Latest News Articles by Roland Arkell
Behind the lens of Eugène Cuvelier
18 April 2022The photographica department at Chiswick Auctions will be taking over the firm’s South Kensington gallery for the duration of May when highlights from the 19th & 20th Century Photography sale on May 24 will be on view.
The world in stereo
18 April 2022The sale of Photographica & Cameras at Special Auction Services in Newbury on April 26 features this complete set of 'Tour Of The World' stereoviews by the Keystone View Company of Meadville, Pennsylvania.
18th century Windsor chairs star in our pick of five auction highlights
15 April 2022ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes a pair of Windsor chairs painted with two noble coats of arms.
Pick of the week: ‘The talk of the Staffordshire community’
11 April 2022As a general rule prices for most pairs of Staffordshire dogs, the quintessential Victorian fireside ornament, have dipped markedly in the past generation.
Sèvres ‘Etruscan’ plates receive just desserts in Lincolnshire
11 April 2022Plates from a documented mid-19th century Sèvres dessert set sold for £36,000 at Golding Young & Mawer in Grantham on April 6.
US bidder chooses French seasons from Spain
11 April 2022A hitherto unrecorded set of four late 17th or early 18th century marble seasons statues took £230,000 (plus 25% buyer’s premium) at Summers Place Auctions in West Sussex on March 29.
Set of 12 oak dining chairs from a Derbyshire country house are among four lots to watch this week
11 April 2022With estimates from £500-15,000, here are four previews of upcoming items.
Qwerty spelt the end for the Niagara
11 April 2022The Blickensderfer Typewriter Co of Stanford, Connecticut, introduced the Niagara ‘index’ typewriter in 1902.
A trio of Arts & Crafts designers in focus
11 April 2022While the market for post-war wares by Thompson’s of Kilburn – particularly the animal and figure carvings – has grown substantially in recent years, the ‘prime period’ for Mouseman collecting remains the 1920s-30s.
Cat sat on a shelf came all the way from Egypt
11 April 2022Cats were represented in the social and religious practices of ancient Egypt for several millennia.
Anti-slavery sentiments in ceramics
11 April 2022This rare creamware cylindrical tankard is printed with a copy of A Cudgelling Match between English and French Negros in the Island of Dominica by Agostino Brunias (1730-96).
At auction: Peruse, bid and buy – online or in the room
11 April 2022Whereas buying at fairs often involves a heavy dose of serendipity, buying at auction tends to be a more focused and considered affair.
Previews: issue 2538
11 April 2022A selection of 13 upcoming lots from auctions taking place around the UK.
Top-selling Company School painting of a monkey stars in our pick of six auction highlights sold this week
08 April 2022ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes a striking 18th century Indian miniature of a monkey that made over five-times estimate in South London.
Dix Noonan Webb rebrands as Noonans
04 April 2022Auction house Dix Noonan Webb (DNW) will be shortening its name to Noonans from the end of April.
Isnik tile makes second spectacular sale appearance
04 April 2022An Isnik fritware tile familiar to ATG readers made its second visit to the saleroom last week.
A collection of decoy pigeons and a Great Exhibition piano are among seven lots to watch
04 April 2022With estimates from £150-5000, here are seven previews of upcoming items.
Japanese new weave wave
04 April 2022During the Meiji period, the Kyoto artist and entrepreneur Nishimura Sozaemon (1855-1935) used Western mechanised weaving techniques to develop new styles of Japanese decorative textiles.
Delft teapots belie humble origins and are now popular and pricey
04 April 2022Teapots made in delftware were never particularly functional nor popular in either England or the Netherlands.
Bidder’s Tomkin search brings a result
04 April 2022The Kent artist William Stephen Tomkin (1861-1940) is best known as a proficient watercolour painter of marine subjects and a draughtsman who worked for General August Pitt Rivers (of Oxford museum fame) between 1882-90.