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A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including the the return of a 3600-year-old tablet showing part of the Epic of Gilgamesh being handed back to Iraq by the US.

While Americans demonstrated by throwing tea into the harbour, the British registered complaints by putting the leaves into suitably decorated teapots.

Now well-established London auction house marks landmark with a wide-ranging sale

Experts split over El Greco attribution but Holy Family painting offered in Germany gets away

It was a case of the cows coming home after 30 years for one buyer at a recent auction.

The sale of July 15 proved to be its most successful since lockdown for auction house Bellmans (22% buyer’s premium).

A selection of 15 upcoming lots from auctions taking place around the UK.

Available to buy for £2800, this 12 x 18in (30 x 45cm) oil of a grey Andalusian horse in a landscape by Marcus Hodge (b.1966) forms part of a new show dedicated to the equine artist’s latest works.

For most of the second half of the 19th century the Viennese silversmith Josef Carl Klinkosch produced all types of silverware and objects of vertu.

Waddington Custot is one of the latest galleries to celebrate the work of pioneering 20th century women.

Estimated at £100-150, this pair of 4in (11cm) Chinese vases sold for an estimate-busting £39,000 at Gorringe’s (23% buyer’s premium) in Lewes.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.

Every lot of a collection of Meissen porcelain, restituted earlier this year to the heirs of Dr Franz Oppenheimer, was sold in a recent US sale.

A portrait of Anglo-Irish satirist Jonathan Swift that has hung at Howth Castle since 1735 sold for €234,000 (£200,000) this month.