Ceramics

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including highlights from the Allan and Sondra Gotlieb collection being exhibited at Kelmscott House in Hammersmith ahead of an auction at Kinghams.

E&H Manners has made two sales to London museums.

Simon Spero’s childhood was spent in the Home Counties.

Neumeister (25% buyer’s premium), a stalwart of the German auction market, held its last auction in Munich this summer.

Lots from the extraordinary collection constructed by the McAlpines come to auction in Berkshire

London gallery holds the first joint exhibition of works by ‘titans of the ceramic scene’ for 30 years

A 20in (51cm) transfer printed pearlware dish picturing the Durham Ox sold for £3000 (plus 25% buyer’s premium) at an Antiques & Interiors sale at Bellmans in Billingshurst, West Sussex, on September 1-2.

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.

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

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).

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

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).

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.

Bonhams’ mixed-owner ceramics sale on June 24-25 featured two exceptional English delftware dishes from ‘a distinguished family collection’ outside the UK.

Journalist Lucinda Bredin and her husband, author James Runcie, have developed tulip-mania. The couple, who married last year, have begun growing tulips and collecting tulipieres and vases.