Furniture

Lot 57 at Sutton Hill Farm Country Auctions on October 21 comprised ‘2 framed paintings, signed J Cole, one other’, taking a hammer price of £8. Lot 59, a ‘vintage Sesame Street Big Bird piano toy’ (in working order) made it into double figures, at £14.

An Ivan Da Silva Bruhns rug from the estate of Sire Records founder and art collector Seymour Stein outperformed expectations at Capsule Auctions’ (25% buyer’s premium) Art & Design sale in New York on September 27.

Focus on three days of dispersing the collection of renowned interior designer and antiques dealer

Christopher Legge of Legge Carpets is among the exhibitors at the Cotswold Art & Antiques Dealers’ Association Fair. He specialises in high-quality handmade carpet and textiles especially tribal weavings from Iran and central Asia.

Business partners look back at how their events and the market have evolved since their fairs launched.

The auction record for a pair of chairs was broken twice as part of Christie’s Rothschild family auction series in New York.

Alan Old of So Last Century Fairs has been talking to ATG about his ambitions as well as giving news of a new fair to be launched next year.

This kitschy Beatles table lamp discovered in a house clearance sold for an impressive £950 (estimate £100-150) on September 14.

An important piece of Irish marquetry furniture scheduled to sell in County Louth last week was withdrawn from sale at the 11th hour after a deal was struck with the National Museum of Ireland.

The first pieces of antique furniture ever to sell at Frieze Masters were snapped up as the 11th edition of the fair opened last week.

A stoneware birdbath designed by one of Rodin’s students was among the highlight sales at the autumn edition of the Decorative Antiques and Textiles Fair.

This George I giltwood side table offered by Lots Road Auctions (25% buyer’s premium) is one of a group typically attributed to James Moore.

The Cheshire showground event run by Arthur Swallow includes plenty of conversation starters.

The Roger Capron Navettes table from Tajan’s (26/21/14% buyer’s premium) September 19 sale of modern and contemporary ceramics, which was previewed in ATG No 2609, sold for €1000 (£870) including premium.

A spectacular pair of English giltwood and lacquer cabinets emerged for sale in Germany.

Country house auction boasted not just on-the-premises appeal but Guinness and Duleep Singh connection

A classic example of Italian ‘anti-design’ led Billings’ (30% buyer’s premium) latest auction of Modern Art & Design.

Two books concerning the world of antiques have recently been released with the support of UK dealers.

Three-inch globes were mostly sold as pocket globes, typically as a terrestrial globe contained within a ray-skin case with the celestial gores for the heavens pasted inside.