Print issue 2442 (16 May 2020)
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News
- Pick of the week: Chinese vase sets new online record
- Figures support optimism on antiques exports
- Exports: rising costs and licensing hitch highlight short-term challenges
- Cain Hoy porcelain: number of known survivors grows to 11 as tea bowl and saucer emerge at Adam Partridge
- Fake Sumerian cuneiform tablets seized at airport
News Digest
- Bid Barometer: issue 2442
- The force is with first-ever Star Wars poster
- Precious metals prices: issue 2442
- News In Brief – including the 'Firsts' book fair running as an online event
Feature
- JEWELLERY: Joel Arthur Rosenthal – an open secret
- Sworders to hold monthly jewellery sales as Jacqueline Adams heads to Tennants
- Jewellery auction previews: 10 upcoming lots including a Tiffany Art Nouveau necklace
Auction Reports
- Bronze group purchaser could be rewarded if research confirms Giambologna link
- Credence ready for revival
- Christopher Dresser shows his spirit of adventure
- Signatures boost Live Aid poster price
- Wolverhampton Wanderers FA Cup and Olympic medals sell at Mullock’s
- ART MARKET: Chiswick Auctions’ art sale lifted by two consignments from artist’s estates
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Exceedingly good Kipling prices
- Collected by an anarchist and a librarian
- British and Irish book auctions (all online only): May 12-28, 2020
Previews
Collecting Guide
- A toast to English drinking glasses
- Four 18th century drinking glasses coming up for auction this month - May 2020
Dealers’ Diary
- Campaign furniture exhibition keeps trade on the move during lockdown
- Supreme pair of printmakers featured at Osborne Samuel
- Petworth fair unveils first virtual event
- Dealers report sales at PBFA's inaugural online fair
- From Roman fragments to jigsaws: dealers sell for charity
Dealers Online
International
- Canaletto influence lifts William James' Venetian scene
- Small piece of furniture attracts high level of interest at German auction
- Artist of reverse still life painting revealed in Munich sale
- Danish collectors' eclectic items come to auction in Cologne
- Musical box suitable for a big noise comes to auction
- Teacher carved out career as a sculptor
- Robe became magical prop in Paris before auction in Munich
- Chinese table clock combining Western and Oriental features offered at Hanover sale
Letters
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Cover - Issue 2442