proof set of coins issued by the Royal Mint for Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee in 1887 and a silver vase from c. 1920 marked for prize-winning designers Svend Hammershoi and Holger Kyster.
Pick of the week: Chinese vase sets new online record
11 May 2020A Chinese blue and white vase achieved a hammer price of over £3m at an online auction that closed in Singapore last week.
Cain Hoy porcelain: number of known survivors grows to 11 as tea bowl and saucer emerge at Adam Partridge
11 May 2020More previously unrecorded porcelain attributed to the John Bartlam factory of Cain Hoy, South Carolina, has emerged for sale in the UK.
Victorian butter dish and bagpipes from the Somme are among four lots to watch at auction this week
11 May 2020With estimates from £40-5000 here are four previews of upcoming items this week.
Jewellery auction previews: 18 upcoming lots including a Tiffany Art Nouveau necklace
11 May 2020A selection of stand-out lots coming up at auction
Joel Arthur Rosenthal – an open secret
11 May 2020The cult following that surrounds publicity-shy Joel Arthur Rosenthal continues to grow. Secondary market prices for JAR fashion jewellery are reaching new heights.
Bronze group purchaser could be rewarded if research confirms Giambologna link
11 May 2020At Keys (20% buyer’s premium) in Aylsham a lot catalogued as ‘a patinated bronze group of a lion attacking a horse’ drew – and to an extent commanded – much attention.
Credence ready for revival
11 May 2020Form, colour and condition are defining criteria in the oak market – and unfortunately this 17th century oak ‘credence’ offered by Claydon Auctioneers (19.5% buyer’s premium) in Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire, on April 27 was a lacking on at least two fronts.
Sworders to hold monthly jewellery sales as Jacqueline Adams heads to Tennants
11 May 2020Among the major changes to Sworders’ auction calendar because of the coronavirus lockdown is the addition of a monthly sale of jewellery, watches and objects of vertu.
Christopher Dresser shows his spirit of adventure
11 May 2020This vessel with its cluster of bottles around a central conical vase is one of several well-known Dresser-Linthorpe models that owe a debt to pre-Columbian art.
Auction previews: issue 2442
11 May 2020The auction calendar has been much changed by Covid 19 restrictions. However, as indicated by these lots offered for sale in May, some UK auctioneers continue to transact behind closed doors holding ‘live online’ sales with bids taken via bidding platforms such as thesaleroom.com or over the phone. Typically purchases can either be collected safely and couriered, or stored by the auctioneers until the current government guidance is lifted.
Signatures boost Live Aid poster price
11 May 2020This original poster marks Live Aid, the dual-venue benefit concert held simultaneously in London and Philadelphia on July 13, 1985.
Légion d'honneur sword and early ventriloquist's doll are among five auction highlights that caught bidders’ eyes
08 May 2020ATG’s selection of hammer highlights this week includes a rare French First Empire sword for a Légion d'honneur recipient that made over 35-times estimate.
Chinese blue and white vase sets auction record at online sale
05 May 2020A Chinese blue and white vase achieved a hammer price of over £3m at an online auction that closed in Singapore this week.