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

In the bicentenary year of his death, relics connected to Napoleon will inevitably catch the eye.

The great British tradition of celebrating last stands and heroic defeats includes the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940.

Drawings can sell for six figures but a more affordable way to own work by the artist exists

After a long and illustrious naval career, it is a pity that Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell is best known for the circumstances of his death.

These pressed Darjeeling ferns feature in an album compiled and mounted by Phoebe Jaffrey in 1882.

London gallery devotes catalogue to items from the era to mark bicentenary of his death

Bonhams has moved its annual Greek art auction to France from London following Brexit.

The sale at Roseberys London on May 18 includes this gold and silver-inlaid bronze tapir-form zun dated to the Yuan or early Ming period.

Chiswick Auctions conducts two sales on June 1-2: the usual Asian Art sale, plus a themed sale called Chinese Art: 100 Stories.

London auction offered wide array including famous Federalist American collection of essays

Sotheby’s sale of Chinese art on May 12 includes this Qianlong mark and period celadon ground famille rose decorated bottle vase.

This 19th century thangka depicts the Buddhist goddess Tara seated in lalitasana on a lotus growing from a lake a pond, a padma in each hand.

Guest and Gray, trading from a gallery in central London at 58 Davies Street, decided to launch a new website during lockdown.

Bonhams conducts a general sale of Asian art in Knightsbridge on May 10.

Lyon & Turnbull’s May 14 sale in London includes this flambe glazed pear-shaped bottle vase that carries a Qianlong mark and may be of the period.