Bishop & Miller

The latest edition of The Oak Interior auction held by Bishop & Miller (25% buyer’s premium) in Stowmarket on February 28-29 majored heavily on metalwork.

Watches with provenance will naturally command a premium.

Stowmarket firm Bishop & Miller holds a timed online sale of 104 picture frames that ends on November 19.

Small sky study sets a new high for works by the artist who was a great observer of nature

Suffolk sale includes further selection from Chapman collection – but sculpture brings big surprise

Around 20 lots of delftware, mostly plates, tiles and chargers with modest estimates, featured in the sale of the Diana Steel collection.

James Clowes (c.1643-1705), who was born in Astbury, Cheshire, became a Free Brother of The Clockmakers Company in 1671 – the same year as Thomas Tompion, Joseph Knibb, Daniel Quare and Joseph Windmills. He worked first in St Giles in the Fields and then at Saint Ann’s Blackfriars.

A single-owner sale from the late Norfolk glass collector and dealer Brian Watson is coming to Bishop & Miller on September 27.

An English covered goblet made in 1820 to commemorate the first voyage of the ship Woodford is on offer at Bishop & Miller in Glandford, Norfolk

Is Mason’s ironstone going through a collecting Renaissance? Well, perhaps

Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas were probably members. So too Charles Robert Ashbee.

The Oak Interior sale at Bishop & Miller in Stowmarket on June 1-2 includes this ‘important and exceptional’ Edward IV bronze measure.

Estimated at £15,000-20,000, this 8½in (22cm) Elizabeth I or James I pewter bell-based candlestick sold to a private UK collector bidding online for £25,000 (plus 25% buyer’s premium) as part of the Chapman collection at Bishop & Miller in Stowmarket on April 27.

A spate of businesses taking stock and personal collections to the saleroom reflects wider changes in the market

Most joined oak settles that appear on the market date from the 17th and the 18th centuries.

Since the days of Magna Carta, it was thought the best way to avoid a fraudulent measure was to have a verified ‘standard’ against which all others could be judged.

Bronze examples from the estate of renowned late metalware dealer catch the attention