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Art and antiques news from 2015
It was all change at the top in 2015 with Tad Smith replacing Bill Ruprecht as CEO of Sotheby's, Patricia Barbizet taking over from Stephen P Murphy as CEO of Christie's and Matthew Girling moving up to the role of global CEO at Bonhams.
Stephan Ludwig and Ian Goldbart, creators of the group of businesses that include Dreweatts, Baldwin's and Mallett, suddenly departed in the early autumn of 2015.
Dealer association BADA brought in an industry outsider as its new CEO - Marco Forgione, former head of events industry trade body EVCOM.
In other news, dealer Richard Green made his debut at Masterpiece in London, cementing the fair's place as a major event in the annual calendar.
The antiques industry waited nervously to see whether the newly elected Conservative government would carry out its manifesto pledge to "press for a total ban on ivory sales".
Mallett heads depart after turbulent 2015
31 December 2015The upheaval at venerable Mayfair and Manhattan dealership Mallett continued at the end of 2015 with the departure of two senior executives.
Neville and Mallett New York branch tied to embezzlement case
31 December 2015The New York branch of Mallett and the company’s former director in the Big Apple, Henry Neville, are embroiled in the case brought by US authorities against Robert A Olins, the disgraced former chief executive of a technology company.
New head for Sotheby’s Europe
31 December 2015Sotheby’s have announced that Mario Tavella, deputy chairman of Sotheby’s Europe and European head of single-owner collections, will become président directeur général of Sotheby’s France.

James I watch makes £850,000 at Sotheby’s
31 December 2015The market for traditional antiques ended 2015 on a high with a series of spectacular individual prices posted in London and New York in mid-December.

Phillips set new high for Martin Brothers
31 December 2015Phillips set a new high for Martinware with the sale of this 14in (36cm) high bird jar modelled as Benjamin Disraeli for a double-estimate $190,000 (£126,670).

New member of ATG editorial team
31 December 2015The Antiques Trade Gazette has hired a new reporter as the 45-year-old title continues its evolution online and in print. Frances Allitt, a fine art underwriter and magazine columnist, starts on January 11.
Cottees premium falls for early 2016
31 December 2015As an introductory offer to their new saleroom near Poole, Cottees will be reducing both their seller’s commission and buyer’s premium to 10% (plus VAT) for the first three months of 2016.
Tough sentences issued after south of England thefts
31 December 2015Three men have been sentenced to jail for their parts in a spree of antiques thefts perpetrated in January 2014 across the south of England.
BADA to campaign against quarterly tax returns
31 December 2015The British Antique Dealers’ Association is p09nning to mount a campaign with other business bodies to halt a government plan to require all businesses, regardless of size, to file tax returns on a quarterly, digital basis rather than annually.
ATG Media and Mail Boxes form logistics partnership
29 December 2015ATG Media, parent of the Antiques Trade Gazette, and Mail Boxes Etc have joined forces to provide a new delivery service for buyers on thesaleroom.com.
Commission suggest legal definition for ‘antique’ firearms
23 December 2015The Law Commission, the independent body which reviews laws in England and Wales, have recommended to the government that the term ‘antique firearm’ be defined in statute for the first time.

Qianlong vase brings house record in Derbyshire
22 December 2015Hansons of Etwall in Derbyshire posted a new house record in the closing days of 2015 with the sale of a 13in (32cm) high Qianlong (1736-95) mark and period famille rose vase for £300,000.
80 redundancies at Sotheby’s
22 December 2015Sotheby’s are to make some 80 positions redundant as part of the company’s efforts to reduce costs.
Fund opened to support dealer’s family
21 December 2015The Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association (PBFA) has begun to collect funds to support the wife and young children of the late Justin Skrebowski.

Grosvenor Print forger sentenced
21 December 2015A retired academic and art lecturer has been handed a six-month suspended sentence after admitting to forging a number of Grosvenor School linocut prints and attempting to pass them off as genuine through various auction houses.
Scott collection fires the market for English clocks
18 December 2015One of the most ambitious dealer selling exhibitions of recent memory – the Tom Scott collection of clocks at Carter Marsh – has concluded with market-defining sales for the Winchester dealership.

A third Union flag flown at Trafalgar?
17 December 2015A Union flag, by repute flown by one of Nelson’s warships at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, carries an estimate of £30,000-50,000 at sporting gun specialists Holt’s on March 17.

Liberty and Liberalism combine for Archibald Knox record
16 December 2015This gold and peacock blue enamel necklace designed by Archibald Knox sold for £31,000 at Mallams in Oxford.

Appeal after £20,000 Honiton theft
15 December 2015Silver and jewellery with a total value of around £20,000 was stolen in a raid at Chilcotts auctioneers in Honiton, Devon, in the early hours of Friday, December 4.

Wright of Derby grotto scene makes £550,000 to aid refugee crisis
14 December 2015Among the works drawing interest at the latest round of Old Master and British Paintings sales in London was Joseph Wright of Derby’s (1734-97) ‘A grotto in the gulf of Salerno...’.