1) Trade unaware as new furniture fire safety rules are mooted
UK government proposals to alter regulations for post-1950 upholstered furniture have caught the art and antiques trade unaware.
2) New joiners and relocations – a round up of Movers and Shakers
The latest jobs news including Titanic-specialist Henry Aldridge and Son hiring Flog It! presenter Paul Martin as head of valuations.
3) Louvre buys medieval panel discovered in a French kitchen
A medieval panel discovered above a stove in a kitchen in France has been bought by The Louvre Museum.
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La Dérision du Christ by by Italian artist Cenni di Pepo (known as Cimabue) (c.1240-1302). © Musée du Louvre, Hervé Lewandowski.
4) ‘Circle of JMW Turner’ watercolour stars in our pick of five auction highlights
ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes a watercolour of steamboats on the Rhine that made over 60 times estimate in Derby.
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Catalogued as ‘circle of JMW Turner’, this watercolour titled Sunrise on the Rhine sold for £19,000 at Bamfords.
5) Pewter pleases for a second time
A Suffolk sale included a further group of lots from the collection of Tony Chapman (1943-2022), a former president of The Pewter Society.
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