Latest News Articles by Roland Arkell
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.
The last hurrah: Sworders to offer dealer’s stock without reserve as Guinevere Antiques finally closes
20 January 2025After 61 years on the King’s Road, Guinevere Antiques shut its doors for the last time at Christmas.
Extraordinary late imperial Russian enamels on offer in US saleroom
20 January 2025Market for imperial Russian works of art appears to have shifted to US given global circumstances
Fijian collection came from missionary Miss Tookey
20 January 2025The core of the December 10 Out of Europe sale at the Cardiff rooms of Rogers Jones (22% buyer’s premium) was formed by the collection of Miss Annie Elizabeth Tookey.
Joshua Reynolds portrait leads sale of banker Bernard Kelly’s collection
17 January 2025Lyon & Turnbull sold the collection of the banker and financier Bernard Kelly (1930-2022) at The Mall Galleries in London on January 15.
Long-lost Cartier Egyptian revival jewel emerges at Salisbury auction
15 January 2025A long-lost Cartier Egyptian revival jewel, previously known from an advert in ‘The Illustrated London News’, has been rediscovered.
Collection of Barbara Hepworth drawings and working notes sells at Chiswick Auctions
15 January 2025An archive of annotated sketches and correspondence showing the working methods of sculptor Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975) sold for £20,000 at the end of last year.
Christie’s to sell Mothercare founder’s prominent silver collection
14 January 2025The kunstkammer collection assembled over half a century by Selim Zilkha (1927-2022), founder of Mothercare, comes for sale in New York next month.
Ashbee peacock necklace struts its stuff
13 January 2025A textbook example of British Arts & Crafts jewellery – a Guild of Handicraft peacock pendant necklace designed by Charles Robert Ashbee – sold for $35,000 (£28,100) in the US at the end of 2024.
The hand of Thomas Lawrence: Second version of Lady Suffield portrait offered at Chiswick Auctions
13 January 2025A rediscovered work by Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) and his studio comes for sale at Chiswick Auctions on January 21.
Thunderbirds are going, going, gone at auction
13 January 2025A rare group of Fairylite Thunderbirds action figures sold for £2100 in Tennants’ (24% buyer’s premium) latest Toys, Models, Collectables & Sporting sale.
Wartime Mouseman shows ‘striking’ colour contrast to Seventies pieces
13 January 2025A suite of three oak panelled bedroom pieces with original invoices from the Robert Thompson workshop were the stand-out lots at a recent sale at Gildings (24% buyer’s premium) of Market Harborough.