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Derain design stretches to ceramics

24 July 2023

Rare works on offer in Swiss saleroom were by artist most familiar for his Fauvist fine art creations

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The web shop window: 19th century French cocktail cabinet

24 July 2023

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

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Artist identified? That’s Joli good

24 July 2023

Previously unrecorded view by the Italian scenic painter now joins six others of Naples already known

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Science works from big hitters attract new fans

24 July 2023

Collecting genre is being boosted by fresh bidders with deep pockets who work in the technology sector

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Peter, Pietro or Pieter makes his name

24 July 2023

An early 17th century pen and ink drawing of Euterpe, the muse of lyrical music, caused the biggest surprise at Karl & Faber (27% buyer’s premium).

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Look at the big picture thanks to huge Leica dummy sales models

24 July 2023

Leica cameras of rather different dimensions to normal clicked into action at Chiswick Auctions (25% buyer’s premium).

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Album revealing roots of Kew gardens is on export hold

24 July 2023

A group of drawings which helped develop the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew have been temporarily blocked from export in the hope a UK buyer can step in.

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Go deep into American art

24 July 2023

African-American artists and makers from the Deep South of the US are the focus for The Gallery of Everything’s summer show.

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Asian buyers battle at auction for relics of their regions

24 July 2023

Recent sales of Asian art achieved some memorable prices, paid not surprisingly by Asian buyers.

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Your photo calling card: the carte de visite craze

24 July 2023

Just as stereoscope images became a Victorian collecting craze, another notable photographic fad of the era was the carte de visite

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5 Questions with Carolina Valdés Vignoli

24 July 2023

Carolina Valdés Vignoli of Carol Tresor concentrates on collectors’ pieces of mineralogical interest and shipwreck pottery. She is preparing an exhibition of minerals in September at the LAPADA fair in Mayfair.

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Romantic view of the sky – seen from behind bars in a prison

24 July 2023

A canvas by the Romantic painter Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869) went for many times the guide at Kinsky (28% buyer’s premium) in Vienna.

Hardstone brooch

Plea to help locate stolen antique jewellery

20 July 2023

Two antique jewellery dealers are calling on the trade to help locate around £50,000 worth of jewellery that has been stolen in London.

Jonathan Carter.

Tributes paid to clock dealer and author Jonathan Carter

17 July 2023

Horology expert Jonathan Carter of the Carter Marsh dealership in Winchester has died.

Wade Ivy figure

That’s the Wade to go: rare figure sets auction record for pottery factory

17 July 2023

A new auction record for the Wade factory was set by Potteries Auctions in Stoke-on-Trent when this monumental 3ft 10in (1.15m) high figure made for the 1951 Festival of Britain sold at £4200.

Title page of cricket book

Howzat: British Library nets rare cricket book from dealer

17 July 2023

An early book on cricket from the library of commentator John Arlott has been acquired for the British Library from London dealership Peter Harrington.

Shabti

Egyptian relic ‘from Akhenaten’s tomb’ is full of life in London auction

17 July 2023

A fragmentary shabti with a cartouche for the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten proved a highlight of Bonhams’ latest Antiquities sale.

Hôtel Drouot

Drouot sells stake with an eye on digital expansion investment

17 July 2023

French auction business Drouot Group has sold a 30% stake to fund digital expansion.

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Lachenal carries on family design tradition

17 July 2023

London-based French antiques dealer Dorian Caffot de Fawes offers furniture, pictures and other objects from 1920-70.

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News in brief including Charlie Watts' book collection coming to auction

17 July 2023

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including the book collection of the late Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts being offered at Christie's.

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