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TWO provincial salerooms have been revived and another is under new ownership as the UK auction scene enters the traditionally busy spring season.

A THIEF who used a key to get into a display cabinet and avoided being filmed on CCTV has made off with two unusual artefacts from a museum in Surrey.

The UK’s leading art charity has commissioned its first-ever work by a contemporary artist as part of a campaign to boost funding for the arts.

This exceptional Regency centre table shot to £96,000 (plus premium) at Bearnes of Exeter on March 1.

A magnificent Charles II silver fluted fruit sideboard dish saved from export in 2005 is now on display at the Royal College of Physicians. It will be displayed alongside their existing collection of memorabilia relating to Sir Francis Prujean, the President of the Royal College of Physicians (1650-1654) whose life-saving cures were recorded in Pepys’ diaries.

MORE details have been emerging as to exactly how dealers will have to meet their obligations under the droit de suite directive.

On March 15 Dreweatt Neate are pioneering a live auction online with a difference at their Donnington Priory salerooms near Newbury.