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A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including news that the New York Met has bought a bowl from a UK dealer.

Among a number of Indian miniatures causing a stir at London sales this autumn was a painting of a camel and its rider.

New York’s Winter Show tempts exhibitors back across the Pond in January.

Guy Cooper set up his gallery earlier this year and holds an online exhibition of small Old Master pictures until December 24.

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

Edition of Shakespeare’s works from 1663 heads varied selection in Cambridge.

A single-lot sale on October 19 offered an illuminated Ashkenazic prayer book that realised a premium-inclusive $8,307,000 (£6,019,565).

A recently rediscovered life-size terracotta bust of San Lorenzo, c.1440, by early Renaissance sculptor Donatello stars at Colnaghi’s exhibition.

Art and antiques dealers were temporarily banned from sending items to certain European countries after a botched list was published by the Royal Mail.

Police are appealing for information following a theft of more than 400 pieces of jewellery, coins and watches from Adam Partridge Auctioneers.

One of York’s oldest bookshops is closing next year.

One of around 30 known medieval English folding almanacs, and one of only a few in private hands, sold for £95,000 (plus 20% buyer’s premium) at Tennants.

Chinese and Mughal jades believed to have been stolen more than four years ago are still at large and the family and police have made a plea for information as to their whereabouts.

The finest-known example of a New England shilling sold for £220,000 at Morton & Eden in London on November 26 (plus 20% buyer’s premium).

The World Chess Championship currently taking place in Dubai began on November 26 in familiar style.

The Rolex Deep Sea Special, with its remarkable bubble case capable of withstanding huge pressure, was created in the early 1950s to test just how deep a diving watch could go.

Grandma’s Attic Fairs is at the Five Rivers Leisure Centre in Salisbury on Sunday December 12 with up to 100 stalls selling antiques and collectors’ items.

On Friday, December 3, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $1773.50 €1569.88 £1335.27.

With interest in reclaiming ‘forgotten’ female artists on the rise in recent years, French Modernist painter Émilie Charmy (1878-1974) has been the focus of revived attention.