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NewsSet of 12 Chinese export pictures portrays a production line of porcelain

A set of 12 Chinese export pictures depicting the manufacture and distribution of porcelain was among the highlights of a recent sale held by Nadeau’s in Windsor, Connecticut.

News DigestBought for buttons, now worth £48,000

Bought for just £40 earlier in the year, two rare bronze buttons designed by Alberto Giacometti for Elsa Schiaparelli hammered for £48,000 at the latest Modern Decorative Art & Design sale at Bonhams Knightsbridge.

BackpageObituary: IACF chairman Keith Harris (1946-2025)

BackpageATG letter: How artificial intelligence can deliver real advantages for the art and antiques trade

News DigestPenguin egg picked up by Ponting

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FeatureThe rarest Wisden – but which version?

Dealers’ DiaryBattleship design: Folk art creation underlines the variety available at The Decorative Fair

International Japanese robot-driven car toy sells at $190,000

Dealers’ DiaryExhibitor notches up 55th year at New York show

Ceramics and Glass

Recent coverage of the ceramics and glass market

Ceramics

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

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

Recent coverage of the jewellery market

Jewellery

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

Modern British Art Highlights

Recent coverage of the Modern British art market

Modern British Art

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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05 January 2026

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Top stories this week including news of the tragic death of antiques dealer Matthew Upham

Auction house and dealer hires among the latest recruitment round up

‘Mysterious’ collection of 18th-century French paintings comes to auction

Historic York bookshop to reopen after three-year renovation project

Extensive Oscar Wilde collection to go under the hammer

‘People are coming in with their entire stock’

Bidders overlook condition issues as drawing flies to 50 times estimate in Gloucestershire

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NewsSet of 12 Chinese export pictures portrays a production line of porcelain

News DigestBought for buttons, now worth £48,000

BackpageObituary: IACF chairman Keith Harris (1946-2025)

BackpageATG letter: How artificial intelligence can deliver real advantages for the art and antiques trade

News DigestPenguin egg picked up by Ponting

Preview 2026Looking ahead to 2026

FeatureThe rarest Wisden – but which version?

Dealers’ DiaryBattleship design: Folk art creation underlines the variety available at The Decorative Fair

International Japanese robot-driven car toy sells at $190,000

Dealers’ DiaryExhibitor notches up 55th year at New York show

Ceramics and Glass

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

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

Modern British Art Highlights

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

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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