Latest News Articles by Roland Arkell
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.
Controversial sale of original Troika moulds to finally go ahead
17 October 2022The original moulds from the Troika Pottery, kept in storage since the 1980s, come to auction at the end of this month.
Qing vase and Ming armchair make eight figure sums as bidders compete in Hong Kong
17 October 2022One boasted an illustrious ‘Fonthill heirloom’ provenance, the other a Hotung collection background
Classic English furniture from Al Thani collection returns to the saleroom
17 October 2022Icons of English furniture returned to the market when Sotheby’s Paris sold the contents from the Hôtel Lambert, a 17th century Parisian hôtel particulier on the Ile de La Cité.
Collection of Charles Darwin visiting cards coming to Essex auction
17 October 2022An album of 19 carte de visite portrait photographs of Charles Darwin is offered in Reeman Dansie’s Fine Art auction on November 8-9.
A model of the Sir John Betjeman statue from St Pancras station is among five lots to watch
17 October 2022With estimates from £1200-5000, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week.
Previews: issue 2564
17 October 2022A selection of 12 upcoming lots from auctions taking place around the UK and Ireland.
Chinese brush pot stars in our pick of five auction highlights sold this week
14 October 2022ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes a ‘Transitional period’ brush pot that made over 150-times estimate in Scotland.