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The primary contents of North Mymms Park in Hertfordshire – including an important collection of European tapestries – provided Sworders with its best-ever sale last week.

The online art market’s growth is slowing but the use of mobile phones to buy art continues to increase.

A New York law banning the sale of antique ivory has been challenged in court by two leading US antiques dealers associations.

Avon and Somerset police are appealing for information after a raid on the Museum of East Asian Art in Bath.

Brought into a free valuation day held at Bishop’s Cleve, near Cheltenham, a copy of Eric Ravilious’ High Street sold on March 27 at what would appear to be a record sum in a Derbyshire sale.

Betty Mendes, who has died peacefully aged 90, was one of the leading lights in the field of antique lace and textiles.

In the early 1920s, the artist Dora Carrington (1893-1932) began creating a series of foil glass paintings.

Sold for $300,000 (£214,185) apiece in a recent New York sale were three very well-known works from the worlds of cartography and natural history.

In this second part of ATG’s review of the various events held during Paris drawings week, we turn the spotlight onto one particular medium: the pastel portrait.

When, where, how – ie when was it made? Where was it made? How was it made? And how much is it worth? These are the four fundamental questions which every reputable antique dealer has to ask when he/she looks at an object.