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Famille rose vases decorated with ‘Hundred Boys’ scenes are among the most commercial of all Qing ceramics.

Percy Thomas Tibbles, born in Hampstead, London, in 1881, was destined to become famous for cutting women in half.

Arguably the most eyecatching bidding battle at the latest London Old Master series was for a painting of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.

The Woolley & Wallis sale in Salisbury on September 21 titled Arts of Africa, Oceania and he Americas includes a small section of antiquities.

Inscribed to her husband and fellow poet, Ted Hughes, the dedication copy of the first and only collection of Sylvia Plath’s poems to be published in her lifetime, 'The Colossus and other Poems', sold for a record £75,000 in a Sotheby’s (25/20/13.9% buyer’s premium) sale.

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.

Special Auctions Services (25% buyer’s premium) in Newbury sold the collection of John Garside last month.

A collection of portraits from a descendant of the Hicks Beach family of Witcombe Park will be offered at Chorley’s on September 21-22.

TimeLine Auctions’ Antiquities sale includes a dozen good examples of Roman glass including this 3rd-5th century unguentarium with zigzag trail decoration.

Priced on the cover at nine pence, it was a British copy of a Marvel comic of 1983, one that saw the first appearance of the mighty Thor, that led the bidding at £6300 in the comics section of a July 21-22 sale held by Fieldings (24% buyer’s premium).

Guy Rothwell runs Antiquities Online.

Sasha dolls were popular presents in the sixties and seventies and still in demand enough at auction today to hit four figures.

The headline borrows the title given to an online Christie’s (26/20% buyer’s premium) sale – one that presented more than 80 modern first editions.

English and Continental ‘country house’ offerings are rare in the US but not gone forever

Essex saleroom Sworders will sell a group of works by Angelica Kauffman (1741- 1807) next month.

Although, thanks in part to Bram Stoker’s Dracula (first published in 1897), bats have acquired a reputation as ‘creatures of the night’ in many cultures they are viewed as symbols of luck or reincarnation.

On Friday, August 19, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $1752.90 / €1749.20 / £1476.12

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including a 17th century Lombard painting blocked from leaving the UK.

During the administration of Rutherford Hayes, who served as the 19th President of the US from 1877-81, the White House commissioned a dinner service from the Haviland factory in Limoges.