Woolley & Wallis
Salisbury-based auction house Woolley & Wallis is a leading UK provincial saleroom.
Founded in 1884, they now hold regular specialist sales in areas from Asian Art and Tribal Art to 20th Century Design, Jewellery, European Ceramics, Arms & Armour and Fine Art.
In 2016, they opened a London office in Mayfair.
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Renaissance ring joins Salisbury double act
12 November 2018Woolley & Wallis followed the Shannon collection with a mixed-owner sale on November 1. Together the auctions brought a premium-inclusive £2.1m.
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Five lots that caught bidders’ eyes this week including a Regency table, a Maltese silver bowl and a Beatles poster
09 November 2018ATG’s selection of hammer highlights that sold at auction in the last week include a Regency rosewood table and a Beatles poster from a Leeds Queen's Hall appearance.
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White gloves sale for Shannon jewels at at Woolley & Wallis
05 November 2018The white-glove sale of the Shannon collection of jewellery at Woolley & Wallis was topped at £22,000 (plus 25% buyer’s premium) by a gold bracelet by Omar Ramsden.
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Five lots to watch at auction this week (October 29-November 4, 2018) including a rare silver chocolate stirrer
29 October 2018From the first book ever written in the Antarctic to a silver chocolate stirrer, here are five previews from upcoming sales this week.
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Hammer highlights: five lots that caught bidders’ eyes including a rare example of automobilia
26 October 2018A Banksy print, a Suffragette medal and a rare piece of British automobilia are among ATG’s selection of highlights that sold at auctions this week.
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Single-owner sale of jewellery - including more than 100 Georg Jensen items - comes to auction
26 October 2018A major collection of late 19th and early 20th century jewellery amassed by a Buckinghamshire collector over half a century, comes to auction next week.
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Five unusual militaria lots coming up at auction
25 October 2018Focus on five militaria items ranging from a ship's bell marking a pioneering aircraft launch to a grasshopper brooch left as a memento for loved ones.
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Hammer highlights: five lots that caught bidders’ eyes including a Japanese sleeper and an Irish stag skull
19 October 2018Sleepers and stag skulls were among ATG’s selection of highlights that sold at auctions this week.
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Five auctions to watch this week (October 15-21 2018)
15 October 2018From an Armada table to a Titanic return poster, here are five previews from upcoming sales this week.
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An array of accessible antiquities
15 October 2018Headlines about antiquities today usually follow two paths: either highlighting the issue of looting or focusing on the huge sums treasures of the ancient world can command.
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Five Carlton Ware Art Deco designs to dazzle at auction
11 October 2018More than 50 lots of colourful Carlton Ware Art Deco pottery are up for sale in Salisbury next week.
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‘Chinese Mona Lisa’ comes to auction from Body Shop founder Dame Anita Roddick
08 October 2018Woolley & Wallis in Salisbury will sell an important oil by Chinese contemporary artist Yang Fei Yun (b.1954) next month. It comes for sale from the charity established by Body Shop founder Dame Anita Roddick (1942-2007).
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Studio pottery – UK regional salerooms are filling a market gap
08 October 2018If the work of the best modern and contemporary artists is typically confined to a small coterie of London auctioneers, then the same cannot be said of the best modern and contemporary ceramics.
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Salisbury saleroom becomes travel hub twice a year to cover tribal art market
08 October 2018The biannual world tour of tribal lands – Alaska to New Zealand via Arizona, Africa and Taiwan – organised by auctioneer Will Hobbs at Woolley & Wallis (25% buyer’s premium) offered a global view of what is an active, if often unpredictable, field.
Ivory ban law not expected until spring 2019
08 October 2018Collectors and sellers of antique ivory are being told that the ivory ban is unlikely to become law before spring 2019, a longer lead-time than originally thought.
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What to buy: Five auctions to watch this week (October 1-7 2018)
01 October 2018Among the plethora of auctions across the UK this week, here are five highlights from upcoming sales, including a Stuart Devlin candelabra at Catherine Southon.
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Self portrait by Lucia Casalini Torelli tops trio of female faces at £400,000 Salisbury sale
24 September 2018In the past, pictures by talented but obscure female artists were given short shrift on the secondary market. Now all that is changing.
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Taking a £3400 bite out of Victorian sentimentalism
03 September 2018Victoria, Princess Royal (1840-1901), shed her first baby tooth at the age of seven while the royal family was a guest of the Duke of Abercorn at Ardverikie, by Loch Laggan. Her father Prince Albert tugged the tooth free himself and had it set in gold and enamel as a brooch. The milk tooth formed the blossom of thistle.
Sale season opens in west London and Salisbury
03 September 2018Ahead of its season-opening September 18 jewellery sale, Chiswick Auctions invited Jessica Diamond, the suitably-named jewellery editor for 'Condé Nast Traveller', to pick her top 10 lots from the catalogue.
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Shannon collection of jewellery comes toWoolley & Wallis auction
13 August 2018A major collection of late 19th and early 20th century jewellery amassed by a Buckinghamshire collector over half a century will come to auction this autumn.
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