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John Bartlam Cain Hoy teapot

Early American teapot sells at £460,000 as vendor makes huge return on £15 purchase

20 February 2018

A previously unrecorded teapot attributed to a pioneering American porcelain factory sold at a Woolley & Wallis auction today for £460,000. The vendor of the teapot, a private collector from south-west of England, had bought it recently in the Midlands for just £15.

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Concorde nose cone set to soar at auction

20 February 2018

A saleroom that sold a selection of items related to the Dambusters has moved on about 30 years for its latest aviation lot: a nose cone from Concorde.

Book of Hours

Louvre secures funding from 8500 donors to buy £8m Book of Hours once owned by Francis I of France

20 February 2018

The Louvre Museum in Paris has raised more than £8m to buy a jewel-encrusted Book of Hours.

Coin cabinet

Spink-sponsored British Museum exhibition aims to bring numismatics to the public

20 February 2018

The British Museum is to hold an exhibition on money and medals in a tie-up with specialist London coin and stamp auction Spink.

Peggy and David Rockefeller

Collection of billionaire American philanthropists Peggy and David Rockefeller goes on show in London as part of world tour ahead of ‘sale of the century’ auction

19 February 2018

What could become the most valuable collection ever auctioned is going on show in London this week.

terrier

Good boy, good buy: Terrier portrait tops sale at Batemans Auctioneers

19 February 2018

Among the leading sellers at Batemans’ recent auction was this portrait of a small terrier.

Venus and Adonis

Sotheby’s second erotic sale topped by sensual painting of mythological lovers

19 February 2018

Sotheby’s second annual sale of erotic art last week totalled £3.7m, falling somewhat short of expectations and last year’s results.