Dreweatts

The market has certainly been challenging but recent results allied with metal prices give encouraging grounds for optimism

Dreweatts’ (26/25% buyer’s premium) Fine Jewellery, Silver, Watches and Objects of Vertu sale of June 18 offered only 35 lots of silver but all were good quality and many rare in form.

This rare Chelsea porcelain leaf-moulded teapot and cover came between a goat-and-bee jug and a crayfish salt.

Dreweatts’ (26/25/20/12.5% buyer’s premium) single-owner dispersal of items from Bussock Wood on June 4 included significant works from the Modern British canon.

The Dreweatts (26% buyer’s premium) sale on June 18 included two Cartier brooches commissioned by Sir Stephen Courtauld to designs inspired by Eltham Palace.

Serpenti jewels, which followed the launch of Bulgari’s signature gold Tubogas bracelets in the late 1940s, were featured in Vogue and other fashion magazines on countless occasions in the Sixties.

Two days needed to disperse items collected over generations thanks to biscuit production success

Count Manfredi Della Gherardesca 's collection offers old and new mix of more than 400 varied lots

Dreweatts and Christie’s will jointly sell the Stanley Goldfein collection of ceramics across two sales this year.

Roseberys and Dreweatts both posted two six-figure prices during the spring round of UK regional Asian art sales.

Dawsons Auctioneers has appointed Jonathan Pratt as managing director.

Marion Richardson (1892-1946), a pioneer of the child art movement, was described as ‘one of the most influential art innovators of our time’.

The Scottish sculptor Amelia Robertson Hill (1821-1904) was surrounded by artistic family members.

Oil on canvas showing favoured subject of the artist takes top spot so far in UK sales outside London

Artist’s record broken by trademark highly detailed study of natural objects painted in tempera