Print issue 2390 (04 May 2019)
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News
- Saatchi Gallery art fair joins London summer calendar
- EU cultural goods bill is ‘blow’ to market – but full impact may not be felt until 2025
- Rothschild works add lustre to summer auction series
- Block imposed on £10m van Leyden
- ‘Partner to the Canning Jewel’ surfaces in Salisbury
- Summer Olympia takes to the floor
News Digest
- Pick of the week: Box pushes sentimentality aside for a siege celebration at Welsh auction
- Bid Barometer
- Precious metals prices: issue 2390
- News In Brief – including the joint purchase of an 18th century portrait by two UK museums
Feature
- SILVER: Sale of the ‘Mambury Set’ of 10 James I apostle spoons tops the regional spring sales of antique silver
- Elkington electroplated device impresses at Shrewsbury sale
- Stuart Devlin's unique design proves a surprise nest egg at auction
- Kinsale marrow scoop is a cut above in Crewkerne
- Snuff boxes and vinaigrettes sell out after emerging from longstanding collection at auction
- Intriguing histories bump up prices for silver lots at UK auctions
- Continental silver becomes a growing presence in the provinces
Auction Reports
- ART MARKET: Biannual auctions centred on the local region bring good results for Colchester saleroom
- Seago trio takes £44,000 at Sussex auction
- Glasgow Girl in Edinburgh sale
- Affordable art: Three works sold for under £1700 including a Charles D'Oyly watercolour
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Lot offers something of the night
- Works show how to stay sharp at cards
- Ferns book makes first auction appearance
- A good hair day in the saleroom
- Gould birds volume rises high
- Taking a view beyond the £90,000 London panorama
- British and Irish book auctions: April 30-May 11, 2019
Previews
- Previews: Up to £500
- Previews: £501 - £2000
- Previews: £2001 - £5000
- Previews: £5001 - £30,000
- Previews: £30,000 plus
Dealers’ Diary
- Illustrations discovered in a shed 32 years ago now emerge for sale at Petworth fair
- Garden antiques set to bloom at Suffolk dealer's selling event
- Phillips dealership makes a move across North Yorkshire
- 5 Questions: Dr Stewart Abbott
- The web shop window: English multi-spiral air twist wine glass
- John Piper’s castle in triplicate at Great Malvern exhibition
International
- Raise a glass to a Mozart note
- Blunt portrayals bring sharp bidding in Munich
- Madonna and Minerva sculptures stand out in Vienna sale
- Bidders suspect an Italian hand at work
- Stamp denotes Parisian origin
- Casket was born in Bethlehem
- Napoleon bronze commands high price in Zurich auction
- INTERNATIONAL PREVIEWS: Flintlock pistols marked London hail from the Balkans
- Watch takes inspiration from play that became an opera
- Traditional Russian drinking vessel served up at auction
- Russian collectors likely to keep an eye on Roubaud
- Marvellous Meissen collection includes Kaendler cockerel
- Cologne saleroom offers 115 bronze mortars from collection
- Lucie Rie bowl among strong selection of modern British ceramics
Fairs & Markets
- Queen's Brian May turns up the stereos
- Fair is question time for veteran dealer Spencer Swaffer
- Extra visitors expected at boat jumble
- Go upmarket at Norwich fleamarket
Letters & Opinion
- Giacomo Herman cabinet must stay in UK
- But why is it ‘white glove sale’?
- This has got my aerated waters going
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