Gloucestershire

The vast majority of Georgian-era Channel Islands silver baluster mugs are of a pint or half-pint capacity.

‘Substantial’ was certainly the description to use when it came to an archive related to the Barrington family of Beckett Hall, Shrivenham, Oxfordshire.

She was the first female broadcaster to be heard on Radio 1 and the only journalist to accompany the Beatles during a four-day coach trip when they filmed their Magical Mystery Tour TV special.

An album of watercolour studies of Ottoman ceramics that connects two of the British collectors of the early 20th century raced away from its estimate at Dominic Winter in Gloucestershire.

Pictured here are two fine 19th century presentation copies that, unexpectedly, topped sales in South Cerney and Cambridge in October.

Wide-ranging items from Christopher Foyle of bookshop fame generate a white-glove sale in Gloucestershire

Hugely decorative, impeccably provenanced and selling at an impressive sum, a pair of moulded relief panels were another of autumn’s Coade stone stars

Futurist and Cubist feline design figures higly in an extensive single-owner collection of ceramics

Kinghams (25% buyer’s premium) had held its inaugural Silver & Objects of Vertu sale on September 8.

While its existence was known, the whereabouts was a mystery until a routine house valuation

The sale at Moore Allen & Innocent on October 11-12 includes a series of personal items relating to William Duke of Clarence, later William IV (1765-1837).

Three-inch globes were mostly sold as pocket globes, typically as a terrestrial globe contained within a ray-skin case with the celestial gores for the heavens pasted inside.

Among the Modern British prints generating interest at auction this summer was a copy of Edward Bawden’s (1903-89) linocut 'The Road to Thaxted'.

Wotton Auction Rooms has a new ownership structure as Joseph Trinder re-joins the business.

Anthropomorphic bird jars are typically associated with the work of the Martin Brothers in Southall, London.

A handsome portrait with a princely provenance was among a group of intriguing Old Masters offered at a Gloucestershire saleroom

By the mid-18th century, as the fashion for the pannier dress reached its peak, some women wore dresses measuring 7ft (2.13m) wide.

Dated and inscribed and royal portrait subjects are the most desirable classes of early delftware

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.