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The government is expected to announce that it will consult the antiques industry and other parties on the kind of proof that will be required to trade ivory pre-dating 1947, ATG has learned.

Alfies Antiques Market celebrated 40 years open for business last night with a soiree on the roof of their multi-storey antiques centre.

For gavel master Hugh Edmeades, remembering all the lots sold across a thirty-eight year career at Christie's could have been an impossible task if it were not for the fact he had kept a diary and written down everything he has ever sold.

Back in November 2015 Karl Rutterford declared himself ‘overwhelmed’ when he talked to me about the launch of his online vintage website – named after his then one-year-old son Ralph – with its emphasis on fairground art and branding.

Colnaghi, the venerable London Old Master dealership, will open their new gallery in St James’s next month.

A new Antiques for Everyone Fair is to launch in London in January 2017.

The market for antique ivory in France looks set to be paralysed by bureaucracy, a lawyer for dealer association Syndicat National des Antiquaires (SNA) has told ATG.

A new online auction platform featuring free listings and eight percent commission launched yesterday.

Fashion designer Anya Hindmarch's stylistic input helped Sotheby’s sell £1.8m at its latest contemporary sale.

Not many cabinets can have been owned by a pope and a king but a piece of furniture bought by the J Paul Getty Museum at Sotheby’s Paris can make that proud claim.

Environment minister Andrea Leadsom will tomorrow announce a full prohibition on the sale of ivory objects made after 1947, ATG has been told.

The Cotswold Auction Company have moved into a new permanent saleroom in Cirencester.

Auctioneers and dealers will have to provide proof that antique ivory is aged 70 years and older, according to media reports this morning.

SPECTACULAR sums were paid for Chinese ceramics devoted to tea drinking during last week’s Asian works of art sales in New York.

A D-Day Landings Omaha Beach flag is being offered at C&T Auctioneers on September 28.

A shake-up of the art lending market has been proposed by the Law Commission with eventual plans for an art assets register.

A pair of Queen Victoria's drawers sold for a record-breaking £16,250 at Christie’s South Kensington on September 14.

Carlton Varney, president of Dorothy Draper & Co and well-known US interior decorator, is set to open this year’s Irish Antique Dealers’ Fair.

A Fijian cannibal fork was sold at Duke’s in Dorchester for £7500 on September 16.

Two fresh to the market Edvard Munch prints are coming up for sale at Sotheby’s Prints & Multiples sale in London on September 27.