Auctioneers

Large urban or coastal scenes in the manner of LS Lowry were the stock-in-trade of Brian ‘Braaq’ Shields (1951-97).

The art of the Samurai comes to Essex firm Sworders on November 2.

This halfpenny featuring a ‘wild man’s head’ from northern Japan actually promotes a rather less fiercesome individual: Richard Summer, a perfumer and dealer in curiosities in Cavendish Street, London.

Carvings of animals by a former Fabergé carver are to be auctioned at Bamfords next month.

This 18th century Korean eight-panel screen depicts a subject borrowed from Ming prototypes: a banquet honouring the famed Tang dynasty general Guo Ziyi.

Kinghams (25% buyer’s premium) had held its inaugural Silver & Objects of Vertu sale on September 8.

The highest prices at auction for the Camden Town Group artist Charles Ginner (1878-1952) have all come for oil paintings but his precise, lucid style very much leant itself to the medium of watercolour.

Sotheby’s Important Chinese Art sale on November 1 includes the collection of Dr Kenneth Lawley (1937-2023), a longtime member of the Oriental Ceramic Society.

Duke’s Asian Art sale in Dorchester on November 29 features works from the family of the late John Walden, an active member of the Oriental Ceramic Society from the 1950s.

The first stand-alone Chinese and Japanese Works of Art sale at Olympia Auctions in London on November 8 includes this pair of Yongzheng period famille-rose fishbowls on European giltwood stands estimated at £40,000-60,000.

This kitschy Beatles table lamp discovered in a house clearance sold for an impressive £950 (estimate £100-150) on September 14.

Despite the proliferation of pottery horse sculptures from the Tang period, they were (by imperial edict) reserved for the aristocratic class.

Bonhams’ general Asian art sale in Knightsbridge on October 30 includes this late 18th century hardstone, mother-of-pearl and lacquer table screen.

This pair of yellow ground and green enamelled ‘dragon’ bowls have Qianlong six-character marks and are of the period.

Agatha Christie and Evelyn Waugh records beaten as collection of a Rolling Stone comes to auction

The Antiquities Dealers’ Association (ADA) has spoken out against claims made by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office and Homeland Security Investigations.

The latest Frieze week auctions in London generated a markedly lower total than the equivalent series last year.

The November 6-7 Asian Art sale at Chiswick Auctions includes this Song dynasty ding ware pottery figure of Shou Loa, god of longevity.

This autumn, as he refines his collecting impulses, Anthony Lovett is selling pieces from his collection of Kangxi porcelain

This Jin dynasty Cizhou-type double gourd vase comes for sale at Mallams in Cheltenham on November 8 with an estimate of £2000-3000.