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‘You can never have too much folk art’
07 September 2020Barney and Sam James own a huge warehouse showroom called The Home Bothy near Crawley in Sussex, currently only open by appointment.
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I know that face… I think
07 September 2020The Petworth Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair (September 11-13), is a big step towards getting back to business as usual for many dealers and collectors.
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First auction appearance for work by missionary who opened up Chinese language
31 August 2020Robert Morrison, a protestant missionary, pioneer sinologist and author of several works on the Chinese language as well as a translator, has been called the ‘Father of Anglo-Chinese Literature’.
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All eyes now on Petworth as the first higher-end physical fair to take place after lockdown gets ready
31 August 2020Nearly six months after doors closed on the last major British antiques fair, another is ready to open.
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Chinese export cabinets at Bellmans come market-fresh from family
31 August 2020A pair of Chinese export black lacquer chinoiserie decorated cabinets on stands came for sale at Bellmans (22% buyer’s premium) in Wisborough Green, West Sussex on August 11 with a blue-chip provenance.
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Statues surface from sunken garden site after decades in the undergrowth
24 August 2020An extraordinary cache of garden statuary, unseen for decades, comes for sale at Summers Place Auctions next month.
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Brighton and Lewes fleas bounce back
17 August 2020“We opened at the earliest opportunity two months ago and were immediately ridiculously busy,” said David Skeet, general manager of the Brighton and Lewes fleamarkets.
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Two collections of football programmes at auction surge over estimates
10 August 2020While Manchester United and early FA Cup match programmes often make the big money at auction, a group on offer at a West Sussex saleroom showed that far less famous names can also make the running.
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Two tastes of Yorkshire
03 August 2020Two works by Fred Stead (1863-1940) drew strong interest at Bellmans (22% buyer’s premium) in West Sussex thanks, in part, to here-to-be-sold estimates. They were being consigned from a deceased estate.
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Sixties posters on a high
03 August 2020The artist John Hurford was a key figure in the British psychedelia movement of the late 1960s.
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Ivory in demand ahead of trade ban
20 July 2020Despite – or because of – the imminent prohibition, good-quality antique ivory works of art continue to bring solid prices at auction.
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Pick of the week: Harry Becker's farmhands shine in Mid-Summer
29 June 2020This 8 x 10in (21 x 25cm) oil on canvas board sketch of two farmhands cutting grasses with a scythe is unsigned but it carries a label on the back from an Ipswich Borough Council exhibition which identifies the artist as Harry Becker (1865-1928) and the picture’s title as Fieldworkers in Mid-Summer.
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Petworth gallery returns to business
29 June 2020Kevis House Gallery in Petworth hailed the return to business as sales followed the reopening of its premises.
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West Dean buys new picture revealing its grand 19th century entrance hall
27 May 2020West Dean College of Arts and Conservation has bought a watercolour depicting the grand entrance hall of college's residence.
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Purdey & Sons rifle made for a royal tour of India sells at Gavin Gardiner
04 May 2020A Purdey & Sons double-barrel hammer rifle built in 1875 for the Prince of Wales’ Indian tour of 1875-76 sold for £8000 at the Gavin Gardiner (25% buyer’s premium) live online auction of Modern & Vintage Sporting Guns on April 22.
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Witch pickings in salerooms
06 April 2020Puritan Cotton Mather’s defence of executions is latest work on the subject to surface.
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Shell out for unusual furniture
30 March 2020As a young man in the 1960s, British creative designer Anthony Redmile (b.1937) took the London interior design scene by storm. Although his work was hugely eclectic, he became best known for his quirky designs taken from the animal kingdom.
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‘A crapshooter throwing dice’
23 March 2020Paul Jenkins (1923-2012), an American Abstract artist and member of the New York School, was born in Kansas City. He worked at a ceramics factory in his youth, an experience that heavily influenced his tactile methods of painting.
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Middle Eastern medical manuscript proves to be £70,000 saleroom cure
09 March 2020Said to date from the 12th-14th century, an incomplete and dampstained Middle Eastern medical manuscript sold for £70,000 at Bellmans (22% buyer’s premium) on February 22.
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