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Sotheby’s to show Cohen collection

30 March 2009

A LOAN exhibition of 20 works from the collection of American billionaire hedge fund manager Steve Cohen opens at Sotheby’s in New York this week.

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Three strikes for Martin Brothers

28 March 2009

DEMAND for Martin Brothers pottery may have tapered off slightly but it still provided three of the top prices at Bonhams’ recent Ceramic Design sale.

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When a major buyer turns vendor: Sevi Guatelli’s Clarice Cliff

27 March 2009

NO-ONE seemed to be in doubt about the quality of Sevi Guatelli’s Clarice Cliff collection.

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Fairytale ending for Wedgwood vase as it sells for £14,400 in Cheshire

23 March 2009

When an impressive Wedgwood Fairyland lustre vase featured on the latest edition of The Antiques Roadshow, valuer Stephen Moore (of Anderson & Garland, Newcastle) wanted to suggest it could bring £10,000-15,000.

Greek court gives UK dealer three years in prison

23 March 2009

THE Greek courts have sentenced an English antiquities dealer to three years in jail after convicting him in his absence on charges linked to stolen artefacts.

Clarke Gammon Wellers merge with Ewbank

23 March 2009

Surrey auctioneers Ewbank and the Fine Art and Antiques division of Clarke Gammon Wellers are to merge.

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Versace’s Zoffany portrait was ‘stolen from family in 1979’

23 March 2009

Just hours before Sotheby’s sold the contents of Gianni Versace’s Lake Como villa on March 18, they withdrew an 18th century portrait by Johann Zoffany after its subject’s family claimed that it had been stolen from their home in London 30 years ago.