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Cabinet result runs Chinese charger close in Exeter
13 August 2018It’s a rare sale these days at which an English furniture standard challenges quality Chinese pieces for price, but the top end of the trade certainly rated a 6ft 3in (1.9m) William and Mary walnut and featherbanded bureau cabinet offered by Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood (21% buyer’s premium).
Huanghali heads to high popularity
13 August 2018Just as fine English mahogany is selling below par, Chinese furniture, particularly in the desirable huanghuali hardwood, is booming.
Bird brains: saleroom sells large African taxidermy dioramas
13 August 2018As both a collecting and a decorating sphere, taxidermy is one of the major growth areas over the past decade.
Trade buyers shine in a heatwave
13 August 2018Private bidders were overtaken as dealers found warmth in the best traditional furniture and chattels offered at auction.
Saleroom selection: Dales and Cotswolds highlights
13 August 2018A selection of highlights from the Chorley's auction on July 24-25 and the Tennants sale on July 21 (also see main Auction Reports story this edition).
Ivory: trade plays a waiting game
06 August 2018“I would say in the short term it hasn’t put buyers off but I don’t have a crystal ball so I don’t know what the future will hold.” Auctioneer Henry Meadows’ take on the forthcoming ivory ban will be shared by many a regional auctioneer in the wake of summer sales.
Eighteenth century armadillo that made it alive to Britain
06 August 2018A 3 x 5in (7cm x 13cm) miniature watercolour on ivory offered for sale at Toovey’s (plus 24.5% buyer’s premium) in Washington, West Sussex, recalls a small but significant moment in the history of British zoology.
Indo-Portuguese popularity surge
06 August 2018Ivory frames to this 18th century wooden box, below, with tortoiseshell panels, did nothing to hold back bidding on currently hugely popular Indo-Portuguese material.
Picnic basket serves up luxury
23 July 2018A coveted lot from the silver sale at Woolley & Wallis (25% buyer’s premium) in Salisbury on July 17 was an Edwardian Drew’s ‘Patent and Registered’ En Route picnic basket.
Essex sale brings many happy returns
16 July 2018Celebrating 10 years of sales at Sworders’ (23% buyer’s premium) custom-built auction house (the firm has actually been going since 1782), chairman Guy Schooling was in a justifiably buoyant mood.
Saleroom selection: under £1000 at Sworders' anniversary sale
16 July 2018In terms of lot numbers, the major single contribution to Sworders’ anniversary sale (see main Auction Reports this edition) on June 19-20 was the estate of the late Annabelle Comery, an inveterate and wealthy collector who had lived on Alderney in the Channel Islands.
Result for antique tables shows granny's wisdom
16 July 2018“My granny used to say, if you get stuck sell the French table,” the vendor told Harrogate auctioneer Elizabeth Pepper-Darling.
Grand Prix car in garden shed
16 July 2018Found in a garden shed during a house clearance, this unrestored version of a classic c.1950 pedal car, below, attracted bidders online, on the phones and in the Wolverhampton rooms of Cuttlestones (17.5% buyer’s premium) on June 22.
Cellarettes will stay together
16 July 2018Entered from the same consignor, two c.1810 mahogany cellarettes were offered singly, rather than as a near pair by Mallams (20% buyer’s premium) at Abingdon. However, after two centuries, they will remain together after selling to the same private buyer on the phone.
Russian items bear up at auction
16 July 2018Irish silver was popular at Adam’s (20% buyer’s premium) in June – see ATG next week – and Irish furniture did well enough, with a c.1830 serpentine side table with marble-and-malachite top getting away at €8000 (£7000).
Charles Rennie Mackintosh teaspoon from Glasgow commission sells in Derbyshire
16 July 2018Four days after fire gutted the Glasgow School of Art designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, this silver-plated teaspoon, below, designed by the great man was offered by Derbyshire auction house Hansons (20% buyer’s premium).
Final flicker of a Fulham dealership
02 July 2018It was the last flickerings of the dynasty which took salvage from the demolition site and put it back into the drawing room.
All fired up at ‘more affordable’ prices
02 July 2018Bids of £100 and upwards bought bidders a history of the English hearth and home among the Crowther lots at Cheffins on June 13-14, where 80% of the lower-priced items went to private buyers.
Desk style back in favour
02 July 2018An Edwardian Carlton House satinwood desk of the type which was once a best-seller at auction, but an early casualty of the furniture slump, was back in favour at the Hartleys (17.5% buyer’s premium) summer sale in Ilkley.
Tailor-made to fit into Liss selection
02 July 2018The Meissen model of Count Bruhl’s Tailor was a major attraction at Hampshire auction house Jacobs & Hunt (26% buyer’s premium).
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