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The most popular stories on this website over the last week included news of a Chinese vase purchased for £1 from a Hertfordshire charity shop now recognised as a Qianlong famille rose wall vase estimated at up to £80,000.

Budding collectors can listen to expert advice at the Goldsmith’s Fair.

ATG’s selection of hammer highlights over the past week includes a novelty smoking set that fetched 40-times estimate, a cartoon for 'Punch' that took 20-times estimate and a leather jewellery case that made over 30-times estimate.

Jeremy Lamond, Halls’ fine art director, will depart after 23 years at the firm.

Sotheby’s shareholders have approved a $3.7bn deal to sell the company to media and telecoms entrepreneur Patrick Drahi.

Held at Church House Conference Centre in Westminster, the 2019 Art Business Conference took place yesterday just a stones throw from parliament where politicians were discussing a bill ruling out a no-deal Brexit.

A 26-foot long kinetic sculpture by Rowland Emett (1906-90) who designed the magical car in the eponymous 1960s film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang has been sold by Bonhams for a six-figure sum to the National Railway Museum in York.