Auctioneers

The Autumn Fine Interiors auction at Hutchinson Scott in Skipton, North Yorkshire featured a Lancashire collection of Royal Worcester porcelain.

After more than 140 years out of the public eye, two maiolica plaques by the celebrated Renaissance artist Francesco Xanto Avelli (1487-1542) sold for £38,000 each at auction in Salisbury.

Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Bonhams are again selling in this market as the autumn season gets under way

Chorley’s (25% buyer’s premium) first dedicated Islamic & Indian sale section was based around a single consignment: an East India Company (EIC) archive that came by direct descent from Sir Charles William Rouse Boughton (1747-1821).

The top of this Regency pollard oak table features 52 oyster-veneered panels of mulberry wood, purportedly from the tree in William Shakespeare’s garden in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Sotheby’s has launched a new policy for packing, collection, delivery and shipping of items globally.

A seminal proto-modernist metalwork design by Christopher Dresser (1834-1904) emerged for sale in Edinburgh on October 14.

Kicking off the Frieze week auctions in London, Christie’s dedicated evening sale of works from the collection of British fashion magnate Peter Simon, the founder of the Monsoon fashion chain, raised £107.5m including premium.

Once part of the contents of Skibo Castle, an exceptional Louis Napoleon gilt-bronze surtout de table suite by Ferdinand Barbedienne comes under the hammer at Tennants.

Rare specimen banknotes from around the world donated to a British Heart Foundation (BHF) shop in Edinburgh have raised £85,860 in total at auction to help fund research.

A group of 18th century English furniture bought at Christie’s in 1992 provided an interesting measure of today’s market when it returned to auction at Spicers (20% buyer’s premium).

This 17th century Irish marriage locket was probably a gift from Robert Coppinger to his new wife Margarett in 1660.