Print issue 2418 (23 November 2019)
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News
- Bids pour in for Asian art as £800,000 teapot and Kangxi rediscovery highlight latest sales series
- Chinese works from Anthony Du Boulay collection generates bonanza at Duke's
- Artemisia Gentleschi’s Lucretia takes record in Paris auction
- Trade’s latest challenge to Ivory Act could delay the near-total ban until spring 2020
- German violin instrumental in bid for overlooked box lot
- Jewels come in from the cold at £68,000
News Digest
- Pick of the week: Porthia Prints take pride of place
- Bid Barometer: issue 2418
- Insurance fire marks sell in a blaze of glory
- Precious metals prices: issue 2418
- News In Brief – including Derby saleroom being forced to close temporarily after flooding
Auction Reports
- Unsentimental decision to split Queen Anne silver tazza and tankard after 300 years together
- Big names boost Aesthetic appeal at auction
- Bidders warm to rare globes
- Beastly Beswick rarities in demand
- Real rail and the model variety
- Star decorators from Desire Leroy to Joseph Bailey
- Wolley winds up to £4800
- ART MARKET: Marine sale that stays buoyant
- Royal yacht which sailed into obsolescence
- Napoleon rides high in the Cotswolds
- Brews news: British Museum buys 19th century print
- Affordable art: Three works sold for under £3000 including a Sara Wells Page portrait
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Licence to kill a Bond book
- The railway that carried escaped slaves to freedom
- Lambarde on Anglo-Saxon laws
- Key inscription boosts 1891 copy of Oscar Wilde's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'
- British and Irish book auctions: November 19-30, 2019
Previews
- Previews: Up to £600
- Previews: £601 - £1000
- Previews: £1001 - £5000
- Previews: £5001 - £10,000
- Previews: £10,001 - £30,000
Dealers’ Diary
- Dealer duo stage St James’s exhibition featuring old and recent views of London
- Special birthday brings big barn finds
- 5 Questions: Carlo Milano of Callisto Fine Arts
- Philip Mould makes his divine intervention with Ambrose McEvoy exhibition
- Artist happy to chop and change
- The web shop window: English furniture in French style
- Chelsea rare book fair hosts buyers and browsers
- Another Brexit delay? Non, merci!
International
- Family values at Munich saleroom
- Dorotheum saleroom’s seven heaven
- A price not to be sneezed at
- Einstein surprise at Stuttgart auction
- Final slice of Soo Pieng
- Pupil follows master’s example
- Bernhard Hoetger's 'light and shadow' ceramic figure emerges at German sale
- Snail netsuke from Nagoya crawls into Cologne auction
- Rococo couple by Höchst in autumn glory
- Vintage print of Julia Margaret Cameron's 'The Dream' offered at Berlin auction
- Schiele reveals his artistic manifesto
Fairs & Markets
- Bumper December at Ally Pally
- Create a scandalous collection
- Three upcoming fairs in Yorkshire including Jaguar's two-day event at Wetherby Racecourse
Regulations
Letters & Opinion
- Stop sitting on the fence and now back our ivory ban challenge
- A lawyer writes: Take care – copyright can cover contents
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Cover - Issue 2418