Print issue 2514 (23 October 2021)
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News
- Elephant in the room: an exceptional clock
- Henry Moore heads strong Mod Brit showing
- Gérôme comes to auction after Fake or Fortune? probe
- Reset and refresh time as dealers discuss the future at the LAPADA Conference
- ‘Poohsticks’ bridge will return to Hundred Acre Wood after auction
News Digest
- Pick of the week: Bidders ponder riddle of the Sphinx statues
- Bid Barometer: issue 2514
- British studio ceramics feature in US collection coming to auction
- Precious metals prices: issue 2514
- News In Brief – including news of the sale of the Fabergé collection of the late Harry Woolf
East Asian Art
- Eastern promise: Asian Art in London award nominees announced
- DEALER PREVIEWS: Incense burner topped by a dog and ball
- Geometric furnishing fabric
- Technical masterpiece that emerged in the Song and Yuan dynasties
- Take to the flaw: a jade ewer
- Rare example of vases dated to a particular year
- From print form to three dimensions
- Hare-themed Ming incense burner
- Good times in a boat artwork combines tradition and modernity
- Sensitive carving shown on bronze head of Buddha
- Human body and a horse’s head in harmony
- AUCTION PREVIEWS: highlights from November UK sales of Chinese, Japanese and south-east Asian works of art
- From the field marshal’s collection
- Famille rose fish bowls in the swim of things
- Dish boasts Augustus the Strong provenance
- Ming mythical beast plays the weighting game
- Frome saleroom makes debut appearance
- Why collector Bohman became Bowman
- Provenance to Parry collection
- Not one but two sales in west London
- Family values: the Ezekiel collection
- Northern Song bought in Hong Kong
- Lectern took musical inspiration
- Woodblock print sails in to south London
- Netsuke makes a stand
- Trading places: Japanese lacquer cabinet made for the Western market
- Java bronze depicts a figure of wisdom
- Cockatoo perches on a Meiji vase
- Japanese auctions trio to be staged by Sotheby's
- Dublin auction highlights include École des Beaux-Arts de l’Indochine work
- Late Chinese imperial saucer dish and Qing bow case and quiver emerge in west London
- Daoguang famille rose ‘medallion’ bowls pledge prosperity and longevity
Auction Reports
- From Mr Wong of Cat Street
- Charles I makes a return in embroidery form
- Maori pendant boosted by fine notable provenance
- Auction full of West Country wonders
- Dapper dummy made in Austria, brought to UK, now heads to US
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Records and recipes for success
- Pullman’s first haunt
- Group lot with a temperance licence to thrill
- Tolkien signature discovery boosts Hobbit value
- Uncle Brook created real flights of fantasy for kids
- British and Irish book auctions, October 19-November 6, 2021
Modern British Art
- Sex education: female artist focus at London auction
- How a studio sale can transform the market
- Prints trigger Rego’s imagination
- ‘Exceptionally rare’ Tippett works at auction
- Barns-Graham personal collection on offer
- Whone works in demand, whether Glasgow or Yorkshire
Previews
Dealers’ Diary
- Bath: fair with a friendly vibe
- Bronze stands out at Battersea fair
- Vote of confidence for St James’s with Asian art dealers moving to the area
- The web shop window: a Japanese pipe case
- 5 Questions: Steve and Kerry Amies of Track 21 Interiors
International
- Stonemasons struck gold in house discovery
- Sherlock Holmes on the comeback trail
- Breguet astronomical quarter repeating watch
- Cuffs that could not hold Houdini
- Mirror is Printz charming
- Schwitters in the mix
- Wiseman joins Bonhams
Fairs, Markets & Centres
- Go vintage in Leeds with fresh fashion event
- PE teacher leaps to pop-up antiques shop
- Textiles take Somerset centre stage
- Organiser back in the running
- Oxfordshire fair postponed
The Back Page
- A LAWYER WRITES: Repairs can be a nasty shock at the end of a lease
- Obituary – Simon Owers (1965-2021)
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