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Antiquarian Books Art Market Auction Previews Auction Reports Book Reviews Coins and Medals Comment Dealers Diary Decoration and Design Exhibitions & Dealers Fairs News International Letters London Selection Museum News Objects in Focus Overseas Events Stolen Technology Wine records 1 to 10 of 42   [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10] Next Last    Not a flying saucer… but not far off Objects in Focus - 31 August 2010 IT looks like a flying saucer, and to those viewing it on the monastery wall in Verona where it had hung since the Middle Ages, it can have had hardly less of an impact. read more >> An object lesson in embellishment Objects in Focus - 23 August 2010 THE Viennese mahogany commode, pictured here at the top, has undergone a remarkable transformation since it sold along with its companion pair at auction in 1993 as part of the Thurn and Taxis sale. read more >> Hausburg cabinet wins object of the year Objects in Focus - 14 June 2010 WINNER of the Country Life-LAPADA Object of the Year, announced last week at the London International Fine Art Fair at Olympia, was the so-called Hausburg cabinet belonging to Kensington Church Street dealers Butchoff Antiques. read more >> Packaging makes all the difference in Star Wars market Objects in Focus - 01 June 2010 MOST Star Wars aficionados are familiar with the story of the Flintshire pensioner who bought 20 Palitoy action figures for 49p each in 1978 and sold them at Stockton-on-Tees toy specialists Vectis for a small fortune in 2003. read more >> Wallis of Louth heads home Objects in Focus - 29 April 2010 IN his day the work of the Lincolnshire woodcarver Thomas Wilkinson Wallis (1822-1903), who set up business in Louth in 1843, was favourably compared with that of the most famous English woodcarver of all, Grinling Gibbons (1648-1721). read more >> Quaritch bookcases make £22,000 Objects in Focus - 15 February 2010 IT is in the nature of display cabinets not to stand out. By definition they are unobtrusive vehicles intended to take a back seat to their contents. read more >> Stalag Luft III’s original scriptwriters Objects in Focus - 01 February 2010 A PENCIL and watercolour sketch showing men at work on a celebrated escape tunnel was a major attraction in a log or record compiled in 1943-45 by a Scottish P.O.W. sold by Lyon & Turnbull of Edinburgh for £3200 on January 13. read more >> A warrior’s £19,500 battle cry Objects in Focus - 04 January 2010 FOUR centuries of contact with the North American continent – exploration, trade, settlement, war and missionary activity – mean that, just occasionally, spectacular Native American art objects are found in the United Kingdom. read more >> Lear’s nonsense drawings sold in Chichester Objects in Focus - 26 October 2009 THE original drawings that Edward Lear made for his 1846 A Book of Nonsense are now rare, and those that exist are for the most part held in institutional collections. read more >> Bonhams unveil the greatest classical discovery since the Portland Vase Objects in Focus - 19 October 2009 ATG columnist Richard Falkiner has hailed the Roman cameo glass vase which has been unveiled by Bonhams as “the greatest classical find since the Portland Vase”. read more >> records 1 to 10 of 42   [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10] Next Last

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