2017

A Chinese dish, once valued on the BBC’s ‘Antiques Roadshow’, has sold at Hansons Auctioneers for £230,000.

More than 60 attendees competed in teams at The Art Loss Register pub quiz on Wednesday night.

An antiques dealer and Kent Police are calling on the trade to be aware of stolen silver items from a shop in Tenterden in Kent.

Following the news of Hugh Hefner’s death yesterday, many tributes have revived the classic joke about “reading Playboy for the articles”.

Works by the highly-regarded Danish designer Finn Juhl (1912-1989) secured the three top slots in Bruun Rasmussen’s Nordic Masters design sale held in Copenhagen this week.

Dealer Philip Mould was among the bidders at Sotheby’s sale of the Yeats collection this week.

Auction house Sotheby’s has awarded two US museums a prize of $125,000 each as part of its new exhibition competition.

An Oxfordshire antiques dealer will offer a rare and unusual piece of political satire at the upcoming Chester Antiques Show (October 12-15).

A group of young trade members gathered on Kensington Church Street yesterday for an evening of networking.

The desk used by poet WB Yeats has sold for £150,000 (£187,000 inc premium) this morning, five times its top estimate of £30,000.

Cameras, scientific and medical instruments specialist Flints Auctioneers held its first auction this month and a 19th century French telescope was among the highlights of the sale.

Old master dealership Colnaghi is to open a gallery in New York and will expand into ancient art with the hiring of a new director from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

One of the UK’s largest collections of Outsider art will to be offered for sale at Newcastle auctioneers, Anderson & Garland next month.

The highlight of Bonhams’ latest sale of oak furniture in London was a joined coffer made in the West Country and dating from 1609.

Leading players in Irish arts and culture have protested at the sale of the Yeats Collection by Sotheby’s tomorrow (September 27), urging the Irish government to intervene and save it for the nation.

This Ivory Coast Ligbi mask was one of the highlight sales at the recent edition of Tribal Art London.

Dealer Bendor Grosvenor’s returning series ‘Britain’s Lost Masterpieces’ has discovered a work by Flemish artist Sir Peter Paul Rubens in a National Trust property in Glasgow.

More than 1000 works were acquired by the Tate in the last year according to its latest annual report. They ranged from Old Masters to Contemporary art and had a combined value of £27.4m.

In our weekend series, Antiques Trade Gazette brings you a selection of quotes from dealers, auctioneers and others. This week we celebrate 40 year of Antiques Roadshow – and the British stiff upper lip.