Latest News Articles by Roland Arkell
‘True masterpiece’ bowl brings a new auction high for studio potter Lucie Rie
18 December 2023The market for Lucie Rie ceramics continues to reach new heights.
Pick of the week: Scientist made his living as a painter
18 December 2023The most remarkable result at Cheffins’ Fine Art Sale in Cambridge was provided by a group of four ‘English School’ plumbago on vellum portrait miniatures.
Reminder of Rennie Mackintosh’s Suffolk sojourn
18 December 2023A group of Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) watercolours and drawings were sold on behalf of the Glasgow Art Club at Lyon & Turnbull’s (26% buyer’s premium) Design since 1860 sale in Edinburgh.
Collector Interview: Dedicated to the etchings of the Detmold twins
18 December 2023Based on his own 50-year collecting odyssey, Iain MacPhail has privately published a hardback catalogue raisonné of the etchings created by the prolific Victorian and early 20th century book illustrators Charles Maurice and Edward Julius Detmold. Here he talks to ATG about his collecting passion.
Regency sofas with a rich provenance
18 December 2023The Fine & Decorative Interiors sale at The Pedestal (25% buyer’s premium) included a pair of Regency white painted and gilt sofas with a rich provenance.
Copeland dinner service came from Lowther sale
18 December 2023There were many massive English country house sales in the 20th century but the largest by volume was the contents sale at Lowther Castle during April, May and June 1947.
Bidders display passion for a Holy Land panel
18 December 2023Mother of pearl and olivewood devotional objects were made in Jerusalem in large quantities as tourism to the Holy Land took off in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Brooch was ‘gift from Duke and Duchess of Windsor’
18 December 2023The sale at Young’s (25% buyer’s premium) in Farnham, Surrey, on November 25 included jewels and objects of vertu with royal provenances.
McWilliam sculpture reflects troubled times in Northern Ireland
18 December 2023A bronze from Frederick Edward McWilliam’s (1909-92) Women of Belfast series of sculptures sold for £37,000 at Halls (24% buyer’s premium) on December 6.
Smoking causes healthy results: tobacco related items
18 December 2023Corporate collection of British American Tobacco includes choice antique items related to the habit
English table clock stars in our pick of five auction highlights
15 December 2023ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes an extremely rare ebony veneered English table clock signed for Ambrose Gardner that more than doubled its estimate at auction.
Indian and Egyptian travel photo album takes sensational £135,000
11 December 2023An impressive result emerged at Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood on December 5 when a travel album titled The Ramblings and Adventures of an Indian Officer was knocked down at £135,000.
Pick of the week: Sculpture by 3D printing pioneer soars above estimate at Chiswick Auctions
11 December 2023It was around 1860 that the trained artist François Willème (1830-1905) began to experiment with photography as a way to create sculpture.
Ashbee name is key to piano case appeal
11 December 2023A recently rediscovered version of one of the best-known Guild of Handicraft designs is up for sale at Sworders.
Banksy screenprint with personal dedication is among five lots to watch this week
11 December 2023With estimates from £1000, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week.
Previews: issue 2622
11 December 2023Our selection of lots from seven upcoming UK and Irish auctions
Malczewski: Polish painter with a strong sense of self
11 December 2023Trained at the Krakow School of Fine Arts as well as the Paris École des Beaux Arts, Jacek Malczewski (1854-1929) is credited for the rise in popularity of symbolism in late 19th and early 20th-century Poland.
Sale day is May day for this German beaker
11 December 2023The small German beakers known as monatsbecher (‘month beakers’) were made in sets of a dozen: one for each month of the year.
Eye-witness account of Captain Cook’s death
11 December 2023Held by the same private New England family since 1792, a copy of 'A Journal of Captain Cook’s Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean' complete with its map came for sale at Bonhams Skinner (28/26/20% buyer’s premium).