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Mallams’ (25% buyer’s premium) Jewellery, Watches and Silver sale included this Commonwealth silver wine goblet.

Consignments held back during the restrictions are now impressing in salerooms, as recent auction results show

The artist Mary Fedden (1915-2012) was a great lover of opera.

Captain EF Hunter’s 'Map of Arabia and The Persian Gulf' was one of the lots fetching sums considerably in advance of what looked to be quite modest estimates in an Oxford book sale.

John Douglas’ interest in antique base metalware started over 60 years ago.

Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty, has been a favourite subject in art since ancient times.

Portraits boosted takings at Mallams’ (24% buyer’s premium) latest picture sale in Oxford.

Despite lockdown restrictions Bonhams' traditional Oak Interior offerings performed very well

Two of the choice pieces of furniture in Bonhams’ Oak Interiors sale on January 20-21 were published examples.

The Mallams (20% buyer’s premium) two-day Jewellery, Watches and Silver sale in Oxford included some exceptional silver lots.

Pictured below are two textbook Kangxi (1662-1722) period blue and white vases.

A mix of works across different periods and genres drew attention at the first Pictures through the Ages auction at Mallams (27% buyer’s premium) of Oxford.

As implied by an extensive inscription, this souvenir chess piece was produced by Carlo Joseph and Arthur Alphonse Giuliano, sons of the celebrated Italian artist jeweller Carlo Giuliano, to commemorate a chess match played via telegraph in 1897.

Focus on two centres and a Cheshire fair as dealers and organisers encourage visitors

Textbook watercolour by the British artist takes one of his higher prices in recent years.

List of deaths is timely reminder that outbreaks are nothing new

The so-called Hornby Castle Chair, a 4ft 7in (1.38m) high oak open armchair c.1580-1600, sold for £35,000 plus premium at the latest Oak Interior sale at Bonhams in Oxford.