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This 17th century floral still-life features in the sale of Old Master paintings and drawings to be held by Tajan on June 21.

Hermann Historica’s (25% buyer’s premium inc VAT) huge series of sales in Munich included what it billed as ‘a key document from German history’.

De Baecque & Associés will be selling this monumental astronomical clock standing 9ft 11in (3m) high on June 30.

This 18ct gold ring demonstrating French portrait photographer René Dagron’s (1819-1900) invention of microphotography quadrupled its estimate at Bonhams in Paris.

Galerie Mingei, based on the rue Visconti in the Saint Germain des Prés area, specialises in antique and contemporary Japanese decorative arts.

London dealer Susan Ollemans Oriental Art specialises in Asian jewellery.

The Galerie JM Béalu et Fils will be showing a selection of Chinese ceramics in its left bank rue de Bac gallery.

Christie’s holds its live summer Asian Art auction in Paris on June 14 with an online sale running from June 6-20.

Sotheby’s Asian Art sale in Paris on June 15 will include some rare jades with notable provenances.

Tajan's Asian Art auction on June 12 will include this Tianquiping vase, a republic period piece bearing an apochryphal Qianlong mark to the base.

Charlotte Corday was the woman who assassinated the French Revolutionary journalist and politician Jean-Paul Marat.

Auction houses, galleries, museums and institutions prepare for sixth edition of Parisian events

The Stuttgart Rare Book Fair, Germany’s leading fair for the rare book and prints trade, is returning after the pandemic for an anniversary event from June 16-18.

One of the overseas dealers who will be showing at The Pagoda for Printemps Asiatique Paris is the UK dealer Runjeet Singh.

A Panticapaeum gold stater, struck in present day Crimea c.350-300BC, has regained the rank of the world’s most expensive classical coin.

Van Ham of Cologne is offering a work by the German Expressionist Otto Mueller on the occasion of its 500th sale: the painting Frau und Knabe (Woman and Boy) from 1922.

A previously undocumented painting, bought from an English dealer by a European collector in 1995, shines at Vienna sale.

Wooden examples of the art of netsuke are now the focus of collectors following ivory restrictions.

Like many of his colleagues, the Hungarian painter Mihály Munkácsy (1844-1900) visited the major art centres of his day, such as Munich and Düsseldorf, before finally settling in Paris in 1871.