Bed

Woolley & Wallis (27% buyer’s premium) considered the Elizabethan bed offered on October 1 to be to ‘by far the most original to be offered at auction in recent years’.

A suite of three oak panelled bedroom pieces with original invoices from the Robert Thompson workshop were the stand-out lots at a recent sale at Gildings (24% buyer’s premium) of Market Harborough.

The auction market can be a fickle beast, as results for the same items offered on separate occasions sometimes show.

The residual contents of Yorkshire country house Copgrove Hall were sold by Duggleby Stephenson (25% buyer’s premium) in York.

The survival rate for 16th century and earlier furniture is much lower than that of 17th century examples.

This striking unique bed was designed in 1935 by poet and patron Edward James together with interior decorator Norris Wakefield.

Pitched at a modest £300-500, a harlequin set of eight Charles II joined oak back stools was one of a number of successes among the furniture offered at Tennants’ (22% buyer’s premium) Leyburn sale.

Rosey Ford of Serendipity Antiques specialises in 18th century furniture, especially four poster beds, extending dining tables, large sets of chairs and “just about anything you can think of”.

The market for Chinese furniture has come on leaps and bounds in 20 years.

Further lots from ancient country seat star alongside a stellar specialist collection.

Appeal of Weston Hall contents particularly enhanced by 20th century occupants

Nearly 200 items of Al Capone memorabilia are coming to the market for the first time after being consigned to a California auction by his granddaughters.

Ornate piece of c.1780 furniture from sheikh’s collection heads a sell-out auction

This half-tester bed with its carved heraldic lions and painted and gilt panels is part of an extensive bedroom suite made c.1870 by Collier & Plucknett.

The best of the furniture from the contents of Faringdon House went to a Christie’s (25/20/12.5% buyer’s premium) Interiors sale, but perhaps the more interesting items from the 18th century Oxfordshire manor were handled by Wiltshire saleroom Kidson-Trigg (20% buyer’s premium).

A relatively unfamiliar name in Nordic works is under the spotlight at Bruun Rasmussen in Copenhagen in its Nordic Design auction on Thursday, June 8.