Latest News Articles by Roland Arkell
Thai deer points to a high value
19 April 2021Estimated at £60-80 but sold at £11,500, this set of 14-point deer antlers provided Martel Maides (17.5% buyer’s premium) with a sensational result.
He’s not the retiring sort: Jeremy Lamond looks forward to Woolley & Wallis back in auction action
19 April 2021Auctioneer Jeremy Lamond looks forward to a packed sale schedule at Woolley & Wallis in Salisbury.
New home for a ceramics specialist and a new face at Freeman’s
17 April 2021A new home and name for a Gloucestershire auction house is among the latest updates in the art and antiques sector.
Peter Rabbit teawares star in our pick of five auction highlights
16 April 2021ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes a large group of Grimwades Beatrix Potter tea wares that made over 20-times estimate in Chippenham.
Ritual bronzes unearthed in Yorkshire come to auction at Hansons
12 April 2021A hoard of Romano-British bronzes discovered by metal detectorists in North Yorkshire last year will be offered at auction.
An Omar Ramsden silver spoon and a Polar medal are among the six lots to watch at auction
12 April 2021With estimates from £100-7000 here are six previews of upcoming items this week.
Beaton photos flourish in the saleroom
12 April 2021When Cecil Beaton photographed the Wyndham-Quin sisters in 1950, he chose to copy both the setting and poses used 50 years earlier by John Singer Sargent in The Wyndham Sisters.
Jewellery: how the enigmatic designs of Jugendstil are still bringing youth culture to the 21st century
12 April 2021How a firm of importers brought Jugendstil jewellery to Britain – with the help of a little German efficiency
Pick of the week: Apollino copy that stands up for itself
12 April 2021This copy of the Uffizi’s Medici Apollo (Apollino) is signed for the Italian sculptor Bartolomeo Cavaceppi (c.1716-99).
The gems of Rani Jindan offered at Bonhams
12 April 2021The Islamic and Indian Art sale at Bonhams (27.5/25% buyer’s premium) in London on March 30 included this diamond and emerald set forehead pendant (chand-tikka) from the collection of Maharani Jindan Kaur (1817-63).
Mdina Glass and Leon Osman silver shine bright
12 April 2021Michael Harris signature piece sells well at auction alongside Louis Osman silver spoons set
Auction previews: issue 2488
12 April 2021A selection of 15 upcoming lots from auctions taking place around the UK.
Royal jewels at Christie’s and Sotheby’s including a tiara that you can try on virtually
12 April 2021A spectacular parure of sapphires and diamonds, from the collection of Napoleon’s adoptive daughter, Stephanie de Beauharnais, Grand Duchess of Baden (1789-1860), is for sale at Christie’s Magnificent Jewels auction in Geneva on May 12.
The £15,000 delft puzzle solved
12 April 2021This particular form of English delft puzzle jug, with its distinctive knopped neck, seems to be peculiar to the second half of the 17th century.
New audience brings tiara back in vogue
12 April 2021The popularity of the tiara, that reached its peak in the decades before the onset of the First World War when diamonds from South Africa were in plentiful supply, has fluctuated across the 20th century in line with prosperity and fashion.
Multi-gem necklaces: ‘Perfect for the enquiring mind’
12 April 2021A recent Fine Jewellery sale at Fellows (23% buyer’s premium) in Birmingham included an unusual Victorian necklace.
Modernist market thrives for Grima and Gard
12 April 2021Dawsons’ (23% buyer’s premium) dedicated Jewellery, Watches & Silver auction in Maidenhead on March 11 included two unusual signed pieces by flavour-of-the-month Andrew Grima (1921-2007).
Harwood’s two for one offering
12 April 2021Oil bought by the vendor directly from the artist Lucy Harwood features a still-life on the reverse
Storied jewels from Mountbatten
12 April 2021Sotheby’s sold the collection of Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma at the end of last month.
Armorial head with link to Anne Boleyn stars in this week’s pick of five auction highlights
09 April 2021ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes a 16th century oak head of a crowned leopard that made 10-times estimate in Essex.