Chiswick Auctions

A couple of works by leading names in the sector gave a boost to Chiswick Auctions’ (25% buyer’s premium) latest Modern British and Irish Art sale.

A c.1964 publicity photograph signed by all four members of The Beatles sold for £13,000 at Bristol auction house Auctioneum (21% buyer’s premium).

The earliest records of the silversmithing on the Tyne date from 1249.

One of the most eyecatching collections of Impressionist and Modern art sold at a provincial auction at the end of last year comprised 17 lots from the late Ralph Bateman.

Bidder in Massachusetts goes to £24,000 to secure an account of a 1764 trip along the eastern seaboard

Letters and books marking the deep relationship between author EM Forster and policeman Bob Buckingham and his family sold for £9000.

It was around 1860 that the trained artist François Willème (1830-1905) began to experiment with photography as a way to create sculpture.

Sixth instalment of single-owner collection on offer in west London features wonderful workshops

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

A collection of correspondence penned by leading figures of the 20th century to an Oxford academic raised more than £20,000 for charity at Chiswick Auctions (25% buyer’s premium) on October 10.

The November 6-7 Asian Art sale at Chiswick Auctions includes this Song dynasty ding ware pottery figure of Shou Loa, god of longevity.

Following examination by a committee of experts and testing at Goldsmiths Hall, an Elizabethan silver and porcelain goblet comes to auction.

In the wake of an auction record for an ‘aquarium’ lighter at Chiswick Auctions (25/12% buyer’s premium), six more of the classic Dunhill accessories lit up the saleroom.

Boy wizard Harry Potter was up against prize fighter Daniel Mendoza for the top spot at Chiswick Auctions (25% buyer’s premium).

Large group of pugilist-related works was collected over more than 50 years by London couple

Coastal scene formerly owned by collector in the diamond mining industry attracts considerable interest

While a few examples survive from the 17th and the very early 18th century, teacups and saucers are a rare form in Georgian silver.

An early version of virtual reality, the Victorian craze of stereoscopes is firmly in focus this summer