Colnaghi has confirmed the launch of its Colnaghi Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation to promote Old Masters and antiquities to a 21st century audience.

The long-awaited government consultation on the trade in ivory in the UK is to be launched.

A silver tumbler made by 17th century Chester silversmith Peter Pemberton has been bought by a trust to ensure it will stay on public display in its home town.

A former bank building in Bishop Auckland in County Durham will reopen as a museum this month housing a collection of art made by former miners in the area.

Art consultancy and valuation firm Gurr Johns has bought auction firms Dreweatts and Bloomsbury from Stanley Gibbons for £1.25m.

The work of British society portrait painter Sir Oswald Birley (1880-1952) is being celebrated in a loan exhibition at London dealer Philip Mould.

A Chinese dish, once valued on the BBC’s ‘Antiques Roadshow’, has sold at Hansons Auctioneers for £230,000.

An antiques dealer and Kent Police are calling on the trade to be aware of stolen silver items from a shop in Tenterden in Kent.

Auction house Sotheby’s has awarded two US museums a prize of $125,000 each as part of its new exhibition competition.

A group of young trade members gathered on Kensington Church Street yesterday for an evening of networking.

Cameras, scientific and medical instruments specialist Flints Auctioneers held its first auction this month and a 19th century French telescope was among the highlights of the sale.

Old master dealership Colnaghi is to open a gallery in New York and will expand into ancient art with the hiring of a new director from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Dealer Bendor Grosvenor’s returning series ‘Britain’s Lost Masterpieces’ has discovered a work by Flemish artist Sir Peter Paul Rubens in a National Trust property in Glasgow.

Jewellery dealer SJ Phillips is to sell a selection of its wares at a Sotheby’s auction after it downsized to new premises in Mayfair earlier this year.

Wine, jewellery, watches and coins are the best performing luxury assets over the past year according to the latest update from a luxury investment index.