Auctions

Forgotten today, a collection sold in Somerset remembers a multi-talented showman and author

A strong performer in the Anthony du Boulay (1929-2022) sale at Duke’s (25% buyer’s premium) in Dorchester was this 10in (24.5cm) enamelled chinoisierie milchglas vase.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions

A six-figure sum for Belgian Symbolist Fernand Khnopff was the top lot of Christie’s drawing-focused sale.

Among the highlights of Sworders’ (25% buyer’s premium) latest Fine Interiors sale was a remarkable anthropomorphic funerary urn from Ecuador.

Simple Salford street scene dating from year after he left art school is now at £70,000 hammer price level

A spate of businesses taking stock and personal collections to the saleroom reflects wider changes in the market

ATG’s pick of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com, featuring both the highest prices over-estimate and the top prices paid online.

The sale held by Catherine Southon at the Farleigh Golf Club in Surrey on April 26-27 includes a single-owner collection of 18th century drinking glasses.

A high price for a Victorian work sold outside London came at Tennants’ (22% buyer’s premium) latest British, European and Sporting Pictures sale.

While most dealerships look to existing auction houses to sell off excess stock, some dealers have brought the practice in house.

The Drouot auction centre was also celebrating drawing week with no shortage of drawings and works on paper on offer.

The latest dedicated sales held by one particular auction house show how the value of Lalique glass – the epitome of inter-war glamour – is determined by its colour

Also during drawing week, and on the same day and just around the corner from Christie’s, Artcurial held a related art auction.

Bay Malton and Gimcrack are the two most famous flat-racing horses of the 1760s.

Paris works on paper events draw a line under Covid as attendance figures bounce back

Enamelled imperial eagle tankards or 'reichsadlerhumpen' – large three or four-litre glass drinking vessels enamelled with the 56 coats of arms and the quaternion eagle of the Holy Roman Empire – were popular from the 16th to the late 18th century.

‘The Land We Live In’ is a toast that appears on a number of Irish decanters made in Cork and Waterford.

The ideas of ‘liberty’ as a cause and a concept were not confined to the coffee shops of Boston and Philadelphia.

Our selection of 13 upcoming lots at UK and Irish auctions.