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LAPADA fair return in 2023 boosts membership

13 March 2023

The return of the LAPADA Berkeley Square Fair has generated new memberships for the association.

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Moretti showcases those who followed Donatello

13 March 2023

St James's exhibition looks beyond Donatello, currently featured at the V&A, to discover how Florentine artists influenced homes of the era

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Horsup in shot for Tatler

13 March 2023

Jewellery and vintage accessories dealer Gillian Horsup is in demand – not just for her sparkling gems and handbags, but for her modelling credentials.

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Great and the good connected in a collar

13 March 2023

This Victorian 18ct gold, enamel and gemset collar tells a fascinating story of a well-known aristocratic family.

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Long life down to good cooking?

13 March 2023

Manuscript including recipes sold for £15,000 was written by a lady who died ‘aged around 100’

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Fresh name for London’s newest summer art fair

08 March 2023

A new fair planned by two of the original founders of 'Masterpiece' has a new name: 'The Treasure House Fair'.

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Receipt now reveals Nelson’s specs appeal

06 March 2023

Nelson’s life and work has been exhaustively researched and evaluated since the day he died.

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Silver: No longer the last days of the Raj

06 March 2023

A once neglected aspect of the silver market received a showpiece sale in February. ATG reports on the Stewart collection of Anglo-Indian silver from the Raj period.

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Restitutions prominent at latest Modern and Contemporary art series

06 March 2023

The overall total raised at the latest round of Modern and Contemporary art sales in London was boosted by a couple of recently restituted pictures.

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Connect Fair: Event run by dealers for dealers

06 March 2023

Organisers of Connect Fair also take part as exhibitors among a ‘young and lively’ group from across the UK

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First taste of Worcester since 2001 for London dealer Albert Amor

06 March 2023

Albert Amor’s latest catalogue opens with a mustard pot. Dating to c.1753-54, the pot and cover of baluster shaped ‘silver’ form is offered for £4800.

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5 Questions with jewellery dealer Saul Greenstein

06 March 2023

Saul Greenstein started trading in 2001 and has been dealing from Grays antiques centre of Mayfair, London, for the past 15 years.

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David Messum Fine Art hosts Arthur Knighton-Hammond exhibition

06 March 2023

A watercolour of Villefranche-sur-Mer on the Côte d’Azur by Arthur Knighton-Hammond (1875-1970) is included in Messum’s exhibition on the artist.

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Christopher Dresser: ‘I propose three feet formed as to serve as handles’

06 March 2023

Dr Christopher Dresser’s conical sugar bowl with three angled leg-like supports is one of the great ‘eureka’ moments in Victorian design.

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School songbook signed by Winston Churchill for Jock is on tune

06 March 2023

Available from the school’s own bookshop from 1937 was a printed collection of Harrow School Songs, but it was a rather special copy that sold for £7500.

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London dealer John Mitchell hosts Alpine views exhibition

06 March 2023

This painting of Mont Blanc as seen from the Lago Chérouit, Val d’Aosta, Italy, is among the works featured in this year’s Peaks and Glaciers exhibition at John Mitchell Fine Paintings.

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The exotic appeal of coconuts and porcelain

06 March 2023

Cups with coconut bowls mounted in silver or silver-gilt were fashionable rarities in western Europe throughout the 16th and early 17th century. At the time the coconut was, like other ‘exotics’ such as nautilus shells or imported pottery and porcelain, held in high esteem.

Giacometti chandelier

Giacometti chandelier bought in Marylebone antiques shop for £250 sells for £2.4m

01 March 2023

A chandelier made in the 1940s for the offices of cultural magazine Horizon, and later purchased by artist John Craxton, sold for a hammer price of £2.4m at Christie’s.

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Camden Passage antiques dealers suffer amid new Islington traffic restrictions

28 February 2023

Traders at London’s historic Camden Passage antiques market have been blighted by roadworks for a new traffic system.

Pietre dure panel

Florentine panel fit for an emperor takes six-figure sum at Roseberys’ auction

27 February 2023

Research reveals £265,000 auction purchase is a celebrated work from Grand Ducal workshops

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