Latest News Articles by Roland Arkell
Annual totals: Single-owner focus helps salerooms to boost trade
03 February 2025Focusing on the single-owner space helped both Dreweatts and Lyon & Turnbull to achieve strong numbers in 2024.
Tudor panel could be a Catherine of Aragon discovery
03 February 2025An early 16th century carved oak panel that may depict Catherine of Aragon and her daughter Mary (later Mary I) has sold for £13,000 at auction in Sussex.
‘Unrivalled’ collection of stoneglazed stonewares under saleroom gaze
03 February 2025A very fine collection of saltglaze stonewares comes for sale at BBR Auctions in Elsecar, South Yorkshire.
Jumbo-size Royal Doulton could be original Wembley showpiece
03 February 2025The Arabian Knights model of Princess Badoura is best known as the largest figure from the Royal Doulton HN series.
Lyon & Turnbull lined up Kelly collection to take a £1.49m total
03 February 2025Once just the preserve of one or two London firms, now such consignments are there to be won for many others
Banqueting scene tapestry created in Berlin gets second time lucky at London sale
03 February 2025A recent Fine & Decorative sale at Roseberys (26/25% buyer’s premium) was led by a very fine Berlin tapestry.
Delightful Danish characters from Royal Copenhagen dressed to impress
03 February 2025The Royal Copenhagen ‘Danish National Costumes’ series designed by sculptor and modeller Carl Martin-Hansen was produced between 1906-25.
Marvels come to the market including two large portrait plaques by a celebrated Limoges enameller
03 February 2025Paris auction staged at the Drouot centre offered a richly varied and valuable range of lots
‘Unrivalled’ collection of saltglaze stonewares to be sold at BBR without reserve
29 January 2025A very fine collection of saltglaze stonewares is coming for sale at BBR Auctions in Elsecar, North Yorkshire.
Pick of the Week: Souvenir seized from George IV coronation feast
27 January 2025Even when set against the standards of royal pageantry, the crowning of George IV at Westminster Abbey on July 19, 1821, was a lavish affair.
New event proposed to fill the hole left by London Art Week
27 January 2025Plans are being drawn up for a marketing initiative designed to replace London Art Week (LAW), the yearly festival of traditional art that folded at the end of 2024.
Welby porcelain collection up for sale at Woolley & Wallis
27 January 2025On February 6 Woolley & Wallis is selling the Sir Bruno Welby collection of European porcelain. Estimates across 350 lots cover an affordable range from £50 to £2500 with the group as a whole expected to fetch around £100,000.
Assembled with care: the sumptuous Zilkha collection comes to auction
27 January 2025Sale of Kunstkammer items amassed by the founder of Mothercare will bring English and Continental silver and furniture in the princely tradition to the rostrum
Cubist design with a difference
27 January 2025The Leicester engineer Robert Crawford Johnson (1882-1937) registered the design for the cube teapot in 1916.
Chess bidders make moves for early Staunton set and medieval piece
27 January 2025Full array sells for £26,000 while single lot hammers at £6500 as enthusiasts compete in salerooms
Jumbo tribute to a retiring colleague
27 January 2025The silver sale at Woolley & Wallis in Salisbury on February 4-5 includes this Indian silver inkstand by Hamilton & Co.
Thomas Bardwell views of Cheshire estate sell for £150,000 at Dreweatts
23 January 2025A striking example of English country house portraiture, commissioned to record architectural changes to a Cheshire family seat in the mid 18th century, has sold for £150,000 (plus premium).
Bohemian banker danced with joy when buying art
20 January 2025Lyon & Turnbull sold the collection of the banker and financier Bernard Kelly (1930-2022) at The Mall Galleries in London on January 15.