A pair of Worcester dishes of so-called ‘Blind Earl’ form was a best-seller in the ceramics section that […]
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Some early Chinese objects are included in the Timeline Auctions sale in Harwich, Essex on May 28. Extracted […]
Duke’s Asian sale on May 20 includes this Wanli (1572-1620) mark and period wucai ‘zun’ altar vase. Extracted […]
Last November Roseberys in London sold a set of 16 paintings on silk by Kim Jun Keun, better […]
A Chinese ‘sleeper’ emerged in a Vintage and General Sale at Gardiner Houlgate (20% buyer’s premium), Corsham, near […]
Included in a mixed-discipline sale held in Paris by Daguerre (28% buyer’s premium inc VAT) at Drouot was […]
The highlight of a dedicated ceramics sale held at Drouot by Fraysse (22.17% buyer’s premium) was this large […]
Estimated at £300-500, a finely decorated Qing famille rose pen box and cover was knocked down for £33,000 […]
The famous Australian soprano Dame Nellie Melba once owned this pair of ‘Dragon and Phoenix’ bottle vases which […]
A sketch by Dutch artist Lucas van Leyden (1494-1533) has been temporarily blocked from export in the hope […]
A drawing offered at a Paris auction with an attribution to Italian Renaissance painter Giovanni Francesco Penni (1488-1528) […]
Researching Old Master paintings is sometimes likened to putting together the pieces of a jigsaw. But for one […]
The inscription London on the barrels of this pair of 19th century, silver-mounted flintlock pistols is entirely spurious. […]
Tightly bound, clean and crisp, and “about the nicest copy we have seen” was the assessment by a […]
On May 17, Cologne auction house Lempertz is selling 115 bronze mortars from the 8th-18th centuries. Extracted from […]
Furniture, works of art and Old Master paintings collected by members of the famous Rothschild banking family are […]
This highly elaborate chest of drawers decorated in boulle marquetry technique with a variety of different figural and […]
A Renaissance revival jewel perhaps from the same workshop as the famous Canning Jewel has sold at auction […]