Auctions

Cheffins of Cambridge is offering a marble bust of Lord Nelson, after Franz Thaller (1759-1817) and Matthias Ranson (fl. c.1800).

Artemis Gallery’s (21.5% buyer’s premium) September 22 sale in Louisville, Colorado, included a set of finely preserved ancient Egyptian sculptor’s tools.

It is a big move for auctioneer Charles Miller. Well, big in terms of his new premises being larger and taller. Not so big in terms of huge distance, however.

Only 155 Arctic Medals 1875-76 were issued, with 59 of those being to HMS Discovery.

Follow-up edition of a classic avian work was more or less a new publication thanks to extra research

Charity donation from the collection of the man who brought Woolworths to the UK includes rare Tiffany vases.

Among recent paratrooper items that impressed at auction, this Polish badge with combat wreath doubled the top estimate at Bosleys to take £4000 from a UK online private buyer.

The front page of ATG No 2558 featured a Second World War nurse’s cape decorated with an array of cloth regimental badges that sold at Essex auction house Sworders in August last year.

Airborne forces memorabilia is usually a winner at auction but especially when it’s an early example

This drawing by Victorian artist Simeon Solomon (1840-1905) is titled 'Simeon Solomon’s and Henry Holiday’s Artistic Heroes'.

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 auction record for a pair of chairs was broken twice as part of Christie’s Rothschild family auction series in New York.

Futurist and Cubist feline design figures higly in an extensive single-owner collection of ceramics

Two watercolours by Frank Algernon Stewart (1877-1945) were among the best performers in a collection of works amassed by two former gallery owners.

Our selection of lots from 11 upcoming auctions

Old Master drawings inscribed for Flemish artist Hans Bols blow away the estimates in Chartres

This halfpenny featuring a ‘wild man’s head’ from northern Japan actually promotes a rather less fiercesome individual: Richard Summer, a perfumer and dealer in curiosities in Cavendish Street, London.

The latest Frieze week auctions in London generated a markedly lower total than the equivalent series last year.

This pair of kesi chair covers woven with front-facing dragons against an apricot ground, date from the late Ming or early Qing dynasty period.