Woolley & Wallis

The Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at Woolley & Wallis in Salisbury on February 19 included this striking tribal mask from central Africa.

A rare visitor to the auction room came in the form of this pocket-sized Victorian sand picture book.

Sir Bruno Welby (b.1928), a member of both the English Ceramic Circle and the French Porcelain Society, has bought European porcelain since the 1950s.

The Sir Bruno Welby collection (see main story in this edition) sold at Woolley & Wallis shone the spotlight on two familiar names from the early English porcelain literature: Jefferyes Hamett O’Neale (1719/20-97) and Fidelle Duvivier (1740-after 1796).

On February 6 Woolley & Wallis is selling the Sir Bruno Welby collection of European porcelain. Estimates across 350 lots cover an affordable range from £50 to £2500 with the group as a whole expected to fetch around £100,000.

The silver sale at Woolley & Wallis in Salisbury on February 4-5 includes this Indian silver inkstand by Hamilton & Co.

Some strong bids were achieved in 2024 for the best of the Della Robbia Pottery but none higher than the £14,000 tendered at Woolley & Wallis (plus 26% buyer’s premium) for a large plaque by Cassandra Annie Walker.

This oak panelled back armchair can be firmly dated to the Commonwealth period.

Portrait of artist's wife stands out among works by more famous names in Salisbury saleroom

A forgotten moment from the engaging story of the Martin family of potters is told through a teapot sold at Woolley & Wallis’ British Art Pottery & Design auction on December 3.

While the buying audience still loves its brand names and big stones, jewellery with a narrative is a strength of the market

Although the size of the collecting audience is changing - and the arrival or departure of just one or two committed buyers can make a significant difference to prices - British provincial wares can command decent prices.

In his magnus opus Memorials of the Jeypore Exhibition, 1883, Thomas Holbein Hendley (1847-1917) documents what he called “a new and most interesting style of engraved silver plate developed in Alwar”.

A focus on four Clarice Cliff chargers sold in October at two different salerooms

Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll were both closely associated with Country Life magazine in its formative years from 1897.

The 135-lot private collection of renowned porcelain specialist Rod Jellicoe revealed the current state of a market long after its ‘vintage era’'

The moment Johann Böttger oversaw the successful production of hard-paste porcelain at Meissen in Germany, the race was on for other European countries to create ‘white gold’.