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Good news comes with the relaunch of a two-day fair in central London. Jane Alexander of Dovehouse Antiques Fairs, which runs monthly antiques fairs in Dorking, has announced that she is taking over the Little Chelsea Fair.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including US auction house Freeman’s plans to move in Philadelphia.

Reinagle’s equine portrait painted in Reading brewery brings £15,000 at Salisbury sale

A Madonna and Child sculpture from 19th century Luba culture in the Democratic Republic of Congo was among the sales at Tribal Art London, where the theme was Mother, Muse and Maker.

MADAM – Last year I bought a basket-case of a canvas from an artist’s estate for £400. I then spent many hundreds of pounds on a new support, re-stretching, cleaning and re-framing and eventually sold it for a profit.

The British Antique Dealers’ Association has sold a majority stake in its annual fair to “make it sustainable for the future”.

Sussex auction house Burstow & Hewett has withdrawn a rare Maori cloak after its imminent sale was met by online threats and abuse.

Jeremy Lamond, Halls’ fine art director, is stepping down after 23 years at the firm.

The organisers of Fine Art Asia in Hong Kong have confirmed the event will proceed as planned, despite the ongoing anti-government protests in the city.

Dealer Ian Shaw sold this Tutsi shield, made of lightweight wood with natural pigment and offered for £13,000, to an interior designer from Denmark at last week’s 'Tribal Art London' fair.

The National Museums of Scotland has been revealed as the buyer of the Storrar Coverlet – a rare woollen textile withdrawn at the 11th hour from a sale at Lyon & Turnbull in Edinburgh in August.

Could these be the opera glasses used by Mary Lincoln on the night her husband was assassinated? Colchester auction house Reeman Dansie will offer them for sale on September 24-25 with a guide price of £10,000-20,000.

ATG’s calendar of book auctions taking place in the UK and Ireland from September 10-26, 2019.

MADAM – The castle depicted on the matrix seal (letters, ATG No 2406) is Chirk in Denbighshire, seat of the Myddleton family.

The annual Lee Plate trophy cricket match was contested between the Fine Art Trade and Christie’s at Chiswick House on Monday, September 2. Christie’s won the toss and elected to bat, making a brisk start with Thurlow- Wood and Piers Boothman going well.

A 15% tax on imports into the US of art, antiques and manuscripts made in China took effect on September 1.

On Friday, September 6, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $1504.95 / €1365.57 / £1223.52

Entry card for 1823 auction sells in Gloucestershire saleroom nearly 200 years later