Print issue 2470 (05 December 2020)
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News
- Trade delight as markets and dealers reopen
- Odundo vase achieves record for single work by living potter at Maak auction
- Making moves for Anglo-Saxon ‘chess piece’
- Churchill oil proves the toast of Modern British art sales this season
News Digest
- Pick of the week: Rev Gilpin champions the Romantic ideal
- Bid Barometer: issue 2470
- The ‘Attagirls’: British wartime female pilots
- Precious metals prices: issue 2470
- News In Brief – including news of a Welsh auction house expanding to Carmarthen
Feature
- ASIAN ART HAMMER HIGHLIGHTS: The great call of China
- Qatari family jades return in new era
- Windfall sums for the three abundances at Olympia Auctions
- Dragons of the Qing as spectacular dishes sell at Sotheby's
- Yongzheng dish lights up Hope Smith collection at Bonhams
- The heavenly globe: Exceptional Qing famille rose vase soars over estimate at Chiswick Auctions
- Chinese brush pot makes £23,000 at Bishop & Miller
- ʻThe epitome of old European taste’: British diplomat's collection of Chinese ceramics sells at Semley Auctions
- Qing gilt-bronze incense burner sells at 17-times estimate to Hong Kong buyer at Sworders
- Guangxu in pastel shades
- Monochrome surprise as Chinese bowl brings hefty bidding at Dreweatts
- Textbook Kangxi blue and white vases emerge at sales in the north and south
- Magnificent monteith is £90,000 prize
- Early wares with Janssens provenance provide highlights to Roseberys sale
- The elephants at the courts of Edo Japan
- Lucky lacquer at Surrey sale
- Late Qing table screen makes £11,000 at Ewbank’s
- Qianlong masterworks or honorific doppelgangers?
- Chicken cup and ʻShi Tao’ landscape scroll turn heads at Lyon & Turnbull
Auction Reports
- ART MARKET: Bidding for Ravilious wood engraving underlines demand for leading Mod Brit names
- Cedric Morris' view of Morocco among Mod Brit highlights at Lyon & Turnbull
- Beaton’s male dancer attracts attention in Cheltenham
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Wallis cracks it in the saleroom
- Debut with lots of Biblical proportions
- Sang collection of historical documents returns to Sotheby's New York
- British and Irish book auctions: December 2-12, 2020
Ceramics
Previews
Dealers’ Diary
- Bewitched by the mystic arts: New York drawings dealer hosts show of Occult pictures
- Suffolk House stages Christmas show of 70 pieces of furniture
- Wingett goes for upmarket upcycling turning scrap into a super Georgian cistern
- 5 Questions: art dealer James Mackinnon
- The web shop window: ‘Princes’ edition’ of epic poem symbolising Holy Roman Emperor
- Sleep thinkers at winter edition of London Art Week
International
- Unattributed work now ascribed to one of da Vinci’s closest pupils sets €1.4m record
- Surrealist Max Ernst branches out into forest
- Mammen makes entrance with Way Out
- Railway picture by Moholo-Nagy emerges at Munich sale
- Josef Hoffmann vase is a leading light at Vienna auction
- Phillips to offer specialist dealer's art pottery
- Barlach on song as bronze sculpture cast comes to Cologne sale
Fairs, Markets & Centres
- Vintage fashion fair is among events creating a shop window online
- Banana website proves fruitful
- More than a nod to online
- Midcentury Modern organisers host show on the web
Letters
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