Print issue 2456 (29 August 2020)
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News
- Antiques dealer's French imperial naval eagle soars at auction
- Online antiques degree course is reinstated
- Bonhams scales down Scots sales
- Dealer’s kitchen antiques collection finds new home
- £17,000 Martinware tortoise emerges from hibernation
News Digest
- Pick of the week: Disc-end spoon discovery scoops £21,000
- Bid Barometer
- Statues surface from sunken garden site after decades in the undergrowth
- Precious metals prices: issue 2456
- News in Brief - including a Madrid gallery selling major works to Texan museum
Auction Reports
- The Mouseman in his prime
- Carving much mightier than a mouse
- Bayonet axed for being costly is now highly valauble
- Batavian box gives buyer something to chew on
- Politicians on the saleroom menu
- Bottle vase supplies a £55,000 Chinese surprise
- Politician proves influential in the antiques world
- Sphinx flies in black glass
- Five O’Clock means it is time for Belleek
- Bronze deity makes a jumbo price
- ART MARKET: Even Old Masters have to wait
- Bonhams sticks to early offering
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Scottish play opens in NY
- Thomson takes pride
- Golden oldies: abbey archive and penitential work for preachers
- Through the Glasgow looking glass
- Comic effect
- British and Irish book auctions, August 25-September 12, 2020
Previews
Dealers’ Diary
- Hurt shows his herd instinct
- Lifelong friends paired up at Eames
- 5 Questions: Phil Mires of PM Antiques & Collectables
- The web shop window: marriage casket
International
- The four seasons in one day
- Kangxi at Kendzia
- Centrepiece of attention
- Carry on bidding
- Parkland teapot
- Japanese face armour
Fairs, Markets & Centres
- We hope toys come back in play
- Robot paws: the new look for PBFA book fairs
- More stalls welcome at Windsor market
- GNB aims to be back in Brentwood in November
Letters & Opinion
- ATG LETTER: National Trust specialist roles under threat
- ATG LETTER: Charles Selby - estate called Yearle not farm named Earl
- ATG LETTER: Chelsea is lovely too!