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Treatise about painting was a unique version among pre-publication copies thanks to the drawings

This summer Liss Llewellyn is hosting an intriguing online show called 'Long Live Great Bardfield'.

This year, Munich auction house Ketterer (32/27/22% buyer’s premium) is marking its 70th anniversary and the evening sale provided plenty of opportunities for celebration.

On August 28, Glasgow auction house McTear’s is conducting a single-owner, single-subject sale titled The Art of the Biscuit Tin: The Lewis Collection.

Vases tell the story of an obsession to recreate a celebrated antiquity

Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works on paper sales

Viennese auction house Tiberius (27% buyer’s premium) recently sold the inventory of Laudon Castle, a privately owned, moated baroque residence on the outskirts of the Austrian capital.

Texting and Zooming have practically taken over our busy lives and taking time out to write a card, let alone a letter, seems like too much of a stretch. Yet UK Pen Shows, which runs dedicated fairs at five UK locations, is thriving.

On Friday, August 16, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $2462.80 / €2234.09 / £1909.15

Four fresh-to-market works by the Edwardian enfant terrible artist come for sale in Exeter

Made with oil and sand, this work by Italian artist Domenico Gnoli (1933-70) was taken to a multi-estimate £42,000 via a phone bid at Mallams (25% buyer’s premium).

As Hidden Treasures, Neil Payne organises monthly antique and vintage fairs in Berkhamsted and Haddenham in Hertfordshire, Benson in Oxfordshire and Marlow in Buckinghamshire.

Catalogued simply as “a cased pair of spectacles, 19th century, the case in shagreen, along with three magnifying glasses”, an understated lot estimated at £30-50 fell between a portrait miniature of Napoleon and a set of 1950s headlights.

ATG’s pick of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com, featuring both the highest prices over-estimate and the top prices paid online.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including the launch of a new series of dedicated sales at Lay's

Agnete Hoy (1914-2000) brought her own distinctive style to the ailing Doulton Lambeth factory, reviving the traditional decorative methods of earlier artists to make contemporary stonewares from 1952 until the studio closed in 1957.

Recent sales show the appetite for Chinese art from bidders with deep pockets is not at all diminished

'Freedom is in Peril Defend it with all your Might' was a British propaganda poster published by the Ministry of Information.

Appearing at a time of increased market interest in pioneering female artists, a portrait by Elizabeth Cameron Mawson (1849-1939) set a significant new artist’s record at Newcastle saleroom Anderson & Garland (25% buyer’s premium).

Nagel’s (29.5% buyer’s premium) first sale dedicated to Fine Arts and Luxury in Stuttgart obviously caught the mood of the bidders.