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The latest series of Russian art sales in London generated a total of £39.2m (including premium) – roughly on a par with the £38.03m total at the equivalent series last year.

The UK government has issued an export bar for JMW Turner’s ‘Walton Bridges’, valued at £3.4m.

A superb Sikhote-Alin iron meteorite with an estimate of £25,000-30,000 is included in Duke’s sale A Taste of Luxury.

A hand painted bottle of 1926 60-year-old Macallan whisky sold for a hammer price of £1m at auction, equating to around £48,000 per single shot.

Sotheby’s is the latest auction house to pull the sale of rhinocerous horn artefacts from its auction.

The annual series of Russian art sales kicks off in London this week.

The latest series of Modern British art auctions in London generated a £47.2m total including premium which was significantly up on the equivalent sales last year.

The fingerprints of Old Master artist Rembrandt van Rijn have been discovered on a 17th century oil sketch by auction house Sotheby’s.

The latest series of Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary art auctions in New York generated an overall total of close to $2bn.

A pearl and diamond pendant from the French Queen Marie Antoinette’s personal collection has set a record price at auction for a natural pearl at Sotheby’s Geneva.

Proof once more of the allure of market-fresh goods, the collection of Roger Soame Jenyns (1904-76) excelled at Christie’s Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art sale on November 6.

The UK government has issued an export bar on a previously lost Antonio Canova bust that sold at a Sotheby’s auction earlier this summer.