Print issue 2499 (03 July 2021)
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News
- London dealer hails victory in six-year legal battle over St James’s lease
- German all-time auction record: Sino-Tibetan bronze takes €9.5m bid at Nagel
- Covid easing delays impact event planning
- Duke’s launches ‘collection care service’ with new role
- Italy seeks to open its art market with export threshold changes
News Digest
- Pick of the week: £220,000 for enigmatic faces of the Interregnum
- Bid Barometer: issue 2499
- Mudge Green stands out in Taylor clock sale
- Precious metals prices: issue 2499
- News In Brief – including Aaron Dean joining Adam Partridge
Feature
- JEWELLERY: Marlborough gems strike gold again with £48,000 Nathaniel Marchant intaglio at Christie's
- How Cartier still shone despite the thrifty financial times
- Boucheron bought direct from the Bond Street shop
- Liver bird brooch made as a wartime order
- Colour and texture are key to Kashmir sapphire appeal
- Family history lifts Cartier brooch to £120,000
- Heigh-ho, off to sale we go
- Archaeological revival jewellery comes to summer auctions
- Happy birthdays for four generations
- Brooches ready to catch the eye
Auction Reports
- Collector's guests at Georgian-themed dinners turn out for dispersal at Suffolk auction
- Wonderful ways to wine and dine at Suffolk sale
- Tribal highlights: mask and figure at Woolley & Wallis
- Rare Steiff ‘hot-water’ bottle bear makes special appearance
- Football history-making stopwatch sold in Birmingham
- ART MARKET: John William Godward oil is latest in a run of strong prices
- Wardle waxes lyrical with classical theme
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Marketing – Middle Ages style
- Defective plan of New York still in demand
- Catalogues sell for six-figure sums
- British and Irish book auctions: June 29-July 9, 2021
Previews
Dealers’ Diary
- Three long-standing dealerships hold shows to mark major anniversaries in 2021
- Lyons debut in sculpture park
- 5 Questions: modern art dealer Liberté Nuti
- The web shop window: Surrealist picture by Eileen Agar
- Duchess daughters reunited via dealer and saleroom
- Sixteen new members boost US association
- New faces at Colnaghi and Peter Harrington
- East to west is a cool move for dealer Phil
International
- Painting in German collection now confirmed as work by Italian artist Spada
- Icon overpainting fails to deter bids
- How De Stijl shaped Schmidt’s ideas
- Scroll painting given to a politician makes eight-times estimate in Zurich
- Brazilian ‘Patek Philippe’ triples estimate in Swiss auction
- Brus sets Austrian Contemporary artist record
- Exquisite silver from dealer’s collection offered at Lempertz auction
- Bench owned by Dutch notables emerges in Stuttgart sale
- Marble Roman river god offered in Munich
- Early avant-garde scene offered in German auction
- Oak chair designed by Hoffmann for Klimt's studio appears at Vienna sale
Fairs, Markets & Centres
- Dealer and ex-auctioneer join forces to develop Dorset business
- Updates on three UK fairs scheduled for July 2021
- Talking about Dorking brocante
- Numbers rising at Charing Cross Collectors’ Market
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