Latest News Articles by Roland Arkell
Clarice Cliff topper
25 March 2024The highest auction price for Clarice Cliff for some years was posted on March 14 when an 18in (46cm) ribbed charger in the Applique Etna pattern sold for £18,500 (plus 26% buyer’s premium) at Fieldings.
A product of his time but Bugatti’s fantasies were all his own
25 March 2024In 1902, while visiting stands at the Esposizione Internationale d’Arte Decorativa Moderna in Turin, the Queen of Italy congratulated Carlo Bugatti on his ‘Moresque’ style of furniture. He reportedly replied, “You are mistaken, majesty, this style is mine!”
Third Antiques Roadshow-discovered Burges brooch sells at auction
22 March 2024A brooch by the great Victorian designer and architect William Burges, found with the help of the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow, has sold for £9500 at Leicestershire auction house Gildings.
“Three monumental sculptures with monumental prices to boot”
21 March 2024Three over life-size Roman portrait busts with an 18th century provenance to Cobham Hall in Kent have sold for a combined £1.26m at Lyon & Turnbull.
Napkin contract that signed a 13-year-old Lionel Messi to Barcelona FC comes to auction
20 March 2024What is probably the world’s most famous napkin – the document that secured the services of a young Lionel Messi to Barcelona FC – comes to auction at Bonhams.
Etna charger erupts at Clarice Cliff auction
18 March 2024Last sold in 1994, a well-known Newport Pottery promotional piece brings £18,500 in Stourbridge.
Pick of the week: Poster recruiting Jewish women to the war effort triples estimate at auction
18 March 2024Second World War posters recruiting British and American women to the war effort are a familiar sight at auction.
Charles Darwin presentation copy of On the Origin of Species is among five lots to watch
18 March 2024With estimates from £800, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week.
The George Withers auction: ‘I knew this wouldn’t come round again’
18 March 2024An auction house has existed in the Dore & Rees premises, a Victorian gothic building on Vicarage Street, Frome, since 1868.
Marathon Withers collection sale brings £1.28m rewards
18 March 2024“He stored everything like Russian dolls, everything packed away into something else."
Travel tales by Emily Eden told in art and words
18 March 2024Sketches and journal by Emily Eden relate to her life in the UK then journey to the subcontinent
Fang head shows bite for a new tribal record
18 March 2024A new record for African or Oceanic tribal art was set at Christie’s in Paris as part of the sale of the remarkable Barbier-Mueller collection.
New benchmark for tribal art as Fang head makes €12.6m at Christie’s
14 March 2024A new record for African or Oceanic tribal art was set at Christie’s in Paris as part of the sale of the remarkable Barbier-Mueller collection.
Roman portrait busts highlight Lyon & Turnbull’s first ancient art auction
12 March 2024Three over life-size Roman portrait busts with an 18th century provenance linked to Cobham Hall in Kent come for sale at Lyon & Turnbull this month.
A race suit worn by Sir Stirling Moss is among five lots to watch
11 March 2024With estimates from £1500, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week.
Teapot displays dual combination of Doccia porcelain technique
11 March 2024Ceramics historian cited this item to show how two types of decoration were used in combination
Simple style but 1950s watches can be high tech
11 March 2024Beneath the simple ‘1950s dress watch’ styling, the Jaeger LeCoultre Geophysic hides a lot of post-war tech.
Regency beauties: New York auction offers pair of Lawrence portraits
11 March 2024Two portraits of Regency beauties by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) come for sale at Cottone Auctions in Geneso, New York, on March 20. Both come by descent from by the Buffalo industrialist Colonel Charles Clifton (1853-1928) who paid huge sums for them in the early 1920s.