Wotton Auction Rooms
Cotswold auctioneers Wotton Auction Rooms are based in Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire. The firm dates back to the mid 19th century.
They hold regular specialist sales of antiques, fine art and collectables offering items including ceramics, jewellery, clocks & watches, silver, pictures and furniture. They also offer probate and insurance services.
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Pick of the week: Raise two pints to Guernsey mug at auction
08 January 2024The vast majority of Georgian-era Channel Islands silver baluster mugs are of a pint or half-pint capacity.
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New St James’s dealer and a returning face to a Gloucestershire auction house are among the latest Movers & Shakers
26 September 2023A round up of moves and hires across the art and antiques sector.
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Trinder rejoins auction house where he started, now as joint partner
25 September 2023Wotton Auction Rooms has a new ownership structure as Joseph Trinder re-joins the business.
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A rural Essex man who loved the city
08 May 2023'Cattle Market, Braintree' from 1937 is a trademark Edward Bawden image. But it is also the artist’s only pre-war editioned print.
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Single-owner collection takes Root in Bath instead of clinging on to London hotbed
26 September 2022Does the Contemporary art auction market need levelling up?
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Knife birds bronze takes McCrum a cut above in the market
10 January 2022Modern British sculptures were the main attraction at Wotton Auction Rooms’ (18% buyer’s premium) recent sale at Stouts Hill Manor.
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Frink tribute emerges from a bungalow
04 October 2021John Rolfe from Wotton Auction Rooms had been asked to undertake a valuation for probate in a bungalow near Salisbury when he made an intriguing discovery.
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Curzon and Campbell families etched in stone
20 September 2021A recent sale at Wotton Auction Rooms (21.6% buyer’s premium) in Wotton-Under-Edge included this set of three yellow metal fobs set with carnelian intaglios.
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Ramsay resemblance draws in the bidders
26 July 2021Found in the garden room of a local property among a stack of other pictures, this unsigned oil on canvas had a distinct resemblance to portraits by Allan Ramsay (1713-84).
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Samplers thread their way from orphanage to auction
17 August 2020Estimated at just £30-50, a late 19th century sampler sold via thesaleroom.com for £1850 at Wotton Auction Rooms (18% buyer’s premium) in Gloucestershire. A clue to the appeal is the inscription 'M Mountain, 5 Orphan House, Ashley Down, Bristol, 1879'.
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Early lantern clock shines through the dust to spark saleroom excitement
09 March 2020Battered and dust-engrained when found in a basement during a Lake District house clearance, an early unsigned brass lantern clock generated great excitement at Penrith Farmers’ & Kidd’s (18% buyer’s premium).
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Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge raises £51,000 at Gloucestershire auction
05 August 2019It was a case of sitter rather than artist determining the value of an otherwise unassuming portrait that came up at Wotton Auction Rooms’ latest sale.
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Five lots to watch at auction this week including a Georgian bookcase, Victorian brooch and a portrait of a poet
22 July 2019With estimates from £200-8000, here are five previews from upcoming sales this week.
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Gem from Old Sodbury
21 January 2019The traditionally ‘dead’ period between Christmas and New Year was enlivened by the December 28 sale at Wotton Auction Rooms (17.5% buyer’s premium) in Gloucestershire – to the extent that more than 20,000 people suffering withdrawal symptoms worldwide viewed it online and 1360 of them registered to bid.
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Beer’s racing pigeons take flight
07 January 2019Portraits of prize-winning racing pigeons are the latest must-haves in decorative collecting circles, judging by a recent spate of high prices in the regions.
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Victorian table salts sell at Gloucestershire auction
27 November 2017A fine pair of Victorian figural table salts in the form of sea maidens on the back of dolphins sold for £4900 (estimate £1500-2000) at Wootton Auction Rooms in Gloucestershire on October 17. Weighing 33oz, they carry marks for John Wilmin Figg, London 1841.
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Nothing like a dame for provenance - ballerina after Barre sells in Gloucestershire
12 June 2017The appeal of this 16in (40.5cm) tall French silvered bronze of a ballerina offered at Wotton Auction Rooms (21% buyer’s premium) on May 23, undoubtedly owed much of its success to its provenance.
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Trinder leaves Wotton Auction Rooms to join Dawson’s
18 February 2017Joe Trinder is leaving Wotton Auction Rooms, were he is auctioneer, valuer and cataloguer, to join start-up saleroom Dawson’s.
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NAVA elect youngest ever president
09 August 2016Joseph Trinder, 23, has been elected president of The National Association of Valuers and Auctioneers (NAVA) for 2016-17, the youngest member to hold the position in the association’s history.
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August Bohm goblet sells at £64,000 in the Cotswolds
07 April 2008A companion work to an August Bohm masterpiece has bought a house record to Gloucestershire firm Wotton Auction Rooms.
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