Furniture

The impact of Brexit on UK overseas trade has led one auction house to open a saleroom in the Netherlands.

A set of six George III giltwood side chairs made by Thomas Chippendale for Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire sold at Dreweatts on January 31.

North Yorkshire saleroom starts 2024 with 2600 lots offered over two weeks in four auctions

Mallams (25% buyer’s premium) got off to an early New Year start with a Country House auction.

Traditional antiques are very much still in demand, according to reports from dealers at Battersea’s winter Decorative Fair.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

A piece of furniture produced for the French king heads back to former repository now open to the public

Stair Galleries in Hudson, New York, will sell the remainder of the remarkable Ann and Gordon Getty collection in two forthcoming sales.

It was in the hope of saving on the huge sums spent procuring works of art from abroad that Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV’s minister of finance, began inviting craftsmen to work at the Gobelins royal manufactory on the outskirts of Paris.

A large collection of corkscrews and all things vernacular were major features of the two-day sale held by Wilkinson’s (20% buyer’s premium) in Doncaster.