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ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes a watercolour of steamboats on the Rhine that made over 60 times estimate in Derby.

A Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) portrait from the early 1930s set the second highest price for the artist at auction as Sotheby’s kicked off its latest fortnight of Modern and Contemporary art auctions in New York.

A New Testament bible formerly owned by the French King Jean II but believed to have been in the UK for more than 600 years has been temporarily barred from export.

A medieval panel discovered above a stove in a kitchen in France has been bought by The Louvre Museum.

A collection of Irish-related items will go on show in Dublin ahead of an online auction described by Bonhams as its “first on the island of Ireland”.

With estimates from £150, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week.

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of a rare ceramic cat given by David Hockney to strangers who helped him as a student fetching a record price at a Chelmsford auction.