Latest News Articles by Roland Arkell
Italian sofa stars at huge Plas Teg house sale
21 April 2025Welsh auction house Rogers Jones (26.4% buyer’s premium inc VAT) recently conducted its largest house clearance in over 30 years: the principal contents of Plas Teg in Flintshire.
Interiors: Furniture that fits the bill
21 April 2025Whatever interior statement one hopes to achieve, it is so often the furniture that really makes a room.
Bureau ‘given by Churchill’ to admired Sir Bindon
21 April 2025Estimated at €1000, this 19th century Irish mahogany bureau with a link to Sir Winston Churchill sold for €9500 (£8000) at Fonsie Mealy (25% buyer’s premium) in Castlecomer, Co Kilkenny.
Idiosyncratic inspiration from the early years of the ‘age of mahogany’
21 April 2025A number of hall chairs of this idiosyncratic type from the early years of the ‘age of mahogany’ are known and have appeared on the market.
Pitch proves perfect second time around as table sells successfully
21 April 2025What a difference three years and an estimate can make.
West Country oak settle in demand in East Anglian auction
21 April 2025The second part of the Beedham Collection – a fine array of early oak furniture and associated works of art from the Derbyshire dealing family – came for sale at Bishop & Miller (25% buyer’s premium) in Glandford, Norfolk, on March 19.
Pietra Dura is a top find of Bishop’s House
21 April 2025The contents of the Bishop’s House in Newry, standing on the Clanrye river in counties Down and Armagh, were sold by Victor Mee (20% buyer’s premium) earlier this year.
Moller chairs sit nicely together
21 April 2025A recent sale at Burstow & Hewitt (20% buyer’s premium) in Battle, East Sussex was led by six Danish rosewood dining chairs designed by Niels Otto Moller for JL Moller.
Rediscovered Hans Coper vase found in garden flies over estimate at Chiswick Auctions
17 April 2025A monumental work by Hans Coper (1920-81) which was found in a London garden among weeds and covered in snails sold at more than three times estimate at Chiswick Auctions.
Trump's tariffs: trade seeks clarity on antiques exemptions as price of gold soars
14 April 2025Dealers and collectors are still seeking clarity on whether the US ‘Liberation Day’ trade tariffs will apply to antiques.
On island time – the Archibald Knox story
14 April 2025Archibald Knox (1864-1933) is known today as the genius behind the Cymric and Tudric ranges sold by Liberty & Co in the early 20th century.
Sienese art celebrated in Christie’s selling show
14 April 2025Christie’s private sales department is holding a selling exhibition titled Siena and the Renaissance.
It was ‘art first, objects second’ for Knox at home
14 April 2025If Knox is best known today for his work with Liberty & Co, in his own time on the Isle of Man he was better recognised as an art teacher and for his study of the local Celtic crosses and standing stones.
Mr Carter’s tavern mug is no small beer at £3400
14 April 2025Estimated at £500-800, this large Vauxhall salt-glazed stoneware tavern mug sold for £3400 at Moore Allen & Innocent (21% buyer’s premium) in Cirencester, Gloucestershire.
My word, what a Louis Vuitton trunk...
14 April 2025Trunks for books which could be placed on a table, showcasing the volumes inside, are among Louis Vuitton’s most popular and collectable early models.
The Sunnyside furniture project
14 April 2025The few surviving pieces of furniture designed by Archibald Knox were mainly produced at the Sunnyside Workshops in Douglas, founded by Knox with his friend and patron Wilson James Ashburner in 1899.
The Olympia exhibition that led to a dealing career
14 April 2025When Anthony Bernbaum curated the exhibition Archibald Knox, Beauty and Modernity, a Designer Ahead of his Time at the Olympia International Art & Antiques Fair in 2014, he was working in investment banking.
Archibald Knox, a collecting history
14 April 2025A closer look at the post-war appreciation of the great designer including exhibitions and auction landmarks
Whitefriars Banjo vase plucks a top price
14 April 2025One of perhaps only two known ruby red versions of the Whitefriars Banjo vase sold for £17,200 in Devon on April 9.