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The emerging class of wealthy Chinese buyers continues to boost the top-end of the art and antiques market in the Far East. So it wasn’t a huge surprise that Sotheby’s set a house record in this autumn’s Hong Kong series, taking HK$850.9m (£61.7m) from seven sales.

BY ALEX CAPON THE Arts Council is to extend its policy of offering interest-free loans to encourage Contemporary art sales by allowing London galleries to apply for the scheme.

Police in Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, are investigating a series of thefts from antiques shops and galleries in the area over the last month, which officers believe are linked.

Nicholas Somers, recently re-elected as chairman of the RICS Fine Art and Antiques Faculty, will make education the focus of his third and final term.

Less than a month after celebrating its 25th anniversary, the Baltimore Summer Antiques Show has been acquired by the managing partners of the Palm Beach Jewelry & Antique Show from Frank Farbenbloom.

ART donations to public collections could soon be used to partially offset income tax.

A memorial service for Barry Davies, the well-known dealer in Japanese works of art who died in September, will be held on Monday, December 12.