News topics

For holidaymakers who headed to Kent this summer, if you passed by Whitstable you may have seen a bench dedicated to the late Cindy Mainwaring Mack, the antiques fair doyenne.

An Edwardian ‘Regent Plate’ teapot by the Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Company of London sold to a UK bidder for £4300 (plus 25% buyer’s premium) at Adam Partridge in Liverpool.

Remarkably, given Chelsea FC’s modern-day huge spending and multi-year lucrative contracts, two of the squad who helped to win their first-ever league title in 1954-55 were amateurs.

A small collection of Egyptian antiquities comes for sale at Catherine Southon in Chislehurst, south-east London, on September 9.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including four paintings by Antonello da Messina (c.1430-79) being stolen from a museum in Sicily

This fine mother of pearl, citrine and chalcedony Arts & Crafts necklace was a gift from the Scottish artist Sir David Young Cameron (1865-1945) to his wife Jeanie on Christmas Day 1911.

The Age of Jazz figures issued in 1930 are among the most desirable of all Clarice Cliff models.

Archive and avian template for porcelain designs reflect the life of a remarkable 19th century polymath

Estimated at £10,000-15,000, a pair of Scottish Queen Anne tazze hammered for £16,000 at Dawsons (27.5% buyer’s premium) in Maidenhead, Berkshire on July 23.

It is with great sadness John Pye Auctions has announced that John Pye passed away on the evening of Monday, August 10, surrounded by his whole family, at the grand age of 95.