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Long records of ownership have become one of the crucial factors to get a good result in this market

Combining scholarly, decorative and evocative appeal, cameos and intaglios are a highly collectable area of the antiquities market.

Pictured here are examples of Georgian silverware coming up in two different auctions that are being staged in Los Angeles in June.

This massive Japanese silver incense burner weighing over 641 troy oz proved to be one of the major attractions in the silver and vertu sale held by Heritage (25/20/15% buyer’s premium) on May 16.

‘Sherlockian scholar’ is the term Potter & Potter (20% buyer’s premium) uses to describe Robert Hess.

Judging by the overall totals, the latest Modern and Contemporary art auctions at Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips in New York were something of a bump back to reality after the last two sales series posted the highest grossing totals on record.

An Egyptian polychrome sarcophagus panel from the Late Dynastic Period was one of the highlight sales at the recent TEFAF New York.

One of the top-priced lots in a recent sale held by CRN Auctions (22% buyer’s premium) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 23 was this work on paper by Alexander Calder (1898-1976).

The American artist Alex Katz (b.1927) is known for his large, brightly coloured and boldly delineated works.

Two of Jane Austen’s works, both from the same Wyoming collector’s estate, were stand-out lots in a May 11 sale held in Chicago.

One of the more remarkable results of recent weeks came in a May 3 sale at Freeman’s (26/21/15% buyer’s premium) of Philadelphia.

Fine clocks from a single-owner selection sell well into six figures in New York saleroom

Christie’s first major auction series since raising its buyer’s premium last month kicked off in New York offering Impressionist and Modern art.

Converse Auctions in Pennsylvania will be offering the clock collection of Willis R Michael (1894-1969) in its online auction on May 19.

Two Generations Collection was the title of an auction of automobilia and collectors’ cars amassed by a single family.

Following the sales series last October, Christie’s will offer a second instalment of works from the Ann and Gordon Getty collection in June.