2018

The BBC is to launch a new daytime antiques show with Flog It! presenter Paul Martin fronting the venture.

A London art dealer is in a high court battle with the Arts Council over the export of a Giotto di Bondone painting valued at £10m.

TEFAF New York’s Fall exhibitor list comprises 93 dealers including 10 fresh faces to the fair such as Benjamin Proust and Galerie Cybele.

Dealers reported a clutch of early sales in the first few hours of the Masterpiece London fair this week.

Marc Sands, who joined as chief marketing officer in April 2014, is leaving to “pursue other creative opportunities”.

The online auction of sporting memorabilia seized from bankrupt tennis star Boris Becker has been postponed. It follows Becker’s claim of diplomatic immunity as a sports attaché for an African state.

A vast collection of ivories from The Sir Victor Sassoon Chinese Ivories Trust will be going on display at the British Museum after it acquired the collection earlier this year.

Another substantial price for a bronze by the current hot favourite animalier sculptor, Rembrandt Bugatti (1884-1916), has emerged at the Drouot auction centre in Paris.

Christie’s is tweaking the way it offers 19th century European art in New York.

Church Street traders have two reasons to celebrate after the successful launch of Middle Eastern-focused AlFayez in Alfies Antique Market and the second edition of its Sunday street market event 'Antiques Anonymous'.

A fashion house founder's personal desk, a 16th century astronomy book, a pair of Chippendale commodes and contemporary Asian art jewellery: all are on offer as Masterpiece London returns for its 9th edition.

A nude portrait by Lucian Freud (1922-2011) painted when he was 80-years-old sold for £19.7m at Sotheby’s latest Contemporary art sale in London.

Vintage transport posters including scenes of London Tramways are going on sale next month at the London office of Scottish auction house Lyon & Turnbull.

Ah, nostalgia. Hear the words ‘Russian’ and ‘spying’ these days and ‘Novichok’ and ‘Polonium’ will come to mind. Try looking back instead to the 1970s-80s with the help of a large collection of Soviet cameras coming up at auction.

A pocket watch worn by Lord Nelson during the Battle of Trafalgar and probably given to him after his triumph at the Battle of the Nile is to be offered at auction next month.

Pop star-turned-fashion designer Victoria Beckham is displaying 16 Old Master paintings at her Dover Street store in Mayfair as part of a tie-up with auction house Sotheby’s.

The 100th anniversary year of women winning the right to vote in Britain (for those over 30, owning property, or university educated, anyway) has encouraged a bumper crop of related items at auction.

French institutions exercised their right of pre-emption on a number of occasions as the gargantuan disposal of the Aristophil collections of historic manuscripts began last week.

What’s a 10 hour taxi ride to a man who thinks he’s found a Ming dish? Why was the tragic marble visage of Queen Victoria worth more than £1m to the Fitzwilliam Museum? How to get the Antique Scientific Instrument Fair back on track? Trade members mull over these questions and more in our quotes of the week.

The postcard message reads: “I wish you were here, it is a lovely boat & it would do you good. Am just going on deck.” Actually, this wouldn’t have done much good at all: the boat in question was the Titanic.