Print issue 2419 (30 November 2019)
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News
- Collectors under the spotlight at London Art Week
- Online plaform 1stdibs subscription fees rise by 42%
- Race for Jack London’s Olympic medals at auction
- Pendant is a cut above the rest on paper
- Rediscovered Phélypeaux bronze brings €2.4m in Paris
News Digest
- Pick of the week: Star role for George Woodall cameo appearance at Bonhams
- Bid Barometer: issue 2419
- Brontë manuscript comes home to Haworth museum
- Precious metals prices: issue 2419
- News In Brief – including the launch of a GoFundMe page to help challenge a court ruling on the Ivory Act
Auction Reports
- Cartier cigarette case and presentation trowels give echoes of the First World War at Cirencester auction
- George III trophy heads to South Africa
- Sèvres vase at Trevanion & Dean was ‘gift from French king’
- Sweet music in Macclesfield auction
- Not just cigarette cards but the packs too
- Sikh gem-set medal awarded £24,000 in specialist sale
- ART MARKET: St Ives influence strong in Lyon & Turnbull's London sale
- ‘Exceptional’ wartime sketches bring high demand at Dominic Winter
- Affordable art: Three works sold for under £3000 including a John Varley watercolour
- Collectors wake up to Michael Ayrton painting talent
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Indian bird life lost but now found
- New York and Houston outlined
- Photographic carte de visite portraits of Carson, Custer and ‘Our Willie’ sold in Dallas
- British and Irish book auctions: November 26-December 7, 2019
- Arctic sailing journey complete with sea monsters
Previews
- Previews: Up to £500
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Dealers’ Diary
- Iznik does it during London Art Week – collectors in focus at latest London gallery event
- Worcester wonders go to new homes after dealer event
- 5 Questions: Peter Harrison and Simon van Oostende
- The web shop window: Italian trompe l’oeil altar board panels
- Furniture for Christmas – dealer launches festive shopping event in Battersea
- Finnish Abstract artworks and all that jazz
- Philip Rundell silver dishes among sales at the west London winter staging of Olympia antiques fair
International
- Single sources boost traditional ceramics
- Henry Arnhold’s sale led by Meissen blue and white saucer dish at Sotheby's
- Starrs collection boosted by George Owen pieces for Royal Worcester
- Bow figures from a New York collector
- Bow blue and white pot from c.1750 exceeds estimate at Starr sale
- Starr's encaustic-ware amphora back on market a decade later
- Rare Staffordshire figure group bid to $19,000 at Stair Galleries
- Range of Wedgwood creamware sold at Stair auction
- Bidders sniff out early scent bottles at New York sales
Fairs & Markets
- Potter around this book fair
- Artist Gavin Turk to attend Vauxhall art fair
- 'Little Christmas Fair' is a real barn find
- Local antique dealers organise Christmas brocante in Suffolk
- Tree of Ages' roots now laid down in Surrey
- Little Vintage Lover Fairs heads back to the Norfolk coast
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