Decorative Art

Dealer Esme Parish is moving on from her full-time role of offering antique silver from her base in Singapore.

Belief in divine ability to cure the sick persisted among Stuart heirs in exile even as the Jacobite dream died

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.

A set of 24 Art Deco Gallia animalier knife rests hammered for $8000 (£5950) against a guide of $3000-5000 at an Objet sale at Wright (28% buyer’s premium) in Chicago, Illinois.

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

An unusual lot offered in the Fine Silver sale at Anderson & Garland (25% buyer’s premium) in Newcastle upon Tyne was a ‘pair’ of oval teapots and stands modelled as staved barrels: one a ‘period’ example with marks for John Harris, London 1786, the other by early Victorian maker John Terry (London 1838).

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

A rare Edwardian silver and enamel cigarette case was the unexpected highlight of a timed online sale held by Bushey Auctions (20% buyer’s premium) in Hertfordshire.

A recent sale at Moore Allen & Innocent (21% buyer’s premium) in Cirencester included a massive Victorian silver tray or salver by the prominent silversmith Edward Kerr Read (London 1873).

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.

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.