Furniture

A pair of George III period carved giltwood salon armchairs in neoclassical taste, c.1775, are among the highlights at The Cotswolds Decorative Antiques & Art Fair.

China trade wares attract significant bidding at Dreweatts

Ripley Castle’s website describes a history of persecution, plague, loyalty, social turbulence and recklessness.

Knowledgeable bidders spot a design by Owen Jones on offer in North Yorkshire

While the market for post-war wares by Thompson’s of Kilburn – particularly the animal and figure carvings – has grown substantially in recent years, the ‘prime period’ for Mouseman collecting remains the 1920s-30s.

Dealer promises to promote Nottingham specialist fair

Pennsylvania dealership HL Chalfant, a specialist in American decorative arts, offers a turned banister back armchair at this year’s Philadelphia Show. The chair itself was made in Pennsylvania, c.1730- 40, and is available for $35,000.

A passion that began with a single tray acquired on a football away day pub visit has led to the creation of a breweriana museum

Fang secret society relic comes with long provenance to French colonial governor

A large collection of Victorian oil lamps was sold by Fellows (23% buyer’s premium) as part of a timed online auction ending on March 15.

This Louis XVI-style commode from c.1900 is by the Parisian ébéniste François Linke (1855-1946).

A new high for a piece of Chantilly porcelain and two pre-emptions for paintings featured in a recent sale held by Daguerre (30% buyer’s premium) at Drouot in Paris.

A characteristically elaborately pierced and carved oak hall chair by the US furniture maker and designer Charles Rohlfs (1853-1936) proved to be the toast of the most recent Cottone (20% buyer’s premium) auction.

The London firm Samuel Jackson seems to have specialised in mounting other materials in silver to produce wine-coolers.

I very much enjoyed Roland Arkell’s excellent article on Ercol furniture (ATG No 2531).

Stuart Murray is from Retrovintage, specialist in British and Scandinavian design-led furniture of the mid 20th-century, from the 1950s-70s, with a “particular love for pieces by the preeminent Danish designers of this period”.

Highlights from Christie’s sales of works from the collection of Hubert de Givenchy, which are to be sold in Paris in June, are currently on a world tour that takes in the US: Palm Beach March 5-26; New York April 8-13 and Los Angeles April 27-29; then Hong Kong May 23-27 before returning to Paris.

A round-up of current catalogues from folk-art at the rescheduled Winter Show to the Mellor-Cobham collection of English porcelain at Albert Amor

The contents of the Château de Jouac in Haute-Vienne, which was the family home of Clovis Trouille (1889-1975), an artist associated with the French Surrealists, are to be offered by Mirabaud Mercier.