Print issue 2360 (29 September 2018)
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News
- Trade lobbying helps win reprieve on US imports of Chinese art and antiques
- Indo-Portuguese furniture exports shine at auction in the UK
- Fair sales of art and antiques at Saatchi and LAPADA
News Digest
- Pick of the Week: British studio pottery from Jennifer Lee thrown into new territory
- Bid barometer
- Swan’s first bulb sheds light on Bonhams science and technology auction
- News In Brief – including a colonial silver teapot donated to a US museum
Feature
Auction Reports
- Five-figure sums for sculpture, furniture and bronze politicians across early autumn sales
- Figures take multi-estimate bids at Chiswick Auctions and Ewbank's
- ART MARKET: Self portrait by Lucia Casalini Torelli tops trio of female faces at £400,000 Salisbury sale
- The calm before and after the bidding storm
- Airfix artwork brings bidding at specialist toy auction house
- Francis Cotes’ archer on target in Essex
- Saleroom selection: three works under £1000 including a watercolour by Hercules Brabazon Brabazon
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Marking three decades with the Dominic Winter anniversary sale
- Record catch for a Compleat Angler
- Dangerous and hard to find: Rigby Graham’s 'The Casquets'
- 15th century Venetian edition of Julius Caesar's 'Commentarii' takes £19,000 at Sotheby's
- British and Irish book auctions: September 25-October 6, 2018
Previews
- Previews: Up to £500
- Previews: £501 - £2000
- Previews: £2001 - £5000
- Previews: £5001 - £30,000
- Previews: £30,000 plus
Dealers’ Diary
- Northern Antiques Fair returns in October with a wealth of ceramic and glass
- Rare Minton majolica hens by Johann Henk are highlights at Arley Hall Fair
- Autumn Battersea fair puts the focus on Japonism
- 5 Questions: John Briggs
International
- Three upcoming lots in the US including a Eugène Delacroix portrait
- Sorolla portrait emerges in Madrid auction
- Large scale painting by Frans Francken II emerges in Troyes
Fairs & Markets
- Kempton antique arms fair going great guns
- Discover Vintage, and an Ercol commission, in Leeds
- Flea market gets rebranded from antiques to upmarket
- Young visitor numbers on the rise at Bloomsbury pen fair
Letters to the editor
- Martin Levy: "Desire to save the elephant and preserving ivory art works not mutually exclusive"
- ‘Buyers are still surprised by the premium they must pay’