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Auctioneers are gearing up to win business and take on staff in the wake of the closure of Christie’s South Kensington later this year.

Masterpiece London has revealed the list of 149 dealers to stand at its eighth annual fair taking place this summer, a similar number to 2016.

A select sale of just 31 lots of Asian art assembled by a Japanese collector and his sons raised a recordbreaking $262.8m (£215.5m) at Christie’s New York on March 15. It made more in a single evening than any New York Asian sale series.

The legal impasse surrounding the restitution of thousands of historical documents and manuscripts from the scandal-hit Aristophil investment scheme was finally broken last week.

Following a deal between the German state and specialist manuscripts dealer Les Enluminures, this 10th century illuminated Gospels created at Liesborn Abbey will return to Westphalia.

An academic report based on a small sample of dealers and auctioneers has called for “significant structural changes” to the laws governing the sale of ivory.

Concerns are mounting that a new government money laundering watchdog will lead to further red tape for dealers and auctioneers in the UK.

We regret to announce the death on March 11 of Cotswolds dealer Stephen Jarrett of Witney Antiques.

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As the market evolves, auction rooms will inevitably come and go. But few will leave their mark like Christie’s South Kensington.

250 jobs threatened as venerable rooms fall victim to global review

Reaction from ex-CSK specialists to the announcement that the saleroom will be closing.

Much will depend on what the plan is for King Street and for the firm’s online-only sales (a growing but small fragment of the Christie’s business totalling £49.8m last year).

European CITES management authorities published a nine-page guidance report last week following a decision to protect all species of rosewood.

Bonhams will conduct the first of a new format flagship sale next month.

Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions is to hold the first sale in its new Pall Mall home in April.

London Auctions in Chiswick has hired a handful of new staff and is launching its first specialist sale this month.

A previously unknown work by Bartolomeo Cavarozzi (1587-1625) was snapped up within minutes of the opening of TEFAF in Maastricht.

The antiques trade has expressed disappointment following the Spring Budget, after its reform of business rates fell short of the wholesale changes requested by industry bodies.

Latest TEFAF market report says uncertainty drives confidentiality