Print issue 2557 (03 September 2022)
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News
- ‘Old Master’ sleeper takes 2000-times top estimate
- First Victoria Cross awarded to a civilian comes up at auction
- Battersea Decorative now also launches a Contemporary dealer section
News Digest
- Pick of the week: Large bill – swans book flies away for £54,000
- Bid Barometer: issue 2557
- Rare autograph of England’s first-ever football captain emerges at auction
- Precious metals prices: issue 2557
- News in Brief – including the Chelsea fair moving to a late autumn date
Feature
- CERAMICS: 18th century Lowestoft rarities sell well among local collectors
- Lowestoft herrings reserved for posterity
- Leopard bites back at unlucky hunter
- Strong demand for anti-slavery objects
- Victory parade in figure form
- Angling for Worcester teapot
- Fine Welsh porcelain consigned by Joseph family
- Coleridge collection up for sale at Bellmans
- Roman inspiration supersedes Rococo
- Tile could be a star of the show at the Paris ceramics event
- Dessert service with noble origins on the menu in British Columbia
- Bordeaux date for local delights
Auction Reports
- ART MARKET: Private buyer picks up a Pelican at auction
- Young sitters stand out despite lack of identification
- Portrait could be of US author Sedgwick
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Evelyn Waugh’s first book inscribed by man who wooed author’s first wife
- Fossilised remains unearthed once more in Sussex
- Sherlock’s brother detected in Arthur Conan Doyle autograph manuscript
- Arthur Rackham rarity bound to please
- British and Irish book auctions: August 31-September 24, 2022
Previews
Dealers’ Diary
- Dealer's Auerbach exhibition underlines artist's strong link with his sitters
- Grosvenor Prints' new catalogue offers more than 220 items
- 5 Questions: antiquities dealer Rolf van Kiaer
- Burlingham in tune with the house mix
- Dreweatts to hold sale of items from Windsor House Antiques
- The web shop window: Welsh sycamore mortar from c.1800
International
- TRIBAL ART: Worlds of opportunity in Paris
- London tribal art event back as physical edition
- Shield buyer parries rival bidders
- Join the Oceanic collecting club
- Vast tribal art collection offered after taking three days to remove from Victorian home
Fairs, Markets, Shops & Centres
- York National Book Fair coincides with the ILAB Congress taking place in Oxford
- Call to arms: fairs in Bristol and Birmingham
- Costs bite but B2B is robust