Auction Reports

This huge porcelain breakfast service was made to welcome Queen Victoria and Prince Albert on their first visit to Scotland in 1842.

More Odundo ceramics pieces sell well at specialist auction house Maak

Shown here are two highlights from sales of Islamic & Indian art held by London salerooms recently.

A recent sale at Gildings (20% buyer’s premium) of Market Harborough included a number of medals of historical interest.

Trying to set a water-speed record is one of sport’s most hazardous competitions – with a high fatality rate as a result.

Extensive cross-section of design-themed objects offered in Edinburgh and London by same auction house

Lyon & Turnbull’s Lalique sale had been displayed at the Mall Galleries in London with posters from the Shell Heritage Art Collection as a backdrop.

Lowestoft porcelain is particularly admired for its sense of place: the close ties the factory on Crown Street (then Bell Lane) enjoyed with its local community in Norfolk and Suffolk between 1757-1802.

Almost two decades after the first American cast-iron mechanical banks, John Harper and Company of the Albion Works in Willenhall, Staffordshire filed a patent for the Wimbledon bank on September 21, 1885.

This half-tester bed with its carved heraldic lions and painted and gilt panels is part of an extensive bedroom suite made c.1870 by Collier & Plucknett.

Sworders' latest Design sale included a group of Arts & Crafts items from the estate of the design writer and biographer Fiona MacCarthy (1940-2020).

Titanic specialist auction house Henry Aldridge & Son sells poignant items related to the rescue and recovery ships.

Dewlish House yields ‘good old-fashioned house sale with everything on offer’

The 27 animal models created for Beswick by Colin Melbourne represented the firm at its most avant garde.

While Georgian spectacles are relatively common at auction, 17th century examples are a rarer beast.

Even 40 years ago, when the market for George Tinworth (1843-1913) anthropomorphic mouse groups was in its relative infancy, this 3½in (9cm) model above would have been a bargain at £1.

Second sale since auction house move and name change is a British art pottery success

A week after Kinghams’ (23% buyer’s premium) inaugural Moreton-in-Marsh sale of British art pottery, the new Cotswolds rooms enjoyed a big hit in miniature – more specifically this portrait by one of Britain’s greatest miniaturists: John Smart (1743-1811).

Bloomfield Auctions (15% buyer’s premium) in Belfast achieved a house record on May 11 with the sale of this William De Morgan vase for £15,000.

Estimated at just £80-150, a Queen Anne or George I period needlework sampler sold for £10,000 via thesaleroom.com at Lawrences (25% buyer’s premium) of Crewkerne.