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The two-day sale of works from the French dealership Talabardon & Gautier was held at Drouot by Ader (28% buyer’s premium)

The Antiques Rescue Centre (ARC) received its first donations from an auction house and has catalogued them for its records.

Historic dealership Mallett has been relaunched with furniture specialist Rufus Bird to lead the firm.

A garnet intaglio ring was bid to 450-times estimate at an auction in Birmingham after speculation that it could be one of the ‘lost’ Marlborough gems.

A small Modern British art fair is launching in Aldeburgh this summer to coincide with the town’s historic music festival.

Fifty years after buying it the first time, former dealer Ray Heath has been reunited with a beloved Moorcroft vase.

This typical genre scene by Italian painter Alessandro Milesi (1856-1945) was taken to a multi-estimate $37,500 (£31,000) at a US auction

Works by Albert Anker (1881-1910) are as popular with today’s Swiss collectors as they were in the late 19th century

While probably not made specifically for export, Chinese silver rice wine pots had arrived in Europe as early as the late 17th century.

This oil depicting the Acropolis in Athens by Hermann David Salomon Corrodi (1844-1905) was taken to £13,000 at Roseberys (25/20/12% buyer’s premium).

French artist Louis Tesson (1820-70) is best known for his genre paintings in the Middle East and north Africa.

This charcoal drawing of a Normandy milkmaid is one of four works by Jean-François Millet (1814-75) to be included in Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr’s Paris sale of the collection of Alain Delon

While demand for 19th century European art remains selective, recent sales have enjoyed good bidding on the ‘right’ material with appealing estimates