Print issue 2362 (13 October 2018)
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News
- Tighten rules on trade in rhino horn says antiques dealer group BADA
- Hot early sales at Frieze Masters
- BBC's decision to axe Flog It! after 17 years is "disappointing," presenters say
- Buyers dig deep for classical ‘Roman’ bust at Sheffield auction
- Ivory ban law not expected until spring 2019
- ‘Chinese Mona Lisa’ comes to auction from Body Shop founder Dame Anita Roddick
- Value of English coinage increases at Mayfair dealership Sovereign Rarities' first auction
News Digest
- Pick of the Week: Pair to the ‘Bainbridge vase’ sells for £14.6m at Sotheby’s Hong Kong auction
- Bid barometer
- When British beer cans burst into life at auction
- News In Brief – including a campaign to return a replica of the largest Roman mosaic to where it was made
Feature
- Studio pottery – UK regional salerooms are filling a market gap
- The studio pottery movement: a timeline
- Galleries nurture talents and display work of the next generation
- Clay designs with golden touch
- Moon jars inspire artist Michel François
Auction Reports
- Salisbury saleroom becomes travel hub twice a year to cover tribal art market
- Trio of shibayama sales reflects Japanese demand
- ART MARKET: Paris dancer swings into sale
- Poignant portrait of ‘doomed youth’ of the First World War
- Portrait subject spurs bidder to a high price
- Cursiter returns to his Orkney roots
- Affordable art: Six works sold or offered for under £900 including watercolour by a Victorian ‘prodigy of manual skill’
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: First book printed in Antarctica offered in New York as part of the Joe Fitzsimmons library
- Rare Indian Army photos march into saleroom
- Oor Wullie and pals delight the comic hoarders
- Napkyn covers remedies for plague and smallpox
- British and Irish book auctions: October 9-20, 2018
Previews
- Previews: Up to £500
- Previews: £501 - £2000
- Previews: £2001 - £5000
- Previews: £5001 - £30,000
- Previews: £30,000 plus
Dealers’ Diary
- Dealers at the Bruton Decorative Antiques Fair offer advice on discovering your top table
- Olivier takes the stage at Canon Gallery exhibition
- War posters on gallery roll-call
- 5 Questions: George Sandeman of The Armoury of St James's
International
- Two fairs in Munich lead a spotlight on the art and antiques scene in Germany
- Paul Storr silver terrine offered at Cologne auction
- Prime example of East German design emerges at Wendl
- Belgian creator’s idealised stained glass window heads to Sulzburg sale
- Gauguin in bronze: self-portrait in relief form consigned to Berlin auction
- Flemish artist’s Allegory of Winter offered at Vienna sale
- Marie Antoinette portrait in terracotta and wax heads to sale
- Prototype for rare Bauhaus children's game offered in Berlin
- Ancient ewers offered in Vienna
- Auction calendar: sales in Austria, Germany and Switzerland in autumn 2018
Fairs & Markets
- Family businesses fare well in the East of England
- BiblioMania in Paris looks at the appliance of science
- London mid-century fair takes film focus
- Collecting field to relight the fire
Letters to the editor
- Flog It! cancelled: Will the daytime antiques TV show be sadly missed or was it an idea flogged to death?
- Lack of compensation for owners of ivory ‘not fair’
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