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Some 50 years ago, indeed prior to the beginning of my subscription with the ATG in 1971, I acquired this oval silver plaque, dateable to the late 18th/early 19th century on stylistic grounds, measuring 29 x 89mm and weighing 44gms, with a plain reverse.

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

As well as his usual commercial stand at Photo London this year, Robert Hershkowitz stages a special exhibition on French calotype.

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.

Theme of Firsts fair centres on works not being seen just as reading material but things of beauty

The latest regional event for members of the Society of Fine Art Auctioneers and Valuers (SOFAA) took place in a Somerset country home to preview a private collection of Oriental works.

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

There is a new fine art event in town this month as dealers unveil The Little London Art Fair.

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.

A vesta case decorated with a campaigning Suffragette is among the highlights at the Buxton Decorative, Antiques & Art Fair.

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

On page 29 of ATG No 2637 there was an incorrect version of an advertisement relating to stolen items.

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

When Matthew Adams started out as a dealer in the early 1980s, the constant cry from fellow dealers was “there are too many fairs”, he says.

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.