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Pick of the week: Buyer figures out the tureen differences
01 February 2021Tureens in the form of geese, cockerel, carp, ox head, boar’s head and other animals were an integral part of the grand display in an 18th century European dining room.
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Pick of the week: Up, up and away for £3.3m Aynhoe Park auction dispersal
25 January 2021Some of the most eagerly contested lots in the Aynhoe Park: The Celebration of a Modern Grand Tour sale held by Dreweatts in Oxfordshire on January 20-21 were those created by the owner of the property himself.
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Pick of the week: Aroma therapy – the c.1800 perfumes concealed in a book
18 January 2021The luxury perfumery l’Officina Profuma Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella in Florence is considered the oldest pharmacy in the world.
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Pick of the week: Take tea with the queen – at a twelfth the normal size
11 January 2021A copy of the Royal Doulton dinner service commissioned in 1922 for Queen Mary’s doll’s house sold for a top-estimate £30,000 (plus 25% buyer’s premium) as part of the Thomas Goode auction at Sotheby’s.
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Pick of the week: Vincennes Louis XV dish takes £95,000
21 December 2020This 12½in (32cm) Vincennes circular dish or plat d’entremets from the first Louis XV service sold for £95,000 (plus 25% buyer’s premium) at Woolley & Wallis.
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Pick of the week: Jumbo price from Rothberger collection
14 December 2020The Anschluss of 1938 between Nazi Germany and Austria had a devastating effect on Vienna’s Jewish population.
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Pick of the week: De Morgan’s Frightened Bird flaps to £27,000
07 December 2020This 14in (36cm) diameter ‘double lustre’ shallow dish or charger by William De Morgan (1839-1917) is decorated in the so-called ‘Frightened Bird’ pattern.
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Pick of the week: Rev Gilpin champions the Romantic ideal
30 November 2020The artist, cleric, schoolmaster and author William Gilpin (1724-1804) is best known as a champion of the Romantic idea of the picturesque.
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Pick of the week: Florence sparkles in Castrucci’s stunning stone carving
23 November 2020In 1592, the Florentine stone carver Cosimo Castrucci (fl.1576-1602) was called to the imperial court in Prague by Rudolph II.
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Pick of the week: Window into 18th century gentry life
16 November 2020An item of local interest to bidders at Bamfords in Derby was this 18th century account book for Radbourne Hall, the seat of the Chandos-Pole family.
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Pick of the week: Fab pair from ‘Glasgow Four’ duo
09 November 2020Two pieces by ‘Glasgow Four’ artists Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) and Frances Macdonald McNair (1873-1921) topped Lyon & Turnbull’s Decorative Arts: Design since 1860 auction on November 2-3.
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Pick of the week: Manuscript at Roseberys reveals a little-studied era
02 November 2020As referenced in an inscription to the opening folio, this early 19th century manuscript – offered at Roseberys in south London – was produced for the Nawab of Sachin, Ibrahim Muhammed Yakut Khan I Bahadur (r.1802-53).
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Pick of the week: Toso’s ‘Monsieur and Madame Satan’
26 October 2020Relatively little is known about the 19th century woodcarver Francesco Toso, who was born in Murano, Venice, to a family of glass makers.
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Pick of the week: Replica great auk is real winner at auction
19 October 2020A Rowland Ward replica of a great auk – the flightless seabird that became extinct in the mid 19th century – sold at auction in Gloucestershire for £25,000.
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Pick of the week: King George I in the running at £125,000
12 October 2020Paintings by leading British sporting artists went under the hammer for the first time in over 100 years at Cheffins in Cambridge on October 1.
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Pick of the week: Slide rule measures up at £11,000
05 October 2020The invention of the gauger’s slide rule in the 1680s is generally credited to one Thomas Everard of Southampton.
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Pick of the week: Was this the best lockdown find?
28 September 2020An 18th century Beijing-enamel wine pot and cover described as the ‘ultimate lockdown find’ has sold for £390,000 at auction in Derbyshire.
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Watch auctioneer Charles Hanson selling the ‘ultimate lockdown find’ found in a workman’s garage
24 September 2020An 18th century Beijing-enamel wine pot and cover described as the ‘ultimate lockdown find’ has sold for £390,000 at auction in Derbyshire.
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Pick of the week: The Stobwasser box that was up to snuff
21 September 2020Economic stimulus packages are not a new phenomenon. Georg Siegmund Stobwasser (1717-76) was among the many craftsmen attracted to the Brunswick by the special privileges granted them in the city by Duke Karl I (1713-80) in the wake of the Seven Years’ War.
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Pick of the Week: Browning family archive sells in Somerset
14 September 2020A cache of material related to the influential Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61) and her family sold for close to £50,000 at Lawrences of Crewkerne.
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