Auctions

Long before the days of photo-realism, artists created remarkably accurate depictions of their subject matter.

Rediscovery of overlooked female artists is a welcome reappraisal – and driving ever-higher prices

While its existence was known, the whereabouts was a mystery until a routine house valuation

When Ernest Shepard was first recommended to AA Milne in 1923, the author had originally deemed him unsuitable.

Heinrich von Brühl was without doubt the most prominent patron of the porcelain manufacture in Meissen.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions

Christie’s sale Charlie Watts: Gentleman, Collector, Rolling Stone combined stardust with an extraordinary library of modern first editions.

What has been billed by Phillips as ‘the most exceptional and significant group of works by Lucie Rie and Hans Coper to ever come to auction’ will be offered in London on November 1.

Following examination by a committee of experts and testing at Goldsmiths Hall, an Elizabethan silver and porcelain goblet comes to auction.

The sale at Moore Allen & Innocent on October 11-12 includes a series of personal items relating to William Duke of Clarence, later William IV (1765-1837).

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.

Collector who helped Madonna on road to stardom becomes the centre of attention in West Sussex saleroom

A classic example of Italian ‘anti-design’ led Billings’ (30% buyer’s premium) latest auction of Modern Art & Design.

Lion & Unicorn (25% buyer’s premium) is currently selling items from the estate of the late Marie-Claude Lalique (1935-2003).

Three-inch globes were mostly sold as pocket globes, typically as a terrestrial globe contained within a ray-skin case with the celestial gores for the heavens pasted inside.