Print issue 2541 (07 May 2022)
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News
- Snappy Dresser rewarded at £21,000
- Covid and data drive ticketing changes at fairs
- Xianfeng’s flask comes to auction
- Big funds raised for rediscovered mini Brontë
- Record for ‘MoMa’s’ Aalto smoking table
News Digest
- Bid Barometer: issue 2541
- Chinese export service still in the family since c.1755
- Pick of the week: Record price for an RAF Victoria Cross
- Precious metals prices: issue 2541
- News in brief – including a painting previously hung in the White House being offered at Christie’s
Feature
- AUTOMOBILIA AND PETROLIANA: Pump action at auction
- Shell posters sure to create interest wherever they sell
- Herry motors on at Antikbar
- Monaco Deco design
- Rolls-Royce ecstatic at sales figures
- Lalique mascots add a touch of glass
- Archer car mascot points way to luxury
- Stork flew from planes to cars
- Car badges make a statement at auction
- Heuer helps rally timing
- BP battered but still four figures
Auction Reports
- Pair of Windsor Chairs sets a furniture puzzle
- Canadian ‘Black Battalion’ memento sells at Dix Noonan Webb
- Sharpshooter targeted at Banbury sale
- Flying visit to New Guinea
- Kendall carved out a reputation for quality
- First light of neoclassicism
- ART MARKET: How bazaar – Roberts Cairo scene
- Softer side of the Newlyn community
- Cazabon winds his way back to Trinidad
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Description almost a book itself
- Acropolis comes into the fold
- UK and Irish book auctions: May 3-27, 2022
Previews
Asian Art
- Going global: A preview of the spring series of UK Asian art sales
- Lacquer discovery at Bonhams
- Kangxi famille noire vase offered at Sotheby’s
- Bingham collection at Olympia Auctions includes Tibetan ritual trumpet
- Meiji naturalism on show at Woolley & Wallis
- 'Heavenly' globe vase at Dreweatts
- Archaic bronze censer in Essex
- Qianlong-marked tazza at Roseberys
- Dragon bowl from collection of Admiral Robert Coote emerges
- Early Ming vase at Lyon and Turnbull
- Marks of a Jesuit
- Polish and Poise
- Kinkozan set
- Front cover lot reappears at Chiswick Auctions
- A qianjiang master at Frome auction
- From a client of Bluett’s
Dealers’ Diary
- Battersea Decorative fair to showcase Ukrainian art
- Haughtons' seminar back in physical form
- 5 Questions: Andrea Colapinto of 900 Art and Design
- The web shop window: 1940s railway sign
- Keep an eye on the return of this London event
International
- Three fairs, works on paper auctions and museum events add up to a busy week in Paris
- Christie’s auction includes rediscovered chapel designs
- Collector was not the retiring sort when it came to buying quality art
- Boilly turns on the water work
- Bloemaert all at sea
- New appointments including at Bonhams, Skinner and Freeman's
Fairs, Markets & Centres
- How Londoners got stuffed
- Well-presented stands essential at the park
- Hackney hopes for Pop Up Vintage Fairs
Letters
- Postage experience did not receive my stamp of approval
- Artist's Resale Right is big factor behind the UK's decline
- Let’s launch an Antiques Shop Day to promote trade
- Trade day at a fair is unfair to the private collector
- Let a ship take the strain to cut the stress
- Why are we paying high fees when services are curtailed?
- Memories of Cindy Mainwaring
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