1) Wall mural from a Surrey cottage featured on BBC’s Fake or Fortune? comes to auction in Cornwall
A mural painted on a wall inside a Surrey cottage which starred in an episode of BBC’s 'Fake or Fortune?' is to be offered with a £40,000-80,000 estimate.
Philip Mould and Fiona Bruce at Red Stream Cottage with the wall painting. Image: BBC Studios Productions.
2) New benchmark for tribal art as Fang head makes €12.6m at Christie’s
A new record for African or Oceanic tribal art was set at Christie’s in Paris as part of the sale of the remarkable Barbier-Mueller collection.
A new record for African and Oceanic tribal art was set by Christie’s in Paris when this Fang reliquary head sold for €12.6m (£10.8m) at Christie’s in Paris.
3) Etna charger erupts at Clarice Cliff auction
Last sold in 1994, a well-known Newport Pottery promotional piece emerged in Stourbridge and brought the highest bid at auction for Clarice Cliff for some years.
Clarice Cliff Applique Etna pattern charger sold for £18,500 at Fieldings.
4) ‘A testament to elegance’: Bach manuscript goes to Bodleian in lieu of inheritance tax
A rare autograph manuscript by composer Johann Sebastian Bach has been acquired by the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries.
Johann Sebastian Bach’s autograph manuscript for the cantata for Ascension Day: Auf Christ Himmelfahrt Allein which has been acquired by the Bodleian Libraries.
5) ‘Beechey’ portrait of an Indian sitter, the mysterious Moonshee, is ready for research
A mixture of leading artist, intriguing subject, ‘prominent’ background and perhaps a bit of speculation helped propel a portrait of an Indian figure to 36 times the top estimate.
A portrait inscribed W Beechey London 1786 that sold for £12,000 at Hannams.
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