Print issue 2556 (27 August 2022)
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News
- Rare Jacobite goblet receives an £8000 toast in Edinburgh auction
- British Art Fair sets out its fresh staging
- Life is grand with a string of contents sales
- Old Masters focus includes Kauffman
News Digest
- Pick of the week: Sketchbook strikes saleroom gold
- Bid Barometer: issue 2556
- Lot attracts high level of interest thanks to tempting Titanic lunch menu
- Precious metals prices: issue 2556
- News in Brief – including an Old Master self-portrait blocked from export
Antiquities
- Dealer Wace takes his shows on the road after gallery closure
- Roman marble busts from the Finches
- Egyptian visions in exhibitions
- Egyptian bronze figure of Isis offered in Salisbury auction
- On the zigzag trail
- 5 Questions: antiquities dealer Guy Rothwell
- Obituary: Jerome Eisenberg
Auction Reports
- Chinese Daoguang era ‘hundred boys’ vase takes £38,000 despite obvious condition issues and repairs
- Fourteen bidders eager for a slice of the illusion action
- The small world of Gamda toys
- Eyelashes help Sasha doll flutter to £1000
- Go batty about a brooch
- Sapphire-set owl makes five times estimate at Oxford sale
- I’ll definitely swap for a Billy Meredith…
- ‘Lisbon Lions’ link makes the difference to result
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Passenger’s unpublished account of pioneering round-the-world trip surfaces in a saleroom
- A true Colossus… among Sylvia Plath’s verses
- Have you got the guts to buy it?
- ‘First editions, second thoughts’ of notable names
- British and Irish book auctions: August 23-September 22, 2022
Old Masters
- OLD MASTERS: Market struggles with short supply
- Elusive Rembrandt impression sets second highest price for an Old Master print
- Brueghel the Younger makes merry among just 20 lots
- ‘Manner of Solario’ work ready for restoration project
- Gentleman now from ‘circle of de Critz’
- Mysterious master’s work last seen in 1934 brings strongest contest at Old Master series
- Portraits from one of Gloucestershire’s oldest landowning families to be offered at Chorley’s
- Angelica Kauffman paintings to be offered at Sworders
Dealers’ Diary
- An artist taught by Bomberg: London exhibition displays Leslie Marr paintings
- Contemporary works in demand at Cotswolds fair
Previews
International
- Old World works of art come fresh to Massachusetts saleroom
- Duplicate set: Plate from ‘Rutherford White House’ dinner service takes $1500
- Rare Tornek-Rayville dive watch emerges at Bonhams Skinner
- Henry Moore’s view of Justice offered in New Jersey
Fairs, Markets, Shops & Centres
- IACF relaunches Ally Pally fair
- Strong bookings for Grandma’s Attic fair in Winchester
- Beccles antique centre scores well so far
Letters
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Cover - Issue 2556