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A Wiltshire auction house has alerted the trade to a missing collection of porcelain.

An Egyptian polychrome painted limestone relief from the 12th dynasty has been bought by the State Museum of Egyptian Art in Munich, Germany.

The British Antique Dealers’ Association (BADA) has reorganised its team and created a new role of director of strategy and operations.

Click-and-collect services from non-essential retail will now no longer be allowed in Scotland.

Golding Young & Mawer is to offer the untouched collection of a Warwickshire country house at the end of the month.

Dealers, collectors and curators traditionally head to New York and Florida in January and February for a wide array of events.

An auctioneer has put his own name above the door after working for more than three decades in the same Winchester saleroom.

The organiser of The Open Art Fair is to appeal a small claims court ruling that said two dealers need pay only part of their stand fee as the event was cut short.

All fairs and markets and physical art and antiques exhibitions and events are cancelled across England under the new coronavirus lockdown restrictions.

Bonhams has set a new record for a toby jug with this c.1785 Admiral Lord Rodney jug.

The highlight of a private collection of Robert Thompson oak carvings to be offered by Tennants on March 6 is this curious anthropomorphic figure of the ‘Mouseman of Kilburn’.

Some of the best US coin discoveries are today made in the UK.

Sotheby’s edged ahead of Christie’s in terms of annual turnover in 2020, with private and online sales helping both firms offset declines in totals from live auctions.

What is perhaps the earliest dated piece of Irish glass sold at auction in Lewes.

Closing the year in some style, a patinated and parcel gilt bronze ‘double size’ figure of St George set a new auction record for Sir Alfred Gilbert (1854-1934) at Bonhams.

Demand for independent condition reports soared during lockdown, according to one restoration firm.