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Friends of Versailles buy Sèvres snuff box at Bonhams

A snuff-box made for Madame Adélaïde has set an auction record for a Sèvres box, selling for £150,000 (or a premium-inclusive £190,900). 29 December 2025

Five top picture lots sold at auctions outside London this year

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NewsA £31,000 Fabergé farmyard star brings animal magic to Macclesfield

The first day of the December 10-12 sale at Adam Partridge in Macclesfield, Cheshire, included a 2in (5cm) high Fabergé jewelled agate model of a cockerel or rooster.

NewsTrade alert after masked men steal Guild of Handicraft jewellery

Police are appealing for information after many identifiable pieces of antique jewellery were stolen during a robbery in the Cotswolds.

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Ceramics and Glass

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Ceramics and GlassThird Wedgwood Fairyland lustre record in a row

For the third time in a year, a new auction record for Wedgwood Fairyland lustre has been set by Woody Auction in Douglass, Kansas.

Ceramics and GlassFemale ceramics designer shone in Copenhagen

Ceramics and GlassStaffordshire figures collector: ‘I buy what I like and that’s enough focus for me’

Ceramics and GlassSmall but exceptional Doulton group emerge at Adam Partridge

Ceramics and GlassSingle-owner William De Morgan pottery collection takes flight at Guernsey auction

Ceramics and GlassTeapots galore served in sale

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Ceramics and GlassSèvres bottle coolers sell to French bidder at 20 times the top estimate

Ceramics and GlassHoot if you are a Lalique car mascot worth £70,000

Ceramics and GlassDelftware salt at Salisbury auction is rare survivor

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JewelleryFrom Buckingham Palace vaults to saleroom highs

The Airlie tiara proved once again that fine examples associated with royalty and or aristocracy carry a financial premium.

JewelleryJavanese please: Items from the Indonesian island’s true golden age

Jewellery from Indonesia shows great artistic and technical sophistication that catches the eyes of collectors.

JewelleryRing deemed of ‘Tudor or Stuart’ origin rather than 18th century

JewelleryGetty Museum reveals latest purchases including ancient Greek ring

JewelleryThe ‘£50 box of costume jewellery’ sold for £600,000 at auction

JewelleryBrooches are ‘too often underestimated’ says Wartski specialist

JewelleryKoopman jewellery strong enough to ‘go it alone’

JewelleryWhy Child & Child was the artist’s choice

Jewellery‘The place where Tiffany glass and jewellery overlaps’

JewelleryGeoffrey Munn loans jewellery collection to V&A

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Recent coverage of the Modern British art market

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Modern British ArtRecord for Ethel Walker as elegant still life emerges from huge collection

An enormous deceased estate in West Yorkshire provided Scarborough saleroom David Duggleby with a richly worked picture in Ethel Walker’s distinctive, expressive style.

Modern British ArtJohn Nash brings in big Bucks with his countryside scenes

Modern British ArtLargest Tirzah Garwood group to emerge in one go sets a test of the market

Modern British ArtGrandmother’s Alfred Wallis purchases bring reward for vendor

Modern British ArtNathaniel Sparks’ ‘masterpiece’ flies over estimate at Cambridge sale

Modern British ArtDemand emerges for Mary Potter still life at specialist East Anglian art sale

Modern British ArtStudio source brings strong results

Modern British ArtRich seam of modern art surfaces in Somerset

Modern British ArtAuction record set for George Chapman at Rogers Jones

Modern British Art‘Gem of a painting’ was created by key figure in Tempera Revival

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19 December 2025

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18 December 2025

Leonard Squirrell’s views of Framlingham bring exceptional prices for Suffolk artist

18 December 2025

Auction houses Christie’s and Sotheby’s reveal totals for 2025

17 December 2025

Record for Léon Bonvin as flower painting flies to six times estimate at Olympia Auctions

17 December 2025

Tiffany lamp record set as Magnolia pattern turns heads at Sotheby’s

16 December 2025

UK buyer sought for 17th-century English maritime manuscript

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Ceramics and GlassThird Wedgwood Fairyland lustre record in a row

Ceramics and GlassFemale ceramics designer shone in Copenhagen

Ceramics and GlassStaffordshire figures collector: ‘I buy what I like and that’s enough focus for me’

Ceramics and GlassSmall but exceptional Doulton group emerge at Adam Partridge

Ceramics and GlassSingle-owner William De Morgan pottery collection takes flight at Guernsey auction

Ceramics and GlassTeapots galore served in sale

Ceramics and GlassBasket picked out from Vincennes Louis XV service

Ceramics and GlassSèvres bottle coolers sell to French bidder at 20 times the top estimate

Ceramics and GlassHoot if you are a Lalique car mascot worth £70,000

Ceramics and GlassDelftware salt at Salisbury auction is rare survivor

Jewellery Highlights

JewelleryFrom Buckingham Palace vaults to saleroom highs

JewelleryJavanese please: Items from the Indonesian island’s true golden age

JewelleryRing deemed of ‘Tudor or Stuart’ origin rather than 18th century

JewelleryGetty Museum reveals latest purchases including ancient Greek ring

JewelleryThe ‘£50 box of costume jewellery’ sold for £600,000 at auction

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JewelleryKoopman jewellery strong enough to ‘go it alone’

JewelleryWhy Child & Child was the artist’s choice

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Modern British ArtRecord for Ethel Walker as elegant still life emerges from huge collection

Modern British ArtJohn Nash brings in big Bucks with his countryside scenes

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Modern British ArtGrandmother’s Alfred Wallis purchases bring reward for vendor

Modern British ArtNathaniel Sparks’ ‘masterpiece’ flies over estimate at Cambridge sale

Modern British ArtDemand emerges for Mary Potter still life at specialist East Anglian art sale

Modern British ArtStudio source brings strong results

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