Auctioneers

I am writing to share my recent experience attempting to bid in an auction. I completed the online registration and received an email from the auctioneer requesting additional verification (ID & utility bill), fair enough, and also a deposit of several thousand pounds.

Kashmir sapphires have acquired a near-legendary status, due to their lustrous cornflower colour, soft velvety texture and extreme rarity.

This gothic revival gold and enamel 'artist's jewel' made by the Birmingham metalworkers Hardman and Co is very similar to one given by architect Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-52) to his third wife Jane Knill.

Chiswick Auctions’ most successful silver sale to date on October 11 included a George II teapot of American colonial interest.

The forthcoming sale of a collection of around 100 silver mustard pots in Newcastle highlights the connection between the northeast and the rise of the commercial trade in English mustard

This rare Rolex reference 6238 was one made for the Japanese market in 1965.

Raymond Templier (1891-1968) came from a traditional Parisian jewellery family but became one of a small group of designers dubbed ‘bijoutiers-artistes’ or artist jewellers.

Lyon & Turnbull’s (26/25/20% buyer's premium) Lalique sale in London included six of the rare pieces made using the cire perdue technique.

The artist Samuel Fulton (1855-1941) painted portraits of people and horses but by far his favourite subject was dogs.

Signed jewels by contemporary and historic makers come to auction as part of Elmwood’s first ‘Winter Luxury Week’.

Atmospheric views of London were the stock-in-trade of George Hyde Pownall (1866-1932).

A selection of antique and vintage jewels and watches on a £500 budget that are perfect for gift giving this season

This 18th century Korean eight-panel screen depicts a subject borrowed from Ming prototypes: a banquet honouring the famed Tang dynasty general Guo Ziyi.

UK government proposals to alter regulations for post-1950 upholstered furniture have caught the art and antiques trade unaware.

Top prices set for majolica by the French Massier factory at auction in Belgium

The Dutch diplomat, musician, writer and sinologist Robert Hans van Gulik (1910-67), also known as Gao Luopei, was a great admirer of traditional Chinese literati culture.

A good crop of top-end Impressionist and Modern pictures lifted the latest flagship series of auctions in New York.

South-west England focused auction house Greenslade Taylor Hunt is leaving its saleroom in Taunton and relocating to an auction centre near Bridgewater.