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Joy Barnes (b.1912), a life-long artist and local Somerset resident who turns 100 next month, was present in the saleroom to watch her collection of Modern British art and studio ceramics sold by Greenslade Taylor Hunt in Taunton.

Pictured here are delegates on the steps of the Ashmolean Museum during the Oxford Conference, a two-day event for auctioneers organised by Rupert Toovey of Toovey’s and Jeremy Lamond of Halls.

Three men have been jailed for a total of 18 years for their involvement in the theft of Chinese artefacts from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

The 14th century Wenlok Jug has been returned to a Luton museum after it was stolen in May.

This silver-gilt centrepiece is believed to be a prototype for a set of four soup tureens in the Royal Collection designed by John Flaxman (1756-1826) and made by John Bridge (1755-1834) for George IV.

The technological breakthrough of a clock which could keep accurate time to within one second every month was an unheard-of feat in 1727.

In 2011, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts dissolved its controversial authentication board after a string of legal challenges. Now the equivalent foundations for both Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat have cut their ties with the art market and will no longer authenticate works.