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Marchant’s exhibition Kangxi Biscuit and Pottery: A Private French Collection includes this early Kangxi famille verte biscuit porcelain circular sweetmeat set, c.1670.

Emerging dealer Shanshan Wang (trading as W Shanshan) collaborates with Stern Pissarro Gallery of St James’s for this edition of Asian Art in London.

Nanban, meaning ‘southern barbarians’, was the Japanese term for Europeans.

This autumn, as he refines his collecting impulses, Anthony Lovett is selling pieces from his collection of Kangxi porcelain

This Jin dynasty Cizhou-type double gourd vase comes for sale at Mallams in Cheltenham on November 8 with an estimate of £2000-3000.

The ancient Tokoname kiln was the largest and most prolific of the so-called six ancient kilns of Japan.

Futurist and Cubist feline design figures higly in an extensive single-owner collection of ceramics

Two watercolours by Frank Algernon Stewart (1877-1945) were among the best performers in a collection of works amassed by two former gallery owners.

Old Master drawings inscribed for Flemish artist Hans Bols blow away the estimates in Chartres

Woolley & Wallis will offer five catalogues this November – including two named single-owner sales.

The awards shortlist for Asian Art in London’s East Asian art season has been announced. The Antiques Trade Gazette Award for Outstanding East Asian Work of Art from an Auction House and the Apollo Award for Outstanding East Asian Work of Art from a Dealer each have three finalists. There is also an award for Modern & Contemporary Art

Following the record £64,000 for a Helen Allingham (1848-1926) watercolour at Philip Serrell (20% buyer’s premium) back in July, another group of works by the artist was offered at the Malvern saleroom.

ATG’s pick of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com, featuring both the highest prices over-estimate and the top prices paid online.

The auction record for a pair of chairs was broken twice as part of Christie’s Rothschild family auction series in New York.

Wassailing ceremonies on important feast days were a legacy of Anglo-Saxon culture.

Dutch artist used a technique that was much admired in his homeland as well as Britain

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including Modern British art specialist André Zlattinger heading back to Sotheby’s after 13 years at Christie's.

This Korean slip-inlaid (sanggam) celadon-glazed cup stand dates from the 13th century and the height of the Goryeo dynasty (918-1392).

Shozo Shimamoto (1928-2013) was a founding member of the Gutai movement that looked for new ways to apply paint to a canvas.

Cecil Aldin (1870-1935) was best known for his portraits of dogs and other animals, but romanticised village and hunting scenes were also very popular.