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The primary draw to a sale at Roland Auctions (30% buyer’s premium) was a series of lots benefiting Columbia University.

Demand for Japanese works was first hit by the so-called ‘Lost Decade’ that followed the collapse of the Japanese economy in 1991. However, changes in fashion, taste and legislation have also impacted prices.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works on paper sale

ATG’s pick of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com, featuring both the highest prices over-estimate and the top prices paid online

Vase is thought to be from a group that share a provenance to the 1908 Japan-British Exhibition

A picture of a carriage horse by a once nearly forgotten animal painter is one of the stand-out offerings at the Pavilions of Harrogate Decorative, Antiques & Art Fair.

A recent sale at Whittons (21% buyer’s premium) in Honiton, Devon, included this Meiji or Taisho (1912-26) vase by the Ando Company.

According to the Greeting Card Association, the UK spend on Valentine’s Day in 2024 was more than £51m with around 25 million cards sent.

A recent item on BBC Antiques Roadshow focused on a collection of stereoscopes, some dating to the 1850s.

Much-loved West Yorkshire antiques dealer Roger Smith passed away at Airedale hospital on Friday, January 16, after a short illness. He was 79.

Antiques dealers have described the Ivory Act as a “vast amount of expensive, time-consuming red tape” which has, for one, “taken away 50% of annual turnover”.

Norfolk auction house TW Gaze has secured permission to sell an Edo period ivory netsuke in the spring.

The collection of art and books amassed by one of Britain’s most influential critics of the post-war era, the late John Russell Taylor (1935-2025), has been consigned to west London saleroom Olympia Auctions.

American decorators and buyers were in abundance on the first day of the winter edition of The Decorative Fair in Battersea Park this week.