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Firm local to The Traitors’ castle HQ says extra tourists help drive sales

Four saucers in the rare Copeland Spode R4332 pattern associated with RMS Titanic prompted fierce bidding at two regional salerooms in the space of a fortnight.

The multi-talented Belgian designer and architect Henry van de Velde spent many of his most productive years in the east German city of Weimar, where he lived and worked from 1899-1917.

Although he was rejected by the Berlin art academy, Eduard Hildebrandt, who was born in Danzig in 1818, went on to become one of the most celebrated landscape painters of his time. He was without doubt one of the most widely travelled.

The minimum lot values beloved of auctioneers’ accountants have come more and more into play just at a time when areas of the ceramics market have softened.

Lowestoft Porcelain Auctions, founded by Russell Sprake in 1984 and continued since his death by his wife Zoe, is holding a single-factory sale on October 21.

A family collection of faience ceramics attracted worldwide interest at auction in Zurich

While an unusual 17th century picture titled The Hares’ Revenge was the star of Woolley & Wallis’ (27/26% buyer’s premium) latest Old Masters, British & European Paintings sale when it made £50,000 (see ATG No 2761), a couple of scenic views of Greece also drew competition.

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

Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works on paper sales

Four centuries of art will be shuffled out of chronological order in Echoes Across Time, an exhibition at Simon C Dickinson in Jermyn Street, presented by Kocerova Fine Art.

Two bones from the foot of a dodo, the huge flightless bird that went extinct in the Dutch colony of Mauritius c.1690, were offered in Sworders’ (25% buyer’s premium) most recent Out of the Ordinary sale.