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Dealer and advisor Martyn Downer, a veteran of the temporary export bar process applied to culturally significant works of art or heritage items, says the system is no longer fit for purpose.

A civil war-era miniature by the Anglo-French painter David des Granges (1611-72) sold for £22,000 at Hawleys in Beverley, East Yorkshire, on September 26.

London saleroom Wimbledon Auctions has announced a series of expansion plans.

A remarkable collection of 18th and 19th century British pottery assembled by US interior designers Bennett and Judie Weinstock comes for sale at Bonhams this month.

Born Allan Garway Atkins, in Northern Ireland, Garry Atkins (1938-2026) – the name by which he became known and loved throughout the ceramics world – began his working life as an insurance broker, building collections of stamps and coins along the way.

As Paris Photo (November 12-15) prepares to welcome collectors from around the world, Christie’s is offering more than 350 photographs from the Roger Therond Collection across three sales taking place in Paris on November 13-14, and online from November 6-17.

Our selection of lots from 16 upcoming auctions

The two early pottery lots destined to tie for top-lot status in the September 19 sale at Roland NY (30% buyer’s premium) in Glen Cove, New York, came from the same consignor, and from the same setting in their home.

The descendants of a Boer War soldier succeeded in buying a rare medal group at Kinghams (26% buyer’s premium) in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, returning the awards to family ownership for the first time in 100 years.

A Victoria Cross that was awarded posthumously to a member of the Manchester Regiment who is buried in the same row as war poet Wilfred Owen is coming to auction in London.

News that, within just days, the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest (RCEWA) has temporarily blocked the export of a Rembrandt valued at £71.7m and an Anglo-Saxon mount (which had already passed through the Portable Antiquities Scheme) priced at £1000 raises questions of the seemingly arbitrary and often baffling nature of the committee’s decisions.

Presumably planned purchases rather than on the hoof, three unusual equine relics of the Battle of Waterloo appeared in separate salerooms within the same month.

Rago, the Lambertville, New Jersey auction house, began handling pieces by Paul Evans (1931-87) in the 1990s, when the classic sculpture-front furnishings were selling for as little as $25,000.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including Thomson Roddick Callan expanding its footprint in the Scottish capital

Lots of Americans wanted to fight Nazi Germany during the Second World War. Those too young could put a coin in the Poison this Rat trade simulator.

Gladwell & Patterson marks its 280th anniversary with an exhibition at its new London premises in Burlington Arcade, Mayfair.

Backing information from the consignor supported a ‘masterpiece’ furniture item by Swedish designer

Towards the end of his reign, Henry VIII, the devout Catholic who had created the Church of England, was attempting to put the Protestantism he had unleashed back in its box.

Kingsclere dealership Jenna Burlingham Fine Art has sponsored a travelling loan show on Cornish art.