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‘Moggy Ming’ bowl sets £90,000 house record
15 August 2014The opening lots of a recent sale at Reeman Dansie of Colchester comprised a collection of Chinese porcelain which included a rare bowl that was apparently a favourite resting place for the family cat.
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Far Eastern market grows for Chinese Export silver
08 August 2014It’s only recently in the decade-long boom in Chinese works of art that Far Eastern buyers have come to appreciate once again the merits of Export silver. Once a neglected area, academic interest has been piqued in the subject as the marketplace moves in leaps and bounds.
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Fitzwilliam Museum buys Coalport jug at Agricultural Society auction
25 July 2014A massive Coalport Feldspar porcelain jug painted with a study of Earl Spencer’s Durham Ox in a parkland setting has been bought by the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.
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A £25,000 record for Irish flatware?
27 June 2014Seventeenth century Dublin trefid spoons are extremely scarce. Last year a single rat-tailed example by Andrew Gregory, 1685, sold for €9000 at Adams of Dublin.
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On the £7500 scent of James Giles
03 June 2014Trading from the Arts Museum in Cockspur Street, the famous James Giles (1718-80) china and glass decorating atelier produced an enormous diversity of bijouterie for the London luxury trade.
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The £150,000 doorstop with an Imperial past
02 May 2014The latest Asian art sale at Sworders in Stansted Mountfitchet was led by this massive 9½in (24.5cm) high Chinese calligrapher’s brush pot dating to the late 18th or early 19th century.
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Victorian brass rubbings emerge at Norwich fleamarket
11 April 2014An item with an interesting local connection which is for sale at this Saturday’s Norwich Fleamarket is a rare Victorian large folio of European brass rubbings collected by a Norwich cleric.
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Chinese wig stand sells for £360,000 in Cambridge
08 April 2014This Qianlong mark and period hat or wig stand sold for a massive £360,000 at a recent Cheffins sale in Cambridge.
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Lottery grant brings in Polar archive from the cold
07 April 2014The Polar Museum in Cambridge has confirmed that it has secured the photographic archive linked to Scott’s last expedition after a public appeal for funds by explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes.
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“I fell in love with antiques all over again”
14 March 2014DEALER PROFILE – Carolyn Mackender started her professional life at Bonhams, changed direction to become a teacher and has now come full circle, working as a dealer in decorative, vintage and retro pieces.
Auction house ties vendor fees to the reserve, not the hammer price
03 March 2014A Suffolk saleroom set to hold their first auction in May are going for a new business model of flat vendors’ fees based on reserves rather than the hammer price.
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The dealer who took the plunge by calling a Holt to finance
28 February 2014People who change their lives by entering the trade often share something in common – they show what can be done with a passion for antiques plus drive, determination and chutzpah.
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Constable drawings emerge at Cambridge sale
20 February 2014This pencil drawing by John Constable inscribed ‘Binfiled Decr. 6th 1816’ is believed to have made when the artist was staying in Binfield in Berkshire whilst returning from his honeymoon in Dorset with his wife Maria.
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Modern British art collection at Boningtons
12 February 2014A single-owner collection of Modern British art will be offered at Boningtons’ sale of fine art, antiques and Asian works of art in Loughton, Essex on February 26.
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Competing for leaden hearts
11 February 2014A rare visitor to the recent numismatic sale at Lockdales in Martlesham Heath, Ipswich was a group of three convict tokens.
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The End of an Era – Luton Hoo’s final sale
04 February 2014Cambridge auctioneers Cheffins have sold the residual contents of the Luton Hoo estate.
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Danish furniture pulled from sale over CITES
29 January 2014More than 80 lots of Danish rosewood furniture were withdrawn from Sworder’s January 28 sale of Decorative Art and Design after advice that their sale contravened the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna.
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Art Deco sideboard at specialist design sale
23 January 2014This Art Deco walnut sideboard accompanied by a dining table is one of around 400 lots of Art Deco, Arts & Crafts and Danish design furniture on sale at Sworders of Stansted Mountfitchet later this month.
Dealers’ Diary: Ten Questions with Natalie Smith
23 January 2014This week’s 10 Questions is with Natalie Smith, owner of Woodbridge Antiques Centre, Suffolk
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Lowestoft birth tablet takes £7400
15 January 2014English porcelain birth tablets are unique to Lowestoft – and one of many pieces that give the factory’s wares such a profound sense of time and place.
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