Print issue 2281 (04 March 2017)

News

• ‘Ten police’ in ‘draconian’ ivory seizure
• Cultural bill creates confusion for dealers
• Rediscovered: Lions that sat back to back at the tomb of Charles V
• Forum to trial all-inclusive auction pricing
• Further investigation
• Trade says business rates require wholesale reform
• Sleeping bugle awakens at £140,000

News Digest

• Top story: UK customs figures reflect global art market drop-off
• Pick of the Week: East meets West for a £55,000 fish sausage
• Bid Barometer
• Photo album returns to ‘Downton’
• News In Brief

The Back Page

• Then & Now
• People
• A lawyer writes - The big questions over authentication
• Obituary: Andree White

TEFAF 2017

• A BRAND GOING PLACES
• Pick of the fair
• TRIBAL ART
• OLD MASTERS
• SCULPTURE & WORKS OF ART
• JEWELLERY
• ANTIQUITIES
• BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
• SILVER
• ARMS & ARMOUR
• SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS
• CHINESE WORKS OF ART
• Rupert Maas offers Glyn Philpot's Little Dancer at TEFAF
• MANUSCRIPTS
• CERAMICS
• Dutch navigators on a fair course
• Lawrence Steigrad Fine Arts, New York
• Aronson Antiquairs, Amsterdam
• Kunsthandel Bies, Eindhoven
• Meet the Maastricht movers and shakers
• The newbie
• The regular
• The Showcase dealers
• The Showcase graduate
• The stalwarts
• Johnny Van Haeften
• The returning dealer
• Freshness in a finite world
• Access all objects VISIT MAASTRICHT 2017
• Top tips: out and about in Maastricht
• The 175 pairs of eyes on Maastricht

Auction Reports

• Worldly wise buys at auction
• Chinese sleeper
• Laxative eases through
• Saleroom stirs up hornet’s best
• Bavarian foxes are dressed to impress
• Irish couple stand out in Kent
• Reynolds? It’s not that simple
• Anglo-Indian art bears auction fruit
• In a couple, for better or verse
• Fantasy books throne up at auction
• Saleroom charts the seas and rocks
• Pointing to Bacon as Shakespeare
• The rule of thumb
• German view of Japanese world

Previews

• Previews: Up to £500
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• Previews: £5001 - £30,000
• Previews: £30,000 plus

Auction Calendar

• Made by Ramsden: the silver lining
• BRITISH AND IRISH BOOK AUCTIONS

Fairs & Markets

• Flea organisers leap into action by doubling up
• Take trike trip to Vauxhall
• Feel the joy of two Jay events
• Holt pitches it at higher level
• Hospice holds larger fair day
• Loving it at the racecourse

Around the auction houses

• Going coal crazy for a saleroom expansion
• Swann animal magic drives perpetual auction motion

Letters to the editor

• Another of your letters to MPs on the proposed ivory trade ban
• Need to scratch that Titch
• What happens when elephants die naturally?
• I’m beginning to feel like an endangered species myself

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