Metalware
This sector comprises artefacts made from both base and precious metals. Many antique items were originally used for domestic purposes but are now collected on account of their craftsmanship, decorative quality and social interest.
Items can range from include pewter jugs, tin pots, brass bells, copper weathervanes and cast iron benches.
While this area offers plenty of affordable material, rare historical survivors can command high prices.
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Bell to announce ships in Ceylon stands proud in Scotland
02 March 2020This 14in (25cm) diameter bronze bell shown here bears the insignia of the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (the Dutch East India Company or VOC), the date 1747 and the name Jaffanapatnam. It is suspended in a wrought iron frame and mounted to a large stone mill wheel.
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Moigniez bronze bird flies into German auction
27 January 2020When he was only 20, the French sculptor Jules Moigniez exhibited one of his works at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1855.
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Royal history behind the £99,000 candelabra
27 January 2020Highlight literally and metaphorically of the Woolley & Wallis sale on January 8 was a pair of ormolu and hardstone-mounted candelabra, superb in themselves and packed with French royal history.
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Pick of the week: Gimson is top dog of Arts & Crafts
16 December 2019Cotswolds steel masterworks bring £50,000.
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The web shop window: a cockerel weathervane at Robert Young Antiques
04 November 2019Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
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Head of a saint in Munich sale
28 October 2019The extensive autumn sale at Hermann Historica in Munich runs from November 11-20 and is accompanied by five catalogues for the ‘bricks and mortar’ sale and a further six for the subsequent online auctions.
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Lloyd’s candlesticks are Suffolk cover stars
30 September 2019Pair of candlesticks light up auction with surprise result.
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Big money for Russian bronze
19 August 2019Not always predicted but overwhelming when it comes, big-money Russian interest sent a bronze equine group soaring at Dawson’s (23% buyer’s premium) in Maidenhead.
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Metalware provides a wide price range for buyers to ponder
05 August 2019Metalware in all its forms played a major part in the development of the Bauhaus and recent sales contained examples in every price range.
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Ground hero: mortars from Schwarzach collection impress at Cologne auction
01 July 2019Cologne auction house Lempertz (24% buyer’s premium) held a recent sale devoted to the Schwarzach Collection of mortars, which is thought to be the most extensive of its type in Europe, if not worldwide.
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Carved coral Tripani adviser
24 June 2019Italy – or more specifically Sicily – came up trumps for Stamford auction house Batemans (20% buyer’s premium) in the form of this 4½in (11cm) carved coral and copper-gilt urn and cover.
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Dutch dealer goes miniature for tableware and furniture
27 May 2019Illustrated below is one of seven lots of Dutch ‘white metal ’ miniature tableware and furniture entered into a weekly general sale at Gorringe’s (21% buyer’s premium).
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Tobacco taken with a conscience
20 May 2019Almost wholly reliant on slavery, the tobacco industry was the subtle target of British Abolitionists 50 years before Britain outlawed slavery and nearly a century before the American Civil War.
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Cologne saleroom offers 115 bronze mortars from collection
29 April 2019On May 17, Cologne auction house Lempertz is selling 115 bronze mortars from the 8th-18th centuries.
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Estate provides Chelsea candlesticks to Stair Galleries in New York
19 April 2019English and Continental porcelain from several notable estates is included in Stair Galleries’ next fine sale in Hudson, New York, on April 27-28.
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‘Surrey’ enamel candlestick draws admirers in New York
25 February 2019This exceptional candlestick belongs to a small group of cast and enamelled brass wares made in the second half of the 17th century. All are distinguished by their method of production: unlike champlévé or cloisonné decoration, the enamelled fields were cast in the mould.
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Cotswold School Arts & Crafts sconce speculation
04 February 2019A set of four Cotswold School Arts & Crafts wall sconces, one shown below, was catalogued by Moore Allen & Innocent (20% buyer’s premium) as in the Wild Strawberry pattern and in the manner of Ernest Gimson (1864-1919).
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Guillemin torchères shine in Selborne
21 January 2019Topped by the 17th century Dutch bottles at £30,000 (see ATG No 2375), the year’s first sale at Hannam’s (23% buyer’s premium) had other treasures among the 2000 lots including the French bronze figural torchères, right.
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Lalique mirror saved from dustbin
17 December 2018The bronze pieces produced by Rene Lalique are perhaps less well-known than the master’s jewellery and glass but seldom so under-rated that they are consigned to the dustbin, as was the case with this c.1910 hand mirror, below.
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Rediscovered: a gift to the Sun King from Siam returns to Versailles after auction
01 October 2018The only known item of silverware to have survived from a lavish diplomatic gift presented to Louis XIV by the King of Siam has been acquired by the Palace of Versailles via a private treaty sale through auction firm Beaussant Lefèvre.
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