Auctions

This rare 1880s Jean Roullet ‘Le Berger Watteau’ shepherdess with lamb automaton starred when the second part of one of the largest doll collections on offer in recent times went under the hammer.

Over the years, Cologne auction house Van Ham has achieved high prices for works by Raden Saleh Ben Jaggia.

While the market-defining sales of Asian works of art are now held in New York and Hong Kong, the UK still holds its own.

The Scottish sculptor Amelia Robertson Hill (1821-1904) was surrounded by artistic family members.

This large silver zoomorphic aquamanile Caquesseitão (a vessel designed for the ceremonial washing of hands at the table) will feature as a highlight of the May sale to be held by Veritas Art Auctioneers in Lisbon.

This impressive clock featured in the sale held by Dorset firm Busby (25% buyer’s premium) on April 18.

One of the highlights on the first day of the May 30-31 auction at Grisebach in Berlin is a collection of 33 works on paper from the collection of the one-time Cologne gallery owner Rudolf Zwirner.

Around 200 lots of clocks and watches feature in a strong section as part of a four-day sale

Practical campaign furniture is one of the stars as West Sussex event reaches its 10th anniversary

It has often been said that no other work of art encompasses the spirit of the Bauhaus more perfectly than Marianne Brandt’s tea-infuser or Teeextraktkännchen MT49, as it was officially called.

The German artist Gabriel von Max (1840-1915) was not only an accomplished painter but also a passionate follower of Darwinism.

To understand how European audiences viewed the Middle East in the 19th century, you could do worse than look at the body of work produced by Belgian artist Jan-Baptist Huysmans (1826-1906)*.

With very few exceptions, the French artist Victor Philippe Lemoine-Benoit devoted almost all of his painting career to one subject: hot-air balloons of the Montgolfière type.

Our selection of lots from six upcoming auctions

Venetian painter sometimes used studio assistants

Oil on canvas showing favoured subject of the artist takes top spot so far in UK sales outside London