Auctions

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of the late Hugo Morley-Fletcher’s collection of art and ceramics being consigned to Roseberys.

A monumental and important William De Morgan architectural tile panel comes for sale in Stourbridge next week with a guide of £50,000-60,000.

A depiction of a great bustard by the ornithological illustrator William Hayes captures the twilight years of a bird driven to extinction in Britain

An Indian silver inkstand, presented to the Duke of Buckingham in 1880 by a volunteer field artillery regiment in Madras known as ‘The Duke’s Own’, quadrupled its £1000-1500 estimate at Dreweatts.

By the time glass designer Geoffrey Baxter (1922-95) died his contribution to the Whitefriars story had already assumed cult status and a collecting hierarchy had developed.

Among the earliest examples of Australian gold rush jewellery are the simple signet rings sold to miners in the settlement of Ballarat in the 1850s as a memento of the boomtown days.

A pocket watch by a watchmaker who was murdered in a highway robbery in 1853 sold at triple its estimate at TW Gaze in Diss, Norfolk

An intimate work by Irish artist Sir John Lavery (1856-1941) has sold for £360,000 at Sworders.

An exceptional pair of Louis Philippe period Sèvres hard paste porcelain vases has been unearthed in upstate New York.

The personal collection of notes, research, transcripts and photographs belonging to former BBC sports commentator David Coleman (1926-2013) appeared at a recent sale held by RWB Auctions in Royal Wootton Bassett.

Sotheby’s is to offer a collection of 30 Fabergé animals from the Castle Howard estate on May 6 as part of its Fabergé, Gold Boxes & Vertu auction in Geneva.

With estimates from £150, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week