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A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including Fergus Gambon being promoted to head of Bonhams' British ceramics and glass department following the retirement of John Sandon.

The May 22 sale at Dreweatts of Donnington Priory titled Japanese, Islamic and Indian Works of Art included a collection of Iznik and Damascus tiles from the estate of the artist Sir Howard Hodgkin (1932-2017).

Characteristic etching is best-seller in appealing single-owner mix of works on paper.

A rare opportunity to own a watercolour by Prince Charles (b.1948) presented itself when items belonging to the former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and his wife Mary were put up for sale at Hansons (20% buyer’s premium).

A watercolour of a thoroughbred racehorse auction appeared at Chorley’s (20% buyer’s premium) of Prinknash Abbey Park, Gloucestershire, on May 21 – 123 years to the day since it had itself last sold at auction.

Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales at £800 or under, including Bernard Finegan Gribble maritime work.

Our weekly selection from salerooms and dealerships.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

While British studio potters were battling to break through in the 1930s, established factories, even Moorcroft, were struggling to survive the Great Depression.

As part of their first world tour, The Beatles played the Princess Theatre in Hong Kong twice in June 1964.

A book billed as the work that marked the birth of modern business will be the subject of a single-lot auction at Christie’s New York on June 12.

ATG’s calendar of book auctions taking place in the UK and Ireland from June 3-15, 2019.

Ceramics are a major focus of this report on sales from Germany. The selection of highlights and unusual pieces ranges from early 19th century products of the Vienna factory via Art Nouveau creations and 1920s Soviet-era porcelain to works by famed 20th century Studio potters.

ATG’s selection of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com from the period May 23-29, 2019. This includes both the highest prices over estimate and the top prices paid online.

Coming fresh to market from a corn merchant’s shop, seven early/mid- 20th century enamel signs extolling Spratt’s pet food for dogs, cats and canaries attracted UK collectors to Bishop & Miller’s (20% buyer’s premium) Stowmarket sale on May 17.

The hope at every house clearance came true for Reading auctioneer Chris Boreham when he unearthed this set of four Georgian silver rococo candlesticks at a local home.

An acrylic on paper of Timanfaya, the only active volcano on the Canary Island of Lanzarote, by British artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004), is one of the highlights of the exhibition A Distant Isle.

Headline stratospheric results should not put collectors off, as a London auction underlines.

Pamphlet in later royal binding offers thanksgiving for James I’s survival of Gunpowder Plot.

A pair of large c.1760 Chelsea ovoid vases made after a drawing by English architect and furniture designer William Kent (1685-1748), is on offer at Albert Amor this month.