Latest News Articles by Roland Arkell
Guide gets to the point: needlework sample album highlight of Nottinghamshire sale
18 July 2022Just as the title reads, this album offered by Mellors & Kirk in Nottingham contains Specimens of Needle-Work Executed in the Female Model School, Kildare-Place, Dublin.
A silver bear pin cushion and a portrait of Thomas Hardy are among five lots to watch
18 July 2022With estimates from £200-7000, here are five previews of upcoming items.
Previews: issue 2552
18 July 2022A selection of 12 upcoming lots from auctions taking place around the UK.
A Rolex chronograph rarity surfaces in Italy
18 July 2022The reference 3330 antimagnetic is one of the rarest pre-Oyster chronographs made by Rolex.
Important custom-made doll’s house sells for £30,000
18 July 2022‘The Gregson House’ and its contents date from the early Victorian period.
Pair of ‘Bakewell decorated’ Wedgwood plates bid to over 30 times estimate
18 July 2022Estimated at £40-60, a pair of puce decorated creamware plates sold for a surprise £2000 at Bamfords (21% buyer’s premium) in Derbyshire.
Pick of the week: Vases of true exhibition quality
18 July 2022Although he initially specialised in small furnishing objects and statuettes, the Parisian bronzier Victor Paillard (1805-86) began exhibiting with more elaborate creations in the 1840s.
Watches: Sherpas on the rise
18 July 2022ATG reports on the market for the Enicar series of watches that were taken to Everest
Play the name game for value
18 July 2022The watch market can be obsessed with brand names – and the best names do come with a price tag to match.
Rolex Military Submariners with macho provenance command high prices at Bonhams
18 July 2022Two Rolex tool watches were estimated to bring £80,000-120,000 each at a recent Fine Watches sale at Bonhams’ (27.5/25% buyer’s premium).
Tuning up: musical lots make impressive saleroom results
18 July 2022This early 17th century harpsichord is inscribed to the name baton for Andreas Ruckers, Antwerp, 1614.
Mary Ireland ‘fabric mosaics’ emerge from collection of dealer Paul Reeves
18 July 2022Eighteen works by the Birmingham School artist Mary Ireland (1891-1980) were offered at a recent Lyon & Turnbull’s (25/20% buyer’s premium) sale.
Inscribed and dated delft in demand in Glasgow and Lewes sales
18 July 2022An English delft drug jar offered by Great Western Auctions (24% buyer’s premium) in Glasgow was both a polychrome and a documentary piece.
Victorian bat brooch stars in our pick of six auction highlights
15 July 2022ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes a rare Victorian diamond and ruby bat brooch that sold for 45-times estimate in Somerset.
Sèvres tea service celebrated King George’s regal recovery
11 July 2022A remarkable Sèvres part tea service made to mark the recovery of George III from illness in 1789 was among the unheralded highlights of this year’s London sales season.
Furniture suite could be first ‘museum quality’ ivory sale
11 July 2022A suite of solid ivory and gilt furniture sold by Christie’s on July 7 appears to be the first auction lot to benefit from the exemption to the Ivory Act allowing the sale of items of ‘outstandingly high artistic, cultural and historical value’.
Vendor’s prayers answered by a £480,000 nut
11 July 2022The major summer sales of works of art included a boxwood prayer nut and Rothschild provenanced vases.
Pick of the week: A rediscovered carving emerges at Sotheby's sale
11 July 2022Despite appearing in a 1930s photograph held in the MAK Museum, Vienna, this wood carving of Adam and Eve seems to have hitherto eluded scholars of the German woodcarver Leonhard Kern (1588-1662).
Castellani brooch lights up first Frome jewellery auction
11 July 2022Topping the bill at Dore & Rees in Frome, Somerset on July 6 was this 2in (5cm) archaeological revival brooch by Castellani.
A floral still-life and an oak sideboard are among seven lots to watch
11 July 2022With estimates from £200-20,000, here are seven previews of items coming up at auction this week.