Print issue 2513 (16 October 2021)
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News
- Maiolica dish makes £1.04m impact at auction
- Battersea dealers delighted to be busy once again
- Manuscript missing for 30 years returns to Italy
- Versailles buys bust of royal surgeon
- Stanley Gibbons starts shared ownership for collectables
- London bidders taken on an aesthetic odyssey
News Digest
- Pick of the week: Follow the Hird for an Elizabethan extravaganza
- Bid Barometer: issue 2513
- Mourning glory: set of rings takes £31,000
- Precious metals prices: issue 2513
- News In Brief – including news of The Ulster Museum acquiring a portrait by James Tissot
Indian & Islamic Art
- On the shortlist: Asian Art in London award nominees
- Hund sculptures
- Life in the rainforest
- Krishna in child form
- Splendour and worship
- Shopping list of arms and armour
- Chinnery goes large
- Tiger goddess
- Jewels showcased in St James’s
- Best practice
- Gone fishing
- Shield life-saver
- Fringe benefit
- Fan of sculpture
- Stars and swirls
- Sunset over snowy mountains
- Portrait of power
- Burner as a bird
- Asian Art in London map: Indian & Islamic Art
Auction Reports
- Single-owner collection of insurance company badges forms intriguing part of Essex sale
- Famous tree, we presume
- ART MARKET: Hungarian reality and fantasy
- Look east for a duo of top performers
- Dancing peasants entrance bidders
- Rustic slice of life in the Croatian countryside
- Jewish portrait bought by Jerusalem bidder
Books, Maps & Works On Paper
- Go on a treasure hunt at Firsts
- Tale of Bedouin life roams into new London event
- The web shop window: Carlo Lasinio engraving
- US museum buys a van Overbeek
- Comic effects: Beano collecting highpoints
- Atlas pathfinder up at auction
- Great Exhibition in view
- Book of Hours from c.1390
- Houdini held upside down
- Body of work – large-scale anatomical atlas
- Near complete Visscher atlas on offer
- Time to buy a Bond film poster
- Pompeii focus in west London
- Pro-vaccination: Jenner work
- First things first for horror and fantasy
- Complete copy of the first folio atlas ever printed in the Islamic world
- And there’s Moore...
- A taste for travel from the Fox Pointe Manor Library
- 'Lovely' copy of George Eliot’s masterpiece
- Alexander Hamilton fascination
- First responder: physician's almanac
- Printed map pioneer appears in massive German auction
- Rare third edition of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol emerges
- Nuremberg curiosity in Glos sale
- Napoleon tries his English skills
- Social whirl: the Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie library
- The long read: an Arabic manuscript
- Exceptional copy of TS Eliot poem published in New York makes record
- Marilyn exercising – by Marilyn
- Plath and Hughes items with personal insights
- British and Irish book auctions: October 12-29, 2021
- Fairs calendar: Key books events in the UK and overseas
Previews
Dealers’ Diary
- Ede gaze falls on black glaze pottery
- Thompson’s opens third gallery
- New specialist at Jenna Burlingham
- 5 Questions: Furniture dealer Rowland Leach
International
Fairs, Markets & Centres
- How TV coverage and a nearby museum reopening boosted two antique centres
- Antiques at garden centres encourage growth
- Tiles speciality creates a hive of activity
- Ludlow fair is fully booked
Letters
- To ping or not to ping, that is the question
- Why I believe younger buyers need a reality check
- Derby vases at the double
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