Dealers

Dealers come in all shapes and forms, from small sole-traders to powerhouse galleries. Both play an integral role in the art and antiques market.

They often specialise in a given fields such as jewellery, ceramics, paintings, Asian art or coins but there are also plenty of general dealers operating across different categories.

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Hovercraft inventor Cockerell was also a collector

24 July 2023

Among the sales at 'An Eye into the Ancient Past', the collaborative exhibition from Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch and Claire Brown Art, was this attic black-figure amphora, dated to 500BC.

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A sip that gave magical power

24 July 2023

This form of drinking vessel, with handles and lobed edges to the top of the bowl, would have been passed around the table.

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Go deep into American art

24 July 2023

African-American artists and makers from the Deep South of the US are the focus for The Gallery of Everything’s summer show.

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The web shop window: 19th century French cocktail cabinet

24 July 2023

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

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5 Questions with Carolina Valdés Vignoli

24 July 2023

Carolina Valdés Vignoli of Carol Tresor concentrates on collectors’ pieces of mineralogical interest and shipwreck pottery. She is preparing an exhibition of minerals in September at the LAPADA fair in Mayfair.

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Plea to help locate stolen antique jewellery

20 July 2023

Two antique jewellery dealers are calling on the trade to help locate around £50,000 worth of jewellery that has been stolen in London.

Moretti Fine Art

New galleries, promotions and hires – the latest round up across the world of art and antiques

19 July 2023

A Paris gallery for Moretti Fine Art and new appointments at auction houses are among the latest ‘Movers and Shakers’ news.

Jonathan Carter.

Tributes paid to clock dealer and author Jonathan Carter

17 July 2023

Horology expert Jonathan Carter of the Carter Marsh dealership in Winchester has died.

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Howzat: British Library nets rare cricket book from dealer

17 July 2023

An early book on cricket from the library of commentator John Arlott has been acquired for the British Library from London dealership Peter Harrington.

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Very early printed work to be found down south

17 July 2023

'Antipodum, nobis, incognita': how a great southern land is labelled (“the Antipodes unknown to us”) in one of the first mentions in print.

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Game on for LAPADA partnership

17 July 2023

'The Farm, Isle of Skye', a 1973 watercolour and pencil on paper by John Nash (1893-1977) is among the highlights at LAPADA’s Pavilion at The Game Fair.

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Art Deco: Cocktails shake up the Jazz Age

17 July 2023

Partying through Prohibition, cocktail shakers sum up the spirit of Art Deco

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The web shop window: French mantle clock at Patrick Moorhead

17 July 2023

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

Fresh shoots grow in Stoneleigh

17 July 2023

New fair is set to use Midlands agricultural exhibition centre venue that will be familiar to many visitors

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5 Questions with jewellery and art dealer David Horton

17 July 2023

David Horton specialises in fine jewellery and British and international art from the 19th to the 20th century.

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French fair benefits from Brexit effect

17 July 2023

Most of the exhibitors at the spring edition of the biannual antiques fair held in the enchanting antiques-laden Provençal town of Isle-sur-la-Sorgue come from the south of France with a couple from Italy and Belgium.

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Lachenal carries on family design tradition

17 July 2023

London-based French antiques dealer Dorian Caffot de Fawes offers furniture, pictures and other objects from 1920-70.

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Obituary: clock dealer Jonathan Carter (1964-2023)

17 July 2023

From clothing career to clock dealer brilliance, Jonathan Carter specialised in the golden age of English clockmaking and set up the leading firm Carter-Marsh

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Deco style starts to make an impact

17 July 2023

Janice Kehoe of Solo Antiques specialises in Art Nouveau and Art Deco sculpture and glass as well as Arts & Crafts pieces.

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Impressive Chiparus figure with palm and arms aloft

17 July 2023

Femme à la Palme, c.1925, by Demetre Chiparus (1886-1947), the Romanian Art Deco sculptor, is an imposing example of his distinct style.

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