Latest News Articles by Roland Arkell
Lalique glass and a bullet-shaped teapot are among five lots to watch at auction this week
17 February 2020With estimates from £100-1500, here are five previews of upcoming items this week.
Fishy Pelham footman puppet pulls the strings at Hansons
17 February 2020The Fish Footman puppet is among the most sought after of the entire back catalogue of Pelham Puppets.
Headlamps go for glamour at West Sussex sale
17 February 2020According to patent documents dated February 1928, Woodlite headlamps invented by a William G Woods of Los Angeles were said to give the driver better illumination of distant objects ahead.
Elizabethan beer jug, Irish chess set, Iron ‘witch's bridle’ – six auction highlights that caught bidders’ eyes
14 February 2020ATG’s weekly selection of hammer highlights this week includes a Victorian iron head mask known as a gossip's bridle or witch's bridle that sold in Essex.
Portrait of Napoleon’s sister sells in New York
10 February 2020This large and imposing portrait of Pauline Bonaparte, the younger sister of Napoleon, sold for$310,000 (£238,700) in New York last week.
A Suffolk watercolour, grape shears and Chinese tea caddies are among six lots to watch at auction
10 February 2020With estimates from £120-3000 here are six previews of upcoming items in the next fortnight.
Sèvres porcelain collection of Judith Howard sold at auction after 48 years of acquisition and study
10 February 2020Judith Howard (1945-2019), collector, part-time dealer, museum curator, author, TV expert and lecturer, was a self-confessed ‘maximalist’. Every shelf and wall space in her Wiltshire end-of-terrace was there to be filled. Dusting was a chore reserved for just one day a year.
Maiolica discoveries at Newbattle
10 February 2020The opening lot of the Five Centuries sale at Lyon & Turnbull (25% buyer’s premium) in Edinburgh on February 5 was this previously unrecorded maiolica handled and spouted wet drug jar.
Record annual total and sales volume for London's numismatic auction houses
10 February 2020A record take of £48m and a one-third increase in the number of lots available to bidders – ATG reviews a healthy 2019 for London numismatic saleroom
Arts & Crafts ewer, 17th century bible and neoclassical intaglios – five auction highlights that caught bidders’ eyes in the last week
07 February 2020ATG’s selection of hammer highlights this week includes an 18th century Dutch East India Company bell that sold for more than 12-times estimate.
Regional market strong despite a year of turmoil
03 February 2020Business was certainly hard-won but the elite of Britain and Ireland’s regional fine art auction houses enjoyed a largely positive 2019.
Pick of the week: Purse strings open for a rare survivor
03 February 2020An early 17th century Limoges enamel draw purse attracted a flurry of bids at Chorley’s Attic Sale in Gloucestershire. Set with period portraits of a lady on one side and a gentleman on the other, the accessory has remained intact for about 400 years – in most examples the fabric has deteriorated significantly.