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Two abstract sculptures by Sir Anthony Caro have been acquired for the nation as part of the ‘Acceptance in Lieu’ scheme. Together they have settled £2.7m of inheritance tax due from the estate of Caro’s wife, the artist Sheila Girling, who died in 2015.

In our weekend series, Antiques Trade Gazette brings you a selection of quotes from dealers, auctioneers, collectors and others. This week it's Chippendale, Chester and cheeky cartoons.

The work of British society portrait painter Sir Oswald Birley (1880-1952) is being celebrated in a loan exhibition at London dealer Philip Mould.

A Chinese dish, once valued on the BBC’s ‘Antiques Roadshow’, has sold at Hansons Auctioneers for £230,000.

More than 60 attendees competed in teams at The Art Loss Register pub quiz on Wednesday night.

An antiques dealer and Kent Police are calling on the trade to be aware of stolen silver items from a shop in Tenterden in Kent.

Following the news of Hugh Hefner’s death yesterday, many tributes have revived the classic joke about “reading Playboy for the articles”.