Bishop & Miller

The much-anticipated auction of the personal collection of Tobias Jellinek (1934-2023) was held on the afternoon of June 19 at Bishop & Miller (25% buyer’s premium) in East Anglia.

The survival rate for 16th century and earlier furniture is much lower than that of 17th century examples.

This William III bronze wool weight cast with the royal arms is more than twice the size of most, weighing in at 14lb.

Furniture and objects associated with a rustic or farmhouse aesthetic have gained popularity in recent decades.

Carved wooden sculptural fragments are a market strength.

The final tranche of items from the Tony Chapman collection of pewter offered at Bishop & Miller of Stowmarket on June 19 included this capacious Victorian lidded jug once owned by Charles Dickens (1812-70).

The latest edition of The Oak Interior auction held by Bishop & Miller (25% buyer’s premium) in Stowmarket on February 28-29 majored heavily on metalwork.

Watches with provenance will naturally command a premium.

Stowmarket firm Bishop & Miller holds a timed online sale of 104 picture frames that ends on November 19.

Small sky study sets a new high for works by the artist who was a great observer of nature

Suffolk sale includes further selection from Chapman collection – but sculpture brings big surprise

Around 20 lots of delftware, mostly plates, tiles and chargers with modest estimates, featured in the sale of the Diana Steel collection.

James Clowes (c.1643-1705), who was born in Astbury, Cheshire, became a Free Brother of The Clockmakers Company in 1671 – the same year as Thomas Tompion, Joseph Knibb, Daniel Quare and Joseph Windmills. He worked first in St Giles in the Fields and then at Saint Ann’s Blackfriars.

A single-owner sale from the late Norfolk glass collector and dealer Brian Watson is coming to Bishop & Miller on September 27.

An English covered goblet made in 1820 to commemorate the first voyage of the ship Woodford is on offer at Bishop & Miller in Glandford, Norfolk

Is Mason’s ironstone going through a collecting Renaissance? Well, perhaps

Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas were probably members. So too Charles Robert Ashbee.

The Oak Interior sale at Bishop & Miller in Stowmarket on June 1-2 includes this ‘important and exceptional’ Edward IV bronze measure.