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In our weekend series, Antiques Trade Gazette brings you a selection of quotes from dealers, auctioneers, collectors and others. This week it's Chippendale, Chester and cheeky cartoons.

The work of British society portrait painter Sir Oswald Birley (1880-1952) is being celebrated in a loan exhibition at London dealer Philip Mould.

A Chinese dish, once valued on the BBC’s ‘Antiques Roadshow’, has sold at Hansons Auctioneers for £230,000.

An antiques dealer and Kent Police are calling on the trade to be aware of stolen silver items from a shop in Tenterden in Kent.

Following the news of Hugh Hefner’s death yesterday, many tributes have revived the classic joke about “reading Playboy for the articles”.

Works by the highly-regarded Danish designer Finn Juhl (1912-1989) secured the three top slots in Bruun Rasmussen’s Nordic Masters design sale held in Copenhagen this week.

Dealer Philip Mould was among the bidders at Sotheby’s sale of the Yeats collection this week.

Auction house Sotheby’s has awarded two US museums a prize of $125,000 each as part of its new exhibition competition.

An Oxfordshire antiques dealer will offer a rare and unusual piece of political satire at the upcoming Chester Antiques Show (October 12-15).

A group of young trade members gathered on Kensington Church Street yesterday for an evening of networking.

The desk used by poet WB Yeats has sold for £150,000 (£187,000 inc premium) this morning, five times its top estimate of £30,000.

Cameras, scientific and medical instruments specialist Flints Auctioneers held its first auction this month and a 19th century French telescope was among the highlights of the sale.

Old master dealership Colnaghi is to open a gallery in New York and will expand into ancient art with the hiring of a new director from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.