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ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes a 16th century oak head of a crowned leopard that made 10-times estimate in Essex.

The J Paul Getty Museum has acquired a work by Artemisia Gentileschi (1593- c.1654) that had previously sold for a record auction price in 2019.

Public access to artworks in UK collections has been given a boost with a tie up between Bloomberg Philanthropies and Art UK.

The latest Movers and Shakers across the art and antiques sector.

With estimates from £300-12,000 here are four previews of upcoming items this week.

Sotheby’s reported 1400 bidders from 55 countries participating in the auction of the collection of Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma (1924-2017).

The most popular stories on this website over the last week included news of a man jailed after antiquities estimated to be worth more than £76,000 were found in his lorry by the UK’s Border Force.