Decorative Art

This category encompasses a wide range of three-dimensional antiques in a variety of different materials. It includes ceramics, glass and metalware (including silver and plate), medium to small size decorative objects such as tea caddies and dressing table sets.

Christie’s decorative arts sale

Christie’s relaunches decorative arts sales series

28 March 2023

Christie’s has relaunched its biannual auction series of decorative arts sales to run concurrently online in three cities: London, New York and Paris.

George III silver wine jug

The jug that jogs the memory: pair to wine jug found and then sold at same Yorkshire auction house

27 March 2023

The George III silver wine jug sold by Tennants in Leyburn in March is the exact pair to another the auction house offered on behalf of a different vendor two years ago.

Moorcroft vase

Pick of the week: Austere Moorcroft catches the eye

27 March 2023

The series of relatively austere wares made by Moorcroft in the 1930s are, today at least, not the factory’s most commercial designs.

Lucie Rie bowl

Lucie Rie bowl given to her cleaning lady is among five lots to watch this week

27 March 2023

With estimates from £300, here are five previews of items coming up at auction.

Maurice Lambert panel

Ocean liner Art Deco relief surfaces in saleroom

27 March 2023

When RMS Queen Mary was launched in 1934 it was not only at the cutting edge of technology but also featured some of the grandest interior designs ever seen aboard an ocean liner.

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Art reunited: two pairs of historical coincidences brought together at TEFAF

27 March 2023

A still-life and the vessel it depicts showed up at the same Maastricht fair unexpectedly this year, as did a painting and its study

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Royal Worcester purchases in the running

27 March 2023

Kenneth Ely (b.1926) had a first career as a jockey, apprenticed at the age of 15

Moorcroft Waving Corn pattern exhibition vase

Moorcroft exhibition vase stars in our pick of five auction highlights

24 March 2023

ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes a Moorcroft vase made for a 1937 exhibition that made over six times estimate in the West Midlands.

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Touch of Baxter detected on Flight, Barr & Barr dish

20 March 2023

An exceptional piece of Regency porcelain emerged for sale at Hannams (23% buyer’s premium) in Selborne, Hampshire, on February 21-24.

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Designer celebrated in the Soviet era

20 March 2023

This 9in (22cm) vase by the Lomonosov Porcelain Factory is signed and dated 1929 for Aleksey Vorobyevsky (1906-92)

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Tinworth’s take on the famous Polito’s Menagerie

20 March 2023

The most ambitious of all of the George Tinworth (1843-1913) mouse groups is the 10in (25cm) high clock case

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Significant Sèvres tazza makes 22-times estimate at Macclesfield auction

20 March 2023

The Adam Partridge (25% buyer’s premium) sale in Macclesfield on March 2 included a tazza from an important historical Sèvres service.

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Ceramics: Single owner collections galore grace the start of the year

20 March 2023

The first months of this year have featured a string of wide-ranging ceramics groups offered at auction

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Musician's Doulton Lambeth collection comes to Essex auction

20 March 2023

On May 16 Sworders is offering the first tranche of a fine collection of Doulton Lambeth ceramics.

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The European side of Du Boulay ceramics

20 March 2023

Anthony du Boulay (1929-2022) was well known as an expert on Chinese ceramics, although his interests were more wide ranging.

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Privateer tribute forms the earliest piece of documentary Lowestoft

20 March 2023

A broad mix of English and Continental pottery and porcelain was on offer in the latest dedicated ceramics sale held by Woolley & Wallis (25% buyer’s premium) in Salisbury, a fair slice of it contributed by single-owner collections.

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Stellar results from White Star liner designs

20 March 2023

Chipped to both elements, a Spode cup and saucer made for use on White Star liners sold online for £6000 at Richard Winterton (22% buyer’s premium).

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Rowlandson’s comic characters in ceramics style

20 March 2023

Estimated at just £50-80, a rare Staffordshire figure group sold online for £3000 at Clarke’s (25% buyer’s premium) in Semley, Dorset, on February 10.

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Marvellous Marshall vase emerges at Thomson Roddick

20 March 2023

At his best Mark V Marshall can give his one-time employer Robert Wallace Martin a run for his money

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News in Brief including the launch of a major Martin Brothers show

13 March 2023

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including an exhibition in the Cotswolds to mark 150 years since the inauguration of the Martin Brothers pottery

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