South-east England

American customers are reappearing and dealers are hoping for a jubilee trade bounce

Chinese emperors certainly got the message when it came to artistic advances

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

Estimated at £120-150, this modest 7in (17cm) high Chinese export silver golfing trophy sold for £5500 at Bourne End Auction Rooms (17.5% buyer’s premium).

The recent auction at Bellmans (22% buyer’s premium) included the firm’s biannual horological offering.

Among recent sales with a lyrical element was Mallams’ (25% buyer’s premium) Art & Music auction on April 6 in Oxford.

Popular figures were created in Chelsea by husband and wife duo Charles and Nell Vyse

A family of antiques dealers are hoping to raise funds to continue the restoration of two Elizabethan barns in the Surrey countryside that house their centre.

This rare doucai porcelain vase, with Qianlong marks and probably of period, provided a classic tale of discovery in the saga of the Chinese boom.

Sperm whale teeth, acquired from mammals that had beached on local reefs, had a deep significance to Fijian society.

Jackie Edwards of ACVR Events is getting even busier with the antiques, brocantes and art markets she runs across southern England: nine at the last count.

Try original advertising artwork if you want to capture the atmosphere of an era.

Three upcoming UK book auctions

'Bewegungsstudie', or ‘Study of Movement’, by Rudolf Koppitz, is the most famous of six tipped-in photogravures, each with a protective glassine sheet, that make up Pictures from the Tyng Collection, a 1931 publication of the Royal Photographic Society.

When the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was liberated on April 15, 1945, a party of British Red Cross nurses and doctors stayed and tended those they could help back to health.

Among the works by 19th century Italian artists generating interest at recent UK auctions was a landscape by Giovanni ‘Nino’ Costa (1826-1903).

First-time exhibitor William Cook Antiques brings a pair of early 19th century gilded Japanese screens to the 56th Annual Buxton Antiques Fair.

Tunes play an important part at this four-day riverside fair with a festival feel