Print issue 2595 (03 June 2023)
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News
- Auction record for Tipu Sultan’s sword
- Art and antiques trade dismay as the Ivory Act is extended
- Is this a First Folio that I see before me sold at £6.25m?
- Stoclet Buddhist stele in high demand at auction
- Miniature masterpiece gold stater retakes title of the most expensive classical coin
- Latest Jennifer Lee top price at auction pushes studio potter close to Rie and Coper levels
- Silver Tompion clock is the ‘best in private hands’
News Digest
- Pick of the week: Cheesy does it for £45,000 Elizabethan manuscript at auction
- Bid Barometer: issue 2595
- Precious metals prices: issue 2595
- Get a taste of silver from the Colman collection coming to auction in Essex
- News in brief including Artist’s Resale Right (ARR) remaining in UK law
Auction Reports
- Furniture that created a ‘new language for woodworking’
- Silver owned by the 'Golden Ball' gambler who frittered away a fortune comes to auction
- Doulton delights packed in floor to ceiling
- Charity shop Chinese jars find at £20 sells for £46,000
- How Omega pottery became a part of the Bloomsbury Group story
- Chinese teapot with Dutch touch
- ART MARKET: Nelson portrait in ‘warts and all’ fashion generates an extraordinary bidding battle
- Naval artist and shipbuilder go into battle together
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Indian collection amassed by Kala Singh, aka Brian
- Conan Doyle celebrated in Chicago
- British and Irish book auctions, May 30-June 16
Previews
Dealers’ Diary
- Time for a weaving do: Asian art dealer celebrates Japanese bamboo art in latest exhibition
- Business booms as stars align for Cooper fairs
- The web shop window: An Edwardian table croquet set
- Art dealer Moore-Gwyn takes radical approach for latest exhibition
- 5 Questions with marine salvage specialist Mark Jameson of Trinity Marine
- Adrian Alan moves antiques gallery to Brighton
International
- Galizia heads a selection of ‘Old Mistresses’ on offer at Vienna auction
- Wooden netsuke achieve top prices at Viennese auction house
- Hungary's Munkácsy bid to more than three times estimate at Swiss auction
- German artist Scholz's 'scandalous' picture takes six-figure sum at auction
- Beckmann's depiction of friend’s family comes to Munich auction
- Franco-Turkish artist Hamdi Bey's 'fashionable' picture takes €1m at auction
- Member of French clockmaking dynasty to feature in German auction
- Expressionists emerge together
Auction Calendar
Fairs, Markets, Shops & Centres
- Sherborne Antiques Market full of success stories
- Picnic plans for dealers ahead of Arthur Swallow Fairs new Cirencester Park event
A Lawyer Writes
Letters & Opinion
- ATG Letter: Claims of money laundering and terrorism funding just don’t add up
- ATG Letter: Government should reconsider ill-thought-out ivory rules
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