East of England

In what may have felt like a flashback to the past, when bidders actually attended day sales in person, the Elveden Hall auction held by Sworders was deemed a runaway success.

A single-owner sale from the late Norfolk glass collector and dealer Brian Watson is coming to Bishop & Miller on September 27.

Among the lots on offer at Sworders’ upcoming Old Master, British and European Art sale is a small sketch of two lawyers by Honoré Daumier (1808-79).

A group of nine Empire period Sèvres porcelain plates were the object of keen interest when they came up for sale at Lockdales in Ipswich on August 31.

Sporting specialist saleroom highlights include wicket-keeping gloves, bat and even a soup tureen

A Regency Coade stone torchère has been acquired by The Fitzwilliam Museum from West Midlands dealership Thomas Coulborn & Sons.

The north European Mannerist bronze sold for £550,000 against a guide of £250-350 was not the only spectacular sleeper in the August 8 sale at Reeman Dansie (22.5% buyer’s premium).

With the traditional hiatus in the UK auction market typically stretching across the month of August, a number of notable picture highlights appeared slightly earlier this summer at sales around the country.

Extensive selection of the long-running cricket guides on offer at auction runs up a market test

An English covered goblet made in 1820 to commemorate the first voyage of the ship Woodford is on offer at Bishop & Miller in Glandford, Norfolk

The boar’s head tureen with matching stand is considered the rarest of all the game tureens made by the Minton factory in its colourful majolica range.

Is Mason’s ironstone going through a collecting Renaissance? Well, perhaps

Joseph Towne (1806-79) is best known for pioneering the creation of anatomical wax models, many of which are now displayed at a medical museum at Guy’s Hospital in London.

Antiques dealers Marylyn and Ray Wood took over the 30-year-old biannual Three Counties Antiques and Fine Art Fair in 2020 and held their first staging as Castlewood Antique Fairs in September 2021.

England cricketer Sir Ian Botham sold a group of memorabilia from his international and club career at auction on July 15.

The Vinyl Cape Jawa was the first Star Wars action figure to assume mythic status among collectors.

Inaugural Lomax-organised Southwold event could be joined by another high-end fair also in East Anglia

Antiques furniture dealer Philip Crosthwaite’s popular monthly antiques fair in Norwich will feature Richard Goddard, who sells antique vintage tools for a worthy social cause.