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

Christie’s posted projected global sales of $6.2bn (£4.65bn) for 2025 while Sotheby’s reported a figure of $7bn (£5.25bn). 17 December 2025

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

17 December 2025

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

16 December 2025

UK buyer sought for 17th-century English maritime manuscript

16 December 2025
Price Reporter: Latest auction results including a stoneware owl by Alfred George Hopkins

16 December 2025
The London Original Print Fair reveals new dates for 2026

15 December 2025
Top stories this week including the Sherborne almshouse triptych making £5.2m at Sotheby’s

14 December 2025

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NewsCloisonné imperial vases pair up at £145,000

The latest sale at Alastair Gibson Auctions in Kent was led by a stellar example of Meiji or Taisho era cloisonné: a pair of imperial presentation vases by Nagoya master Hattori Tadasaburo.

News DigestPlucked out: Banjo vase hits the right note in a yellow version at £10,000

While the market for post-war Whitefriars has waxed and waned in the past three decades, in 2025 several very active collectors have driven saleroom prices forward once again. It has been a strong year for the Geoffrey Baxter Textured range in particular.

News DigestMedals from stricken soldier who helped Florence Nightingale on offer at Noonans

News DigestNews in brief including the launch of a new auction house in Cheshire

Dealers’ DiaryAutumn staging at NEC falls into place

Auction ReportsGreaves goes down by the Chelsea riverside

International From fairground to firemen: highlights from the Ivoire group of salerooms

Fairs, Markets, Shops & CentresTake a butcher’s at this new business

Auction ReportsPlenty of collecting options in a shipshape memorabilia market

NewsWatches consulted by three heroes of Trafalgar during the battle sell as a wave of Nelson interest sweeps in

Ceramics and Glass

Recent coverage of the ceramics and glass market

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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

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

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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

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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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Number plate from 'Lotus driving auctioneer' comes to auction for first time in around 40 years

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Mayfair antiquities dealer Kallos Gallery closes its doors after more than a decade

11 December 2025

Major record for Scottish artist as rare 1920s painting emerges fresh to the market

10 December 2025

Cornwall auction house goes up for sale

10 December 2025

Cheshire auction house launch planned for new year

09 December 2025

Raft of rare book fairs return for 2026

09 December 2025

New faces in Oxford, London and Germany across auction houses and fair organisers

08 December 2025

Hans Coper cup is among five lots to watch

08 December 2025

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

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

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

UK buyer sought for 17th-century English maritime manuscript

Price Reporter: Latest auction results including a stoneware owl by Alfred George Hopkins

The London Original Print Fair reveals new dates for 2026

Top stories this week including the Sherborne almshouse triptych making £5.2m at Sotheby’s

Latest Print Edition

NewsCloisonné imperial vases pair up at £145,000

News DigestPlucked out: Banjo vase hits the right note in a yellow version at £10,000

News DigestMedals from stricken soldier who helped Florence Nightingale on offer at Noonans

News DigestNews in brief including the launch of a new auction house in Cheshire

Dealers’ DiaryAutumn staging at NEC falls into place

Auction ReportsGreaves goes down by the Chelsea riverside

International From fairground to firemen: highlights from the Ivoire group of salerooms

Fairs, Markets, Shops & CentresTake a butcher’s at this new business

Auction ReportsPlenty of collecting options in a shipshape memorabilia market

NewsWatches consulted by three heroes of Trafalgar during the battle sell as a wave of Nelson interest sweeps in

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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Mayfair antiquities dealer Kallos Gallery closes its doors after more than a decade

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