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FOR four generations, and more than 150 years, the Stinton family of porcelain painters were represented at the Worcester factories.

“NICE house, shame about the pictures,” must have been many people’s sentiment when they opened the catalogue of the July 21 sale at Bonhams Knightsbridge (19.5/10% buyer’s premium) of the contents of Marwell House, Hampshire. This fine, if rather rambling, red-brick Georgian house had, for many years, been the home of Dorothea, Viscountess Kelburn, the daughter of Sir Archibald Lyle, whose family made a fortune out of shipping and sugar refining.

SHAME on veteran organiser Cindy Mainwaring for mentioning the ‘C’ word when the summer is barely out.

CONGRATULATIONS to Middlesex-based organiser Sue Cruttenden who this month celebrates 25 years of her fortnightly Sunbury Antiques Market at Kempton Park Race Course, Sunbury-on-Thames.

THE owners of Chicago’s Navy Pier have contracted Pfingsten Publishing to produce a new annual art and antiques event replacing two major fairs at the Windy City’s top venue.

A NEW freelance auctioneer service has been launched in the UK and has been taking its first commissions.

ONE of the pioneers of the vogue for Japanese and Chinese design in the 1870s, Joseph Theodore Deck was also one of the first 19th century potters to explore Isnik floral designs and colour schemes. It was during his efforts to replicate the Turkish palette that he perfected the turquoise glaze that came to be known as bleu de Deck, or Deck blue.