Print issue 2425 (18 January 2020)
View more print issuesTable of Contents
News
- Pick of the week: Ingenious Jupe’s expanding dining table takes £80,000 in New Year opener
- Money laundering: art market must begin compliance
- McAlpine signs stolen
- Bonhams opens its handbag department
- Sauce tureens serve up early highlight at The Mayfair Antiques and Fine Art Fair
- Chinese tariffs ‘a disincentive for anyone selling or buying in the US’ says Sotheby’s
- Luba staff brings New Year cheer at Gildings’ auction
- Elstob moves to permanent space in Ripon
News Digest
- Bid Barometer: issue 2425
- Halls to auction 400 works from Lloyds Bank collection
- Precious metals prices: issue 2425
- News In Brief – including two purchases by the British Museum
Feature
- SILVER: Christie’s sells David Little's pre-civil war silver collection
- The tale of the Warwick vase told in many sizes
- Electroplated cups marked for Evan Jones of Sydney turn up in Hampshire
- Remarkable mustard pots from Shennan collection turn heads at Evesham sale
- Cups from the Spetchley Park kunstkammer
- Norwegian silver brudekrone pays a visit to Canterbury
- Performing elephant silver novelty sells well above predictions
- Candlesticks light up Bruges sale
- Youghal basting spoon draws interest in Salisbury
- Hastings silver leaves its native Norfolk
- Pugin’s christening gift draws strong interest
- Silver coffee pots: a selection of hammer highlights
- Novelty silver pin cushions take flight
- The bell tolls for two prize silver porkers
- Medieval drinking vessel takes £4400 at Mitchells
- Dresser’s genius brings happy returns
Auction Reports
- ART MARKET: Old Masters – it’s a world of finite resources
- Affordable art: Three works sold for under £3000 including an Eric Ravilious print
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Sales reach Olympic heights
- British and Irish book auctions: January 14-February 27, 2020
Previews
Dealers’ Diary
- Discover a Battersea wonderland as Decorative fair goes for a theme in homage to the illustrator of Lewis Carroll’s work
- The web shop window: A gold repoussé sewing etui
- Hogarth shows the sleazy side of life
- London Antique Rug and Textile Art Fair saddles up for the 10th time
- 5 Questions: Carpet and textile art dealer Owen Parry
- US in the spotlight: Winter Show, Master Drawings and ceramics fair coming up
- New York Antique Ceramics Fair offers transatlantic treats
- Drawings are streets ahead
International
- Versailles steps in for Sabine cast
- Gérard emerges out of the shadow of Fragonard
- Exhibitors explain BRAFA fair’s long-lasting appeal
Fairs & Markets
Letters and Backpage
- Our Swiss scene ‘painted by a Suffragette’
- Birmingham also has a fine Orazio Gentileschi
- Obituary: Porcelain restorer Ian Norman
- Obituary: Antiques dealer Richard Brown
Adverts
Cover - Issue 2425