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The most popular stories on this website over the last week included news of a previously unrecorded porcelain tea bowl and saucer attributed to the John Bartlam factory of Cain Hoy, South Carolina, being offered for sale at Adam Partridge.

Sotheby’s has launched a new hybrid sale format which is a cross between an auction and private sale.

Christie’s is launching a new sale-format for a major 20th century art auction in July.

ATG’s selection of hammer highlights this week includes a full proof set of coins issued by the Royal Mint for Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee in 1887 and a silver vase from c. 1920 marked for prize-winning designers Svend Hammershoi and Holger Kyster.

Christie’s has announced that its ‘Classic Week’ of sales in New York will now take place as a series of online auctions.

A government department has confirmed to ATG that auction houses in England will be able to open to the public in June and conduct home valuations, as long as social distancing and the latest government guidelines are met.

Lots Road Auctions, The Canterbury Auction Galleries and Bishop & Miller are among the latest auction houses to plan a return to the rostrum and hold live online only sales.

The latest appointments around the regional UK auction houses this month.

The government scheme to pay wages of workers during the coronavirus pandemic has been extended until October.

A 50-page document detailing the steps the government is taking to return some businesses in England to operation and ease some of the current lockdown was published on Monday May 11.

Organisers of La Biennale Paris have postponed the 32nd edition of the event until next year.

Recent timed online sales organised by regional auction houses and dealers to raise money for charity in the face of the coronavirus pandemic have raised more than £42,000 so far.

With estimates from £40-5000 here are four previews of upcoming items this week.