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A blue and white porcelain dish, believed to be from the Ming period, took more than 100 times its estimate at a small auction house in North Yorkshire. It sold to a buyer from Japan, who had flown in for the sale.

A charcoal portrait by Henri Matisse (1869-1954) of the writer and Bloomsbury hostess Mary Hutchinson was knocked down at £2.6m at Sotheby’s latest Impressionist & Modern Art evening sale in London.

Shipping firm Cadogan Tate has been acquired by Amsterdam-based investment firm H2 Equity Partners.

Advertising legend Paul Arden (1940-2008), the mastermind behind some of Saatchi & Saatchi’s best-known campaigns, is commemorated in a photography exhibition in Petworth this month.

The final sale of stock from a once renowned architectural antiques business in Fulham raised more than £90,000 at Cambridge saleroom Cheffins.

Clarion Events has offered officially to run the November edition of Winter Art & Antiques Fair Olympia in a new format this winter.

Windsor House Antiques is joining in the celebrations around Thomas Chippendale’s (1718-79) tercentenary and its own 60th anniversary offering a number of pieces from the furniture maker’s day.