Chiswick Auctions
Chiswick Auctions is a West London auction house with 20 specialist departments including fine art, furniture, jewellery, silver, wine, arms and armour, books and fashion. It holds regular specialist sales as well as a monthly design and interiors sales.
The firm is jointly run by William Rouse and Leigh Osborne. In 2017, Chiswick Auctions announced plans to open a South Kensington showroom manned by a group of former Christie’s staff.
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In the frame: Collectors and film prop buyers are among those boosting the market for antique picture frames
26 September 2022Usually overshadowed by the art that lies within, it is often forgotten that frames themselves can be a fundamental part of the overall value.
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Riley and Lowry prints offered at Chiswick Auctions
12 September 2022Among the works on offer at Chiswick Auctions’ Modern & Contemporary Prints and Multiples sale on October 5 is a Bridget Riley (b.1931) screenprint in colours on wove sheet.
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Pick of the week: Sketchbook strikes saleroom gold
22 August 2022A previously unknown sketchbook of watercolours and drawings relating to the California Gold Rush took £16,000 (plus 25% buyer’s premium) at Chiswick Auctions.
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Movers and shakers including the shortest retirement in the art and antiques sector
04 August 2022Among the latest appointments is a new face at Bonhams Knightsbridge
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Specialist takes a shine to Persian silver
25 July 2022With 207 pieces of silver from the Levant and all points East to China on offer at Chiswick Auctions (25% buyer’s premium), the stand-out pieces were the work of Iranian smiths.
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'Kitchen' vase flies to £1.2m at Dreweatts and leads UK Asian art sales
23 May 2022A £1.2m house record at Dreweatts was the highlight of the recent round of UK Asian art sales.
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Potter proof set uncovered
23 May 2022A London saleroom offered what was billed as the only “known” surviving set of uncorrected galley proofs for Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stone.
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Front cover lot reappears at Chiswick Auctions
02 May 2022Chiswick Auctions holds three sales on May 16-17: Asian Art Part I and Part II and a catalogue titled The Chinese Art of Monochrome.
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Julia Margaret Cameron – known and unknown images on offer
18 April 2022The 19th & 20th Century Photography sale at Dominic Winter on May 18 includes several works by Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-79).
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Behind the lens of Eugène Cuvelier
18 April 2022The photographica department at Chiswick Auctions will be taking over the firm’s South Kensington gallery for the duration of May when highlights from the 19th & 20th Century Photography sale on May 24 will be on view.
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Warwick vase cast became prize presented by Victoria
28 March 2022Estimated at £20,000-30,000, this cast of the Warwick vase by John Samuel Hunt, London 1845, sold for £32,000.
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Boxer Rebellion in stereo makes 12-times estimate at Chiswick Auctions
21 March 2022The latest Photographica sale at Chiswick Auctions (25/12% buyer’s premium) included this rare set of 'China Through the Stereoscope'.
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Knockout £50,000 for Casino Royale first
07 February 2022When Ian Fleming sent an initial typescript of his first James Bond book Casino Royale to his good friend Paul Gallico asking if it was publishable, he got the reply “the book is a knockout!”.
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Indian & Islamic garments prove to be auction talismans
17 January 2022Indian talismanic shirts or Qur’an jama were believed to carry protective powers.
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Soldier's scroll paintings turn out to be lucrative birthday presents
17 January 2022Leading a recent Woolley & Wallis' (25/12% buyer’s premium) sale in Salisbury were two scroll paintings by well-known 20th century Chinese artists that came by descent from Field Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell (1883-1950).
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Coconut cup brings out the exotic side of Hull
22 November 2021This Charles II silver mounted coconut cup is particularly rare on account of its marks for the Hull silversmith Edward Mangie (1634-85).
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Pleasing result of international relations
15 November 2021First sale put together by art world academic attracts encouraging overseas response
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Pick of the week: Maltese silver survivors on way home
01 November 2021Maltese silver pieces auctioned in the UK return to the Mediterranean island.
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Not one but two sales in west London
18 October 2021Chiswick Auctions will hold two dedicated sales for the November season.
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