Print issue 2591 (06 May 2023)
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News
- Crowning glory: George II coronation relic rings a bell
- Buyers rush for royal memorabilia
- Edward VIII collection comes up for sale
- A £65,000 price reflects considerable appeal of stumpwork mirror frame
- Lewis Carroll’s ‘child friends’ photographs sell to French dealer
News Digest
- Pick of the week: Support band turned out to be The Sex Pistols
- Heroic diver's Rolex watch featured on Antiques Roadshow comes to Norfolk auction
- News in brief including a Roman bust discovered in a US charity shop
- Precious metals prices: issue 2591
- Bid Barometer: issue 2591
Feature
- ROYAL COLLECTABLES: Seats of power – the market for 'coronation furniture'
- Dressed to impress with a tassel
- Items from royal milliner Kate Day appear in the saleroom
- Pomp and ceremony at Gloucestershire auction as coronation robes go under the hammer
- Norman Hartnell designs for a princess emerge at Richard Winterton
- Queen Victoria watercolours snapped up by royal trust
- Oils by Queen Victoria sell in London auction
- Pins were a personal gift from Queen Victoria
- Styles sculpture tribute to mark Queen Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburgh silver wedding anniversary
- Live it up in mock Tudor
- Festive cheer from royalty
- Royal role of pioneering photographer Wilding
- Beating the drum for Queen Elizabeth II
- Get your teeth into this royal memorabilia
- Letters reveal heartbreak of Princess Di
- Presents for a princess from a queen
- Wilding portraits on offer in west London
- Last of Henry’s six wives and spared death or divorce
- History of coronation on the cards
- BADA Friends talk covers crowning glories
- Raise a toast to the queen
- Queen Mother caught in sculpture form for the final time
- Heads you win a final proof coin set bearing Queen Victoria’s portrait
- Jewellery given ‘by Edward to Wallis’
- Spoon that served a princess
- Tureens on offer from a huge service
- Charles at age five failed to be popular
- Portrait depicts the last king to reign before Charles III
- Procession panorama stretches 30ft long
- Pins point to royal symbolism
- Royal memorabilia to be spotted at the Petworth fair
- Two to look out for at the Battersea Dec fair
Auction Reports
- ART MARKET: London as seen before the big blaze
- Webb depicts majesty of Greenwich Palace in smaller form
- Turner and Wilkie turn up at auction
- Famous tiger burns bright – despite being a copy
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Story of the start of slave trade abolition in Britain
- The 500th and final edition of a very special Endymion
- British and Irish book auctions: May 2-18, 2023
Previews
Asian Art
- UK still holds its own despite overseas focus
- Xuande ‘pomegranate’ box and cover displays imperial appeal
- Ming ritual water vessel offered at Chiswick Auctions
- Bannermen set to fly high at auction
- Wucai wine cups bring flower power
- Items from auctioneer Whitfield's collection come for sale
- Dr Wou Kiuan Collection takes a journey through history
- Guanyin on hand thanks to a noted collector
- Transitional vase decorated with scene from literary epic
- Auspicious aspects of vase for sale from a private collector
- Owned by a London connoisseur, gentleman collector and agent to Victor Rothschild
- Lotus and chrysanthemum set to blossom
- European landscapes in view on Canton vase
- Spotlight on the Tomkinson collection
- Drug jar was designed for the Western market
- Leafy branch with chestnuts left Tokyo in 1968
- Japanese desk and box could be the write stuff to buy
- Carp with crashing waves swim into Bath auction
- Pressing engagement in Essex
- Sword makers and armourers courted a new clientele after abolition of Samurai
- Boxwood netsuke deer among lots at Lyon and Turnbull
Dealers’ Diary
- London dealer stages extensive exhibition and events celebrating women in the arts
- Galloway closes Dover Street gallery space
- 5 Questions: Chinese porcelain specialist Alberto Santos
- The web shop window: A collection of fishing priests
International
- Two vases sold in Germany underline demand for Bohemian glass
- You’ve got the lion look
- Early 19th century pianoforte makes sound price
- Mary medal is one of just two known
- US design formed latest type of telegraph tech
- Maltese bidders write on cue
- Coral from the coast of Siciliy
Fairs, Markets, Shops & Centres
- Son of prolific artist Robert Lenkiewicz opens gallery in south Devon town
- Make a date… but the right one
Letters
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