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After many false dawns Jennifer Titmuss is finally launching her monthly Chiswick Antique and Vintage Market on Sunday May 9.

The name ‘peg tankard’ comes from the vertical row of pegs inside that can be used to measure the amount of alcohol drunk as it was passed around a table.

The sale of Islamic Art & Antiquities at Roseberys London (25% buyer’s premium) on March 31 included this New Kingdom yellow quartzite shabti fragment.

Dozens of London galleries are primed to open their doors to the public for the capital’s first physical mass art event in months.

Mayfair art gallery Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker has relocated to new premises on Clifford Street.

On April 29, Lyon & Turnbull, in partnership with poster specialist Tomkinson Churcher, will present Design on the Move: Selected Posters from the Shell Heritage Art Collection.

Five paintings representing the five senses by Henri Guillaume Schlesinger offered by Bonhams boasted a French royal provenance.

The start of May is likely to be a busy period with outside fairs and markets opening up around England and Wales after a protracted lockdown hibernation. Here is a snapshot of a few of them.

Exhibition tells the tale of an unconventional partnership opening up a conservative art scene

Tom Edwards is now managing director of London picture dealership Abbott and Holder following the retirement of co-director Philip Athill.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

Lesser-known painter Alice Boyd emerges via Cheyne Walk at London auction

Lack of a dust jacket is not always crucial to a high price, as Erskine Childers’ much-loved The Riddle of the Sands of 1903 shows.

Titled 'Tossa de Mar' (c.1908), this painting by the Spanish Impressionist Laureano Barrau (1863-1957) forms part of an exhibition at London gallery Colnaghi putting some of Spain’s lesser-known modern masters in the limelight.

Old Master sheets such as this lively example of satyr and Bacchus studies are believed to have served as a repertoire of motifs used in paintings or prints by the artist or their studio.

The Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair (DATF) has announced the launch of its latest iteration of the online platform, Digital Decorative, which was set up in response to the cancellation of its physical fairs during the pandemic.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

Tapestry and textiles specialist S Franses is to face its landlord in court for the fourth time next month.