Furniture

A Maori hei-tiki pendant offered in Cheltenham on September 16 had an old paper label verso stating that it originally belonged to Makoare Te Taonui.

An ensemble of furnishings by the French designer/decorator Eugène Printz (1879- 1948) that were created in the 1930s for a villa in Casablanca, Morocco, will feature at Briscadieu Bordeaux in the French city on November 6.

It was in the wake of the Great Fire of London in 1666 that the first societies were created to protect against the losses caused by fire.

Although not catalogued as such, this occasional table offered at auction is made to a well-known Aesthetic movement design by EW Godwin.

To mark its 130th year in business, long-running antiques and decorative arts specialist John Bly has launched a new venture.

Lisbon firm Veritas is holding an estate sale of works from the collection of the Count of Póvoa, D Manuel de Souza e Holstein-Beck, who died in 2011.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

Few furniture forms suffered a bigger crash in prices than the davenport.

Prices for good-quality writing desks continue to recover – as was evident when a George II example more than tripled top hopes.

Andrew Jones in Los Angeles is selling two single-owner collections in online-only auctions in October.

Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944) designed a number of daring light fittings for his architectural projects – all of them rare and desirable objects.

Once again illustrating that few countries of origin have as great an impact on furniture prices as Malta, this 18th century commode sold for £6800 at Dawsons’ (23% buyer’s premium) July 29 Maidenhead sale.

Collection of distinctive pre-war glass produced in Perth impresses at local saleroom

A rare early 18th century folding table and a William III clock were spotted at recent auctions by a Cambridgeshire dealer.

The second day of Bellmans’ (22% buyer’s premium) sale on August 3-5 included a Chinese hardwood table that catapulted way above its £1000-1500 estimate.

Nearly 200 items of Al Capone memorabilia are coming to the market for the first time after being consigned to a California auction by his granddaughters.

Eight phone bidders competed for this splendid ebony and pietra dura table casket offered at a recent auction at Claydon Auctioneers in Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire.

The dictum that class is permanent was borne out in a Newbury saleroom by prices for damaged pieces