Auctions

Group of works from the late US dealer’s collection demonstrates his wide range of interests.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.

The V&A loses out in £23,000 bidding battle for Prince Albert’s drawings of the diamond and sapphire coronet he designed for Queen Victoria.

This pair of William III silver candlesticks came for sale at Potteries Auctions (20% buyer’s premium).

Leonardo Da Vinci’s work has long held a fascination, as a near-contemporaneous copy confirms

Given their relatively small metal content, many silver-mounted ‘tigerware’ beer jugs survived the great bullion melting of the English Civil War, making them perhaps the most recognised example of late 16th century silver today.

The auction at toy specialist C&T (22% buyer’s premium) in Kenardington, Kent, on November 3 included this very rare pair of doll’s shoes dated to c.1700.

Bid to to £400 in an October 6 sale held by Halls (20/12% buyers premium) of Shrewsbury was a simple, partly printed receipt in the sum of three guineas with autograph additions and signature that date it to April 24, 1806.

On December 2 Australian auction firm Shapiro will be offering the collection of Spode blue and white earthenwares assembled over the past 25 years by Russell Brooks. The majority were purchased in first 15 years mainly in England but also in Australia.

Many sales in late November and early December are assembled with presents in mind and silver and jewellery are much to the fore.

Most angles on the collecting spectrum were covered in Bamfords’ (24.75% buyer’s premium) three-day autumnal catalogue.

Few painters on the Danish art scene in the late 19th century felt a close affinity with contemporary English art. Symbolist painter Agnes Slott-Møller (1862-1937) was among the exceptions.

Records were set for studio pottery when the collection of the late New York art dealer Dr John P Driscoll was sold last week.

“From then on, nothing went right. My carpet designs were rejected and my textiles were not required."

A rare Fabergé jade carving of a Tyrannosaurus Rex emerged for sale at a US regional auction house to sell for $65,000 (£50,000).

Guaranteed to attract attention at science and technical antiques specialist Auction Team Breker on November 6 was this remarkable Ericsson telephone.

Anglo-Chinese huanghuali bureau cabinet was spotted just down the road from saleroom

Pictured here are two early English pottery tankards – both of them documentary pieces.