Law, crime and regulation

Four Chinese jade vessels have sold for 10 times their estimate after being stolen more than 12 years ago.

The Metropolitan Police are investigating claims of a £3m theft from art fair Masterpiece London.

An action group that campaigns for the protection of elephants staged a protest against the trade in antique ivory outside Art & Antiques Fair Olympia, on Saturday afternoon (July 1).

The department of culture, media and sport has issued an export bar on an 18th century drawing of Schmadribach Waterfall by Austrian Romantic artist Joseph Anton Koch (1768-1839) and launched a search for a UK buyer to match the asking price of £68,750.

Police are appealing to the trade to help locate jewellery stolen in Shropshire.

Three men have been charged in a New York court in connection with a $400,000 scam to sell fake artworks by Damien Hirst.

An action group that campaigns against modern ivory poaching is to stage a protest against the trade in antique ivory at the Art and Antiques Fair, Olympia, on 1 July.

The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles will be able to take a Parmigianino oil painting to the US after no UK buyer could be found to match the £24.5m price tag.

Michael Gove MP has said he would reconsider introducing a pledge for a total ivory ban.

The final votes are still being counted but the UK is facing a hung parliament. The Conservatives are the largest party but have no clear majority.

A West Sussex robbery has resulted in the loss of more than £200,000 of antique jewellery, handbags and other valuables.

A view of Venice by Michele Marieschi (1710-44) which was seized by the Nazis in 1940 will be offered at Sotheby’s this summer following an agreement over a longstanding restitution claim.

An American museum has doubled its reward to $10m to find artworks stolen 25 years ago.