Latest News Articles by Laura Chesters
Trade bodies say Budget 2017 ‘ducks desperate need for business rate reform’
18 March 2017The antiques trade has expressed disappointment following the Spring Budget, after its reform of business rates fell short of the wholesale changes requested by industry bodies.
New grant helps funding appeal to keep Wedgwood First Day’s vase in Stoke on Trent
17 March 2017Stoke-on-Trent’s Potteries Museum & Art Gallery is hopeful of raising nearly half a million pounds to buy a Wedgwood First Day’s vase after it was awarded a £90,000 grant from the Art Fund.
Carlisle museum welcomes back £2m Crosby Garrett Roman helmet
16 March 2017A major British archaeological find is to return to a Carlisle museum for a new show on Hadrian’s Cavalry.
Antiques trade hopeful of business rates reform following government u-turn on National Insurance
16 March 2017A government u-turn on a National Insurance rise has been welcomed by the art and antiques trade, giving hope that a review of business rates could follow.
Princess Diana letters on honeymoon and birth of son head to auction in Gloucestershire
15 March 2017Letters from the late Princess Diana surfaced at auction earlier this year in Cambridge and now another set is being offered in Gloucestershire.
Czech émigrés' studio sculptures come to auction at Mallams in Oxford
14 March 2017Works from the studio of sculptors Franta Belsky and Irena Sedlecka are coming to auction at Mallams in Oxford.
Private deals are thriving in times of tension
11 March 2017Latest TEFAF market report says uncertainty drives confidentiality
TEFAF 2017: more sales announced and one work removed for being too provocative
10 March 2017The official opening day of TEFAF Maastricht continued to glean sales for dealers with a number of strong six-figure sales adding to the handful of seven-figure sales reported at yesterday’s preview event.
American buyers in evidence among early sales at TEFAF Maastricht
10 March 2017Yesterday at his stand Geoffrey Munn, managing director at jeweller dealer Wartski, described the Maastricht TEFAF fair as "a fascinating mix of art and mammon".
Touchdown at TEFAF: 10 shots from the preview day at the Maastricht fair
09 March 2017TEFAF Maastricht's preview opened today at the MECC. The fair opens to the public tomorrow and runs from March 10-19. Here ATG takes a sneak peek at the fair, its exhibitors and its visitors.
Russian kovsh stolen from Lancashire art and antiques dealer
09 March 2017A Lancashire art and antiques dealership is appealing for help to track down a stolen antique Russian drinking vessel.
Relief for small businesses promised as Hammond announces first Budget
08 March 2017Some small businesses have been given a reprieve in the Budget today from the planned hike in business rates.
Recovering Egyptian artefacts from overseas is not in Egypt's favour, says its former antiquities minister
07 March 2017Egypt’s former antiquities minister Mamdouh al-Damaty has called for a change of policy relating to Egyptian artefacts traded abroad.
Resolution for antiques dealer after ‘draconian’ ivory seizure
06 March 2017A police ordeal for a Derbyshire antiques dealer following a “draconian” swoop over a Victorian ivory thermometer has finally been resolved.
Quest for anonymity drives increase in private art sales, says TEFAF Report
06 March 2017The latest TEFAF Art Market Report which was unveiled today showed private sales of art and antiques rose over 2016 while auction sales declined.
They said what?! The week (27 February-5 March) in quotes from the art and antiques world
05 March 2017This week's installment of ATG's weekend quotes roundup includes a mud-covered gold torc, the Mayor of London and a recovered stolen bronze.
‘Ten police’ in ‘draconian’ ivory seizure
04 March 2017A VICTORIAN ivory barometer was taken by a team of police officers in a “draconian” swoop on a Derbyshire dealer.
Trade says business rates require wholesale reform
04 March 2017DEALERS have warned that “tinkering around the edges” of the current business rates system will not help small businesses. As many as a quarter of firms in the south of England and London are expected to face significant rises when new levels, the first changes for seven years, take effect in April.
London art dealer helps stolen bronze return to Berlin museum after 70 years
02 March 2017A bronze Etruscan statuette that was stolen from Berlin’s Antikensammlung during the Second World War has been returned after the intervention of London dealers Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch.
Christie’s defends attribution over $4.3m Rubens
25 February 2017The attribution of an oil sketch to Sir Peter Paul Rubens has pitted experts at Sotheby’s and Christie’s against each other after it hammered for $4.3m in New York last month.