Decorative Art

This 9ct gold pocket compendium with hallmarks for Alfred Dunhill & Sons, London, 1950, hammered at the lower end of a £15,000-20,000 estimate at Fellows in Birmingham on August 21.

Elektro was built in 1937 by industrial giant Westinghouse in Mansfield, Ohio, for the 1939 World’s Fair in New York: the first robot in the world that could walk, talk and even count on his fingers.

The name Ducret has been closely connected to the world of faience ever since the 1950s, when Siegfried Ducret published the first of numerous indispensable handbooks for collectors of and dealers in European porcelain and faience.

It comes with very great sadness to announce the death of Anna Katherine Harvey Haughton (1937-2026), a figure so well known and loved by the art world, who died peacefully on August 9, surrounded by her family.

An Edwardian ‘Regent Plate’ teapot by the Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Company of London sold to a UK bidder for £4300 (plus 25% buyer’s premium) at Adam Partridge in Liverpool.

Remarkably, given Chelsea FC’s modern-day huge spending and multi-year lucrative contracts, two of the squad who helped to win their first-ever league title in 1954-55 were amateurs.

The Age of Jazz figures issued in 1930 are among the most desirable of all Clarice Cliff models.

Estimated at £10,000-15,000, a pair of Scottish Queen Anne tazze hammered for £16,000 at Dawsons (27.5% buyer’s premium) in Maidenhead, Berkshire on July 23.

A Wedgwood Fairyland lustre rarity – an original work on paper design by Daisy Makeig-Jones (1881-1945) – featured among the top lots in the July 12 auction at Lion and Unicorn (28% buyer’s premium).

Traders – both newcomers and regulars – enjoy good sales at bustling fair in Kent

The heyday of Dutch and English tinglazed earthenwares coincided with the reign of William and Mary.

This Loetz Klostermühle vase romped past its $600-1200 guide to hammer for $8500 (£6340) at World Auction Gallery (25% buyer’s premium) in East Meadow, New York.

Safavid examples from the north London dealer's collection find their latest homes after palace demolition

A sale of items from the holdings of a pioneer ‘craft’ collector at Rago-Wright in Lambertville, New Jersey, was topped by a Cycladic arrow form by Hans Coper (1920-81).

While the Elsecar Heritage Centre in Barnsley is undergoing major restoration work and drainage improvements, many contractors on site have had cause to thank the staff at bottle and advertising specialist BBR Auctions (20% buyer’s premium).

A Moorcroft Moonlit Blue Landscape vase made for the British Empire Exhibition in Wembley in 1924 led the Design sale at Lay’s (21% buyer’s premium) in Penzance on July 23.