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Dealer and collector Keith Baker has been in a long-running dispute with his beloved dog Belle over who gets to read Antiques Trade Gazette first each Tuesday.

The UK ‘regional’ salerooms enjoyed a vintage autumn season with exceptional Chinese works of art spread across half a dozen auction houses, while other November headlines included the Metropolitan Police’s Art and Antiques Unit marking its milestone of turning 50 this year.

This group of late-19th century Chinese export bowls and saucers was made for the Middle Eastern market – specifically for the Qajar prince Mas’ud Mirza Zill al-Sultan (1850-1918).

Cotswolds steel masterworks bring £50,000.

Hot topics in July included the 'furniture deal of the year', the Antiquities Dealers’ Association warning that dealers and auctioneers should stand up to “the politicisation of the antiquities trade” and a saleroom shutting down.

The sale at John Nicholson’s (25% buyer’s premium) in Haslemere on October 24 included a substantial collection of ancient (or ancient style) coloured glassware: more than 60 pieces sold across half a dozen group lots.

Two lots of Japanese cloisonné – both by top-drawer Meiji workshops – merited sums way over estimate at a sale conducted by Thomas R Callan (20% buyer’s premium) in Ayr on November 30.

A ‘prominent’ northern English family consigned a seascape by the Dutch Golden Age painter Jacob van Ruisdael (1628-82) to Anderson & Garland (22% buyer’s premium).

Preview held in imposing stately home helps to boost interest ahead of first sale section.

Comics and comic artwork selling at a very high level were evident in a three-day sale held recently in Dallas.

Our weekly selection from salerooms.

Our regular precious metals pricing update.

While gold prices hitting an all-time high and an art adviser being sentenced to 12 years for fraud were big moments in August, another notable bit of news was Woolley & Wallis chairman Paul Viney stepping down.

An international buyer paid £34,000 for a 15th century Netherlandish School oil on panel of the Virgin and St Elizabeth which was last on the market in 1955.

A pair of engravings after Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c.1525-69) sold for more than six-times estimate at auction in Essex.

Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a Herbert Thomas Dicksee polar bear print.

Our regular listing of British and Irish book auctions.

Exhibition shows how painter’s shift from realism to Pre-Raphaelite fantasies paid off.

Two mixed lots of Victorian dust-pressed tiles sold for multi-estimate sums at Mander (24% buyer’s premium inc VAT) in Sudbury on November 30. Key to their appeal were the inclusion of near sets of tiles made by Minton Hollins & Co to designs by Arts & Crafts luminaries.

Bidders respond positively to auction combination of quality, freshness and pricing.