Overseas buyers make curate’s egg taste better…

IF THERE is one objet d’art that best characterises the antiques market at present it is the curate’s egg – good in parts, but bad overall. The flawed ovum’s brighter regions encompass most low-value collectables – ceramics included.

This provincial sale encompassed almost every area of English ceramics with some quality Sèvres and …

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