Cheffins

Artist’s masterpiece sold earlier this year is followed up by plates, prints and paintings from same source

Silver flatware once owned by the so-called Ladies of Llangollen was offered in Cheffins’ (25% buyer’s premium) latest Jewellery, Silver & Watches auction in Cambridge.

A signed postcard of Oscar Wilde from an image by Alfred Ellis of Baker Street impressed in a timed online sale at Cheffins (25% buyer’s premium).

The most extensive selection of works to come on the open market provides an opportunity to assess the market for the Modern British print specialist

While few will welcome the news that Bonhams – the last of the major auction houses to hold regular sales Japanese works of art in London – is moving its department to Paris (ATG No 2690), there will be opportunities for UK salerooms that continue to plough this selective but occasionally fruitful furrow.

With crossover interest to several collecting disciplines, early manuscript recipe and remedy books continue to thrive at auction.

Result for album of watercolours underlines the current demand in salerooms for such subjects

In 1950, the Swiss artist, architect and designer Pierre Jeanneret (1896-1967) joined his cousin Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (who assumed the pseudonym Le Corbusier) to create a new capital of Punjab.

The Fine Sale on March 26 at Cheffins in Cambridge included a group of pictures consigned by a descendant of the artist known as Philip Villamil of Jamaica (1814-78).

Cambridge auction house Cheffins is celebrating its 200th anniversary this year.

Artists who had been achieving modest levels of success are catching up with the help of young collectors

Comprehensive group of medical records from East India Company surgeon star in eclectic sale