Auctions

The November 6-7 Asian Art sale at Chiswick Auctions includes this Song dynasty ding ware pottery figure of Shou Loa, god of longevity.

Nanban, meaning ‘southern barbarians’, was the Japanese term for Europeans.

This autumn, as he refines his collecting impulses, Anthony Lovett is selling pieces from his collection of Kangxi porcelain

This Jin dynasty Cizhou-type double gourd vase comes for sale at Mallams in Cheltenham on November 8 with an estimate of £2000-3000.

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.

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

Woolley & Wallis will offer five catalogues this November – including two named single-owner sales.

Following the record £64,000 for a Helen Allingham (1848-1926) watercolour at Philip Serrell (20% buyer’s premium) back in July, another group of works by the artist was offered at the Malvern saleroom.

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.

Wassailing ceremonies on important feast days were a legacy of Anglo-Saxon culture.

Dutch artist used a technique that was much admired in his homeland as well as Britain

This Korean slip-inlaid (sanggam) celadon-glazed cup stand dates from the 13th century and the height of the Goryeo dynasty (918-1392).

Shozo Shimamoto (1928-2013) was a founding member of the Gutai movement that looked for new ways to apply paint to a canvas.

Cecil Aldin (1870-1935) was best known for his portraits of dogs and other animals, but romanticised village and hunting scenes were also very popular.

Sotheby’s and Christie’s have both announced major lots that will feature at the next series of Old Master auctions in London in December.

An allegorical bird and flower oil painted by the artist-plantsman Cedric Morris (1889-1982) in the shadow of the Second World War comes to auction this month.

Beautiful watercolours by children’s book author and illustrator come to auction in studio sale