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Qing vase

Bid Barometer: issue 2719

17 November 2025

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.

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Churchill fan wins a saleroom V for victory contest

17 November 2025

This small silver ‘V for Victory’ pendant made by the London firm of John Pinches Medallists for Cartier London is engraved Winston Churchill 1951-1955.

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Precious metals prices: issue 2719

17 November 2025

On Friday, November 14, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $4146.70 / €3589.59 / £3165.42

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Brooch on offer was given to bridesmaids at a royal wedding

17 November 2025

One of the eight York Rose brooches given by Prince Albert (later George VI) to the bridesmaids who attended his marriage to Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (later Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother) in 1923, will be offered at Noonans in Mayfair on November 25.

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Syrie Maugham’s chic sophistication shines through

17 November 2025

Newbury auction house Dreweatts (27% buyer’s premium) held a sale last month titled Syrie Maugham: A Family Collection, offering items from the interior designer and her descendants.

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Isaac Newton's ‘greatest intellectual stride’ strolls into a Swiss saleroom

17 November 2025

The books sale at Koller (25% buyer’s premium) in Zurich on September 17 was topped at SwFr250,000 (£237,250) by a first edition of the book Einstein described as “perhaps the greatest intellectual stride that it has ever been granted to any man to make”.

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Eurich takes great strides beyond the London salerooms

17 November 2025

A good sum for a painting by Richard Eurich (1903-92) at an auction outside London came at Mallams’ (27% buyer’s premium) latest Art & Music sale in Oxford.

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From Buckingham Palace vaults to saleroom highs

17 November 2025

Proving once again that fine tiaras associated with royalty and or aristocracy carry a financial premium, Lyon & Turnbull (26% buyer’s premium) sold the Airlie tiara on October 22.

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Henley event finds a new home

17 November 2025

Biannual fair shifts from riverside site to fresh venue five miles away at a historic country house

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Antiques Roadshow vase stars in saleroom at £125,000

17 November 2025

The renewed fashion for ancient bronzes during the Qing period reflected a confluence of scholarly interest, artistic expression and political strategy.

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LAPADA Berkeley Square Fair: Generational shifts in action

17 November 2025

Younger members of well-known dealer family firms set the pace at the latest LAPADA Berkeley Square Fair

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Javanese please: Items from the Indonesian island’s true golden age

17 November 2025

Jewellery shows great artistic and technical sophistication that catches the eyes of collectors

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Fascinating relics from captain killed at Trafalgar come to auction

17 November 2025

A musket ball-riddled handkerchief of a Royal Navy captain cut down at the Battle of Trafalgar stood out at a London sale, but it was a letter to his eight-year-old daughter also retrieved from his pocket that added a particularly poignant touch.

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Obituary: David Ker (1951-2025)

17 November 2025

David Ker, who has died aged 74, was an important and pioneering art dealer and larger-than-life figure, described as one of the most vivid upper-class characters of the last half century.

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Five questions with antique rug specialist Peter Pap

17 November 2025

Peter Pap is a specialist in antique rugs from the 19th century that were exported to the US and Europe from countries such as Persia, Turkey, Afghanistan and southern Russia.

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Lady Joceline’s tiara on offer in Dublin

17 November 2025

This late Victorian diamond tiara set with old mine, old European and old cut diamonds comes for sale at Adam’s in Dublin on December 2 by descent from Dermot Chichester, 7th Marquess of Donegall (1916-2007).

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Hoot if you are a Lalique car mascot worth £70,000

17 November 2025

Rare stalking owl catches the eye in Lewes as local vendor sells Lalique car mascots and advertising signs

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Artist famous for flower paintings but equally gifted at portraits and animals

17 November 2025

I much enjoy ATG's Art Market reports and would like to offer a small amendment and further biographical detail regarding artist Mary Dickinson (ATG No 2717).

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Ring deemed of ‘Tudor or Stuart’ origin rather than 18th century

17 November 2025

The unexpected highpoint of the sale at Potteries Auctions (25% buyer’s premium) in Staffordshire on November 7 – a sale otherwise dominated by 20th century collectable ceramics – was this high-carat gold signet or seal ring.

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News in brief including the most expensive ‘modern era’ European gold coin ever sold at auction

17 November 2025

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including a Ferdinand III (1608-57) 100 ducat gold making a record sum

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