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At 2ft 5in (74cm) high, this English made wooden doll c.1740 is unusually large.

A pair of 3ft 7in high (1.12m) Victorian iron pier finials cast as rampant lions have returned home after two decades missing from a family home.

Two long-standing auction department heads launch second careers as dealers this month.

The latest flagship sales of Modern and Contemporary art in New York showed a return to some normality after a difficult 14 months.

The first of two Bonhams sales dispersing the remaining stock of the long-established Chinese art dealership of Roger Keverne was a marathon affair.

A previously lost bronze and ormolu vase designed and commissioned by Thomas Hope has been discovered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where it had been converted into a table base.

Sotheby’s has made changes to its Old Master department in London.

The bicentenary of Napoléon Bonaparte's death boosts demand for relics

The restrictions operating during the latest lockdowns are continuing to ease in countries including France and the Republic of Ireland.

Medal groups awarded to two of The Few – the heroic RAF and Fleet Air Arm pilots of the Battle of Britain – are on offer at auction this month.

The increasingly contentious issue of selling Benin works of art at auction raised its head again last week after an ancestral plaque catalogued as 16th or 17th century was withdrawn from an East Sussex sale.

Bonhams has moved its annual Greek art auction to France from London following Brexit.

A group of nearly 200 early images and ephemera by the pioneering photographer William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-77) more than quadrupled its lower estimate at Sotheby’s in New York.

A portrait argued to be of author Emily Brontë is coming to auction this month.

A bronze sculpture of an ostrich catalogued as from the workshop of Mannerist sculptor Giambologna drew an extraordinary competition in Cambridge.

Perhaps the finest assemblage of English clocks in private hands goes on sale in the summer at Winchester dealership Carter Marsh.

London indoor fair organisers have begun to announce dates for later this year.

Art hub Cromwell Place has received approval from HMRC to operate an official Customs warehouse.