2023

With estimates from £800, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week.

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of a cache of French art glass discovered as part of a contents removal.

A pair of mid-19th century Cantonese porcelain vases that featured on the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow, not once but twice, were auctioned at Fellows.

ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes a Lomonosov Porcelain Factory vase from 1929 that made over 35 times estimate in Buckinghamshire.

A new valuation and consultancy firm, a new auction house and a new head of luxury at Sotheby’s are among the latest updates across the art and antiques sector.

A chandelier made in the 1940s for the offices of cultural magazine Horizon, and later purchased by artist John Craxton, sold for a hammer price of £2.4m at Christie’s.

Traders at London’s historic Camden Passage antiques market have been blighted by roadworks for a new traffic system.

With estimates from £300, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week.

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of a group of Lovejoy-related items coming for sale at Suffolk saleroom Mander Auctioneers.

The rugby jersey worn by Sir Gareth Edwards when he scored what is generally considered the game’s greatest ever try set an auction record when it was knocked down at £240,000 today.

ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes a 17th century gold signet ring that more than doubled its estimate in Essex.

Sir Peter Paul Rubens’ 'Portrait of a Man as the God Mars', once the most expensive work by the artist ever sold at auction, is to be offered at a Sotheby's Modern art sale.

The government is updating the Treasure Act so that important finds that are not part of the current legal definition can be more easily bought by museums.

The Met police and Sloane Street Auctions are appealing for help to recover three pictures taken from a viewing in Belgravia.

With estimates from £800, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week.

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of an engaging portrait of a young boy that was bought by Rupert Maas at a regional auction being restored and fully attributed to Harold Knight (1874-1961).

ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes a Spode cup and saucer with a Titanic connection that made six times estimate at Richard Winterton.

A Kent saleroom for Hansons and a new face at Noonans are among the latest recruitment and expansion news across the art and antiques sector.

The Open Art Fair (TOAF) has been scrapped for this year, the latest in a string of fair cancellations across the market.

The Getty Museum has agreed to acquire an ancient Roman marble bust which was sold at auction in London.