Latest News Articles by Roland Arkell
How to figure out the two-tier market for Doulton HN series
31 October 2022A selection of Doulton HN series rarities sold at three regional salerooms this month.
Sycamore with a special touch
31 October 2022The vast majority of Mauchline items seen today are engraved transfer-printed wares or other types of ‘fancy Scotch woodwork’ from the Victorian era such as fernware or tartanware.
Coper and Rie studio pottery supply stays healthy
31 October 2022Ceramics by Hans Coper (1920-81) and Lucie Rie (1902-95) have been assimilated into the collecting sphere of Modern British art with spectacular effect.
Bidders on the alert to find Chinese sleepers
31 October 2022The cylindrical brush pot or bitong appears to have been introduced into the repertoire of Chinese ceramic forms in the late 1620s.
Previews: issue 2566
31 October 2022A selection of 12 upcoming lots from auctions taking place around the UK and Ireland.
An 18th century 100 guinea gold medal stars in our pick of five auction highlights
28 October 2022ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes a medal awarded to the captain that navigated Indonesia’s Pitt Strait that made over 35-times estimate in Warrington.
Pick of the week: 1930s Cleveland furniture builds interest at auction
24 October 2022In the early 1930s, following the closure of its ironstone mines, unemployment in the east Cleveland region of North Yorkshire reached a harrowing 90%.
Getty cabinet one of most expensive pieces of English furniture ever sold
24 October 2022A George III mahogany china cabinet became one of the most expensive pieces of English furniture ever sold when it took $2.2m (£2m) during the opening salvos of Christie’s New York sale of the Ann and Gordon Getty collection.
Fabulous Tiffany flatware served up in a Gilded Age at Knightsbridge auction
24 October 2022The sale of Silver and Objects of Vertu at Bonhams Knightsbridge on October 20-21 was topped by a multi-estimate bid for a remarkable flatware service by Tiffany.
David Hockney printed works are among five lots to watch
24 October 2022With estimates from £1000-25,000, here are five previews of upcoming items.
Bold jewellery designer can boast a Bond connection
24 October 2022Charles de Temple is much admired as a key figure in the British 1960s modernist movement – one of the designers who ushered bold and abstract jewellery to the forefront of fashion.
Perfume burners and famous horse set the saleroom pace
24 October 2022Leading the sale of Fine Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks at Woolley & Wallis (25/12% buyer’s premium) in Salisbury on October 6 was a very fine pair of blue john and ormolu perfume burners by Matthew Boulton and John Fothergill.
Hugh got his skates on in Edinburgh 221 years ago
24 October 2022The sale at The Auction Centre (20% buyer’s premium) in Runcorn, Cheshire, on September 30 included this rare George III Scottish silver member’s badge for The Edinburgh Skating Club – the world’s first figure skating organisation.
Mayer rivals Pratt for promotion
24 October 2022Among the most desirable of all ‘Prattware’ transfer printed wares are the series of very rare and highly decorative advertising plaques produced for firms such as Crosse & Blackwell and Huntley & Palmers.
Macbeth collar found in a market
24 October 2022Glasgow School designer’s embroidered silk design instantly stood out in a box of fabric.
The perfect present for a love-ate relationship
24 October 2022Often from poor communities and mostly illiterate, men were limited in the ways in which they could plight their troth in 18th and 19th century Wales.
Token value back in the day, now worth thousands
24 October 2022Coin dealer Patrick Deane first became interested in 17th and 18th century trade tokens in 1970 when working at Spink and Son. He sold his first collection of around 1250 pieces in 1984.
Dane in Dutch East Indies
24 October 2022The Danish artist Hugo Vilfred Pedersen (1870-1959) studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen but afterwards spent 12 years travelling around Asia.
Top selling bronze horse stars in our pick of five auction highlights
21 October 2022ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes a bronze cast based on one of the great Giambologna’s (1529-1608) favourite models that made over 25-times estimate in Somerset.