Latest News Articles by Roland Arkell
A qianjiang master at Frome auction
02 May 2022Led by Asian art specialist Lee Young, Dore & Rees will conduct a sale of Fine Asian Art in Frome on May 16.
Previews: issue 2541
02 May 2022A selection of 12 upcoming lots from auctions taking place around the UK and Ireland.
Sharpshooter targeted at Banbury sale
02 May 2022As famous last words go, those of Major General John Sedgwick in the American Civil War take some beating.
First light of neoclassicism
02 May 2022This 13in (33cm) ormolu vase candelabrum is a candidate for the earliest English neoclassical metalwork.
Bingham collection at Olympia Auctions includes Tibetan ritual trumpet
02 May 2022This 19th century Tibetan conch shell ritual trumpet, known as a dung-dkar, forms part of the Tony Bingham collection of musical instruments.
From a client of Bluett’s
02 May 2022The Asian art sale at Duke’s of Dorchester, scheduled for May, has been moved back to June 15 to incorporate a significant late consignment.
Record for ‘MoMa’s’ Aalto smoking table
02 May 2022This table by Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) sold for €92,000 (£77,700) at Stockholms Auktionsverk in Helsinki – a record for the Finnish designer.
Kangxi famille noire vase offered at Sotheby’s
02 May 2022The sale of Important Chinese Art at Sotheby’s on May 11 includes this monumental Kangxi famille noire vase estimated at £220,000-280,000.
Flying visit to New Guinea
02 May 2022This Victorian cased diorama of birds of paradise native to New Guinea sold for £18,000 to lead Tennants’ (22% buyer’s premium) Natural History and Taxidermy sale in Leyburn on April 20.
Early Ming vase at Lyon & Turnbull
02 May 2022Lyon & Turnbull’s Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art auction includes this Longquan yuhuchun vase with carved decoration from the early Ming period.
Front cover lot reappears at Chiswick Auctions
02 May 2022Chiswick Auctions holds three sales on May 16-17: Asian Art Part I and Part II and a catalogue titled The Chinese Art of Monochrome.
Going global: A preview of the spring series of UK Asian art sales
02 May 2022Globalisation, the phenomenon that first created a Western market for Asian art in the 17th century, is once more changing the way that Chinese works of art, in particular, are being sold.
Marks of a Jesuit
02 May 2022European subject matter adorns this rare 18th century painted enamel ‘Jesuit’ bowl.
Pair of Windsor Chairs sets a furniture puzzle
02 May 2022Pair sold at Somerset saleroom spark a debate on where and when they were made
'Heavenly' globe vase at Dreweatts
02 May 2022This 2ft (60cm) tianqiuping or ‘heavenly globe vase’ is seemingly the only one known with this decoration.
Kinkozan set
02 May 2022McTear’s in Glasgow conducts an Asian Art sale on June 10 where a set of 11 Satsuma plates is guided at £1000-2000.
Canadian ‘Black Battalion’ memento sells at Dix Noonan Webb
02 May 2022A medal awarded to a member of the only Canadian battalion composed of black soldiers to serve in the First World War has sold in a London auction.
Polish and Poise
02 May 2022Bonhams holds a sale titled Polish and Poise: Japanese Art Through the Centuries sale at New Bond Street on May 12.
Dragon bowl from collection of Admiral Robert Coote emerges
02 May 2022This Jiajing (1525-66) mark and period wucai dragon bowl will be offered for sale at Woolley & Wallis in Salisbury on May 17.
Chinese export service still in the family since c.1755
02 May 2022Dreweatts’ May 18 sale of Chinese ceramics and works of art includes a 42-piece Chinese export part service which has been in the same family since purchase in c.1755.