Print issue 2458 (12 September 2020)
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News
- US tariffs on Chinese art take effect as New York auction series begins
- PFK art and antiques auctions close and Roberts moves to Mitchells
- Piamontini’s ‘ravishing detailed’ clay model discovered at Fife estate and triples estimate at Lyon and Turnbull
- Charles Ross Auctioneers: an update
News Digest
- Pick of the week: Bronze reflecting blossoming of Buddhism in China makes at £50,000 at TimeLine
- Bid Barometer: issue 2458
- Tom Cruise Top Gun helmet makes top price
- Precious metals prices: issue 2458
- News in Brief – including the British Museum buying a collection of Katsushika Hokusai drawings
Auction Reports
- Why the best was yet to come for Asian art
- Kiwi taxidermy quartet draw major interest at Windsor Auctions
- Coffee pot shows rising power of prosperous Liverpool
- Archangel plaque at Swan Fine Art could be much older than catalogued
- Chinese vases display varied styles of decoration
- Walking stick stand sold at Hampshire auction is a Black Forest beauty
- Royal Worcester plaque painters in the spotlight at Trevanion and Dean
- ART MARKET: Indian miniatures expand appeal as demand grows on the subcontinent
- Major general sought after by militaria fans
- Himalayan raja rises to £4600 when reoffered
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Cosmographica print pioneer
- Snail Syrup for anyone?
- Another Edison light bulb moment
- British and Irish book auctions: September 8-19, 2020
Previews
Dealers’ Diary
- Photographer Terry O’Neill put in the frame at Hampstead gallery
- Accessibility is central to oak dealer's relocation
- 5 Questions: art and antiques dealer Anthony Woodd
- Staffordshire history lesson comes via a postcard
- The web shop window: rare Bergman chess set
- I know that face… I think
International
- New York's Asian art auction series aims to keep the show on the road in wake of Covid and tariffs
- All hands on deck as French automaton emerges in Massachusetts
- Mintons plaque offered in Maryland auction
- Lancastrian lustre vase comes to Rago Auctions
- New Orleans auction offers George III Sheffield plated tea machine
- Humphry Repton first edition on landscaping features at North Carolina auction
- Japanese battery powered robot estimated at $60,000-90,000 at Morphy Auctions
- Tiffany ‘Bird on a Rock’ brooch flies in to Hindman's Chicago sale
- Oonagh Guinness portrait among highlights of auction of items from an Atlanta estate
- Garden seating selection offered at Freeman’s
- British and American studio ceramics consigned to Chicago sale
Fairs, Markets & Centres
- The power of positive thinking
- ‘You can never have too much folk art’
- Fleamarket back on Church Street
- First serving on Wimbledon grass
- Object lesson from Wimbledon fair: glass eyes
Letters
- Can anyone help with my Cedric Morris show search?
- Online catalogues ‘not so green’
- On the trail of Wedgwood Flaxman chess pieces to complete the set
Adverts
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