2020

With estimates from £600-3000 here are five previews of upcoming items this week.

The most popular stories on this website over the last week included news of a previously unrecorded marble bust, probably depicting Alexander the Great, selling for £320,000 at Adam Partridge.

Forget Harry and Megan’s public exploits and go back in time to explore the private life of historic royals at The Haughton International Seminar, which returns the summer.

Dominic Winter in South Cerney, Cirencester is anticipating a bidding battle next week for a finely modelled Hellenistic white marble figure of Aphrodite.

A sixteenth century double-handled maiolica albarello, bought by Mayfair dealer Sam Fogg in 2014, has been acquired by the British Museum.

ATG’s selection of hammer highlights this week includes a rare pair of Kangxi period blue and white ‘narrative’ dishes that made over 20-times estimate.

A new London branch of Messum’s will open in St James’s Bury Street this spring.

A lawyer acting for dealers and collectors bidding to have the Ivory Act 2018 overturned warned antique ivory owners they need to “prepare to sell quickly” if judges reject the legal challenge.

Sales at the recent Palm Beach Show included traditional items such as a previously unrecorded royal armorial charger from the early 18th century despite a new focus on contemporary work.

Dealers in Kensington Church Street are launching an event comprising a series of concurrent exhibitions.

Sotheby’s has moved its Modern Art evening sale and Contemporary Art evening and day auction to New York from Hong Kong following the spread of coronavirus.

This spring auction houses Dreweatts and Fellows plan events with interior decorators and designers Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler, Caroline Percy and architectural historian Oliver Gerrish.

A Hermès Birkin 2013 matte black Porosus crocodile handbag was hammered down at £19,000.

Antiquarian book dealer Hugh Rayner is putting out a call for more exhibitors at the Bristol Vintage Photograph Fair.

With estimates from €300-£8000 here are five previews of upcoming items this week.

The most popular stories on this website over the last week included news of a new museum in Plymouth buying the record-breaking Martin Brothers grinning crab.

A rare example of a newly discovered bronze by a French Renaissance sculptor will be making an appearance at the rostrum on April 1 in Paris.

A marble bust, probably depicting Alexander the Great, sold for £320,000 at Adam Partridge in Macclesfield today.

The final attempt by dealers and collectors to block the Ivory Act, taking place in the Court of Appeal early next week, will be live streamed on YouTube.

ATG’s weekly selection of hammer highlights this week includes an oil painting of bare knuckle Victorian boxers in Birmingham.