Latest News Articles by Roland Arkell
The Edo pecking order
23 October 2023The Woolley & Wallis Japanese sale includes some good examples of the Edo period porcelains that wowed the European courts of the 17th and early 18th centuries.
Giovanni Battista Cali panel hammered down at auction
23 October 2023This Italian polychrome lava stone and pietra dure panel is probably by the Sicilian mosaicist Giovanni Battista Cali.
Take a kesi seat cover or two
23 October 2023This pair of kesi chair covers woven with front-facing dragons against an apricot ground, date from the late Ming or early Qing dynasty period.
Peter Orr silver trophy races away to 10 times low estimate
23 October 2023This colonial-era Indian silver horse racing trophy is marked for Peter Orr and Sons of Madras.
Dennison’s love of the Samurai
23 October 2023The art of the Samurai comes to Essex firm Sworders on November 2.
Korean banquet fills up eight panels
23 October 2023This 18th century Korean eight-panel screen depicts a subject borrowed from Ming prototypes: a banquet honouring the famed Tang dynasty general Guo Ziyi.
Silver makes Kinghams auction debut
23 October 2023Kinghams (25% buyer’s premium) had held its inaugural Silver & Objects of Vertu sale on September 8.
Kenneth Lawley collection on offer at Sotheby’s
23 October 2023Sotheby’s Important Chinese Art sale on November 1 includes the collection of Dr Kenneth Lawley (1937-2023), a longtime member of the Oriental Ceramic Society.
Walden’s prancing horse
23 October 2023Duke’s Asian Art sale in Dorchester on November 29 features works from the family of the late John Walden, an active member of the Oriental Ceramic Society from the 1950s.
Chinese and Japanese art makes Olympia sale debut
23 October 2023The first stand-alone Chinese and Japanese Works of Art sale at Olympia Auctions in London on November 8 includes this pair of Yongzheng period famille-rose fishbowls on European giltwood stands estimated at £40,000-60,000.
All you need is light: a Beatles table lamp
23 October 2023This kitschy Beatles table lamp discovered in a house clearance sold for an impressive £950 (estimate £100-150) on September 14.
The beast of the Tang
23 October 2023Despite the proliferation of pottery horse sculptures from the Tang period, they were (by imperial edict) reserved for the aristocratic class.
Elephants at the Qing court
23 October 2023Bonhams’ general Asian art sale in Knightsbridge on October 30 includes this late 18th century hardstone, mother-of-pearl and lacquer table screen.
‘Dragon’ bowls from the China trade
23 October 2023This pair of yellow ground and green enamelled ‘dragon’ bowls have Qianlong six-character marks and are of the period.
Shou Loa with provenance
23 October 2023The November 6-7 Asian Art sale at Chiswick Auctions includes this Song dynasty ding ware pottery figure of Shou Loa, god of longevity.
A Transitional moment in a collector’s life
23 October 2023This autumn, as he refines his collecting impulses, Anthony Lovett is selling pieces from his collection of Kangxi porcelain
Vase bought in Shanghai 1933
23 October 2023This Jin dynasty Cizhou-type double gourd vase comes for sale at Mallams in Cheltenham on November 8 with an estimate of £2000-3000.
Louis Wain fans get claws into his ceramic cats
23 October 2023Futurist and Cubist feline design figures higly in an extensive single-owner collection of ceramics
Lawrence jades lead five-star Salisbury series
23 October 2023Woolley & Wallis will offer five catalogues this November – including two named single-owner sales.