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The late Jean Louis Chameroy (1946-2020) was born in the city of Troyes in France but moved to the London in 1960s.

UK government proposals to alter regulations for post-1950 upholstered furniture have caught the art and antiques trade unaware.

Top prices set for majolica by the French Massier factory at auction in Belgium

The Dutch diplomat, musician, writer and sinologist Robert Hans van Gulik (1910-67), also known as Gao Luopei, was a great admirer of traditional Chinese literati culture.

A good crop of top-end Impressionist and Modern pictures lifted the latest flagship series of auctions in New York.

South-west England focused auction house Greenslade Taylor Hunt is leaving its saleroom in Taunton and relocating to an auction centre near Bridgewater.

The Penguin Bookshelf was a collaboration between Penguin Books and the London furniture-maker Beaver and Tapley. The design was debuted to retailers at the 1955 Furniture Exhibition when something close to 3000 orders were placed.

The Tarleton helmet was named after the dashing but ruthless Sir Banastre Tarleton (1754-1833), who commanded the British Legion during the American War of Independence.

Stellar English, Indian and Turkish pieces are promised at Olympia Auctions on December 6 in west London.

The late 19th century Japanese artist Keika Hasegawa remains something of an enigma.

A childhood in Wiltshire partly spent picking up ammunition lying around as a result of the Allied preparations for D-Day helped to spark Alexander Jeremy Peckover Penrose’s (known as Jerry) interest in firearms.

A £2m collection of English country house furnishings from Ombersley Court, a Grade I-listed country house near Droitwich Spa, Worcestershire, comes for sale at Christie’s this month.

Stowmarket firm Bishop & Miller holds a timed online sale of 104 picture frames that ends on November 19.

On November 29 Christie’s will offer Ombersley Court: The Collection of Lord and Lady Sandys – a historic collection of an English aristocratic family spanning five centuries.

Pictured here are the plates from a 12th or 13th century klivanion (Byzantine armour).

More items from the collection of Sir Rod Stewart are coming up for sale at Sworders this year.

This Russian 1881/1908 pattern dragoon officer’s shaska is estimated at £2600-3200 among a wide array of militaria on offer at Lawrences of Crewkerne on November 22.

Chairs and sofas by Howard & Sons are a pricey niche market these days, largely immune to the varying fortunes of the wider market for Victorian and Edwardian furniture.