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Bottles with fatal content had to be specially designed and coloured to avoid a nasty accident

This 12in (30.5cm) diameter Dutch delft bowl was a high-flyer at Rob Michiels (30% buyer’s premium inc VAT) in Bruges.

Testing the market for still-lifes by Bloomsbury school favourite Duncan Grant (1885-1978), a painting by the artist emerged fresh from a notable source in Somerset.

Latest edition of the tribal art event in Paris now includes a special showcase for six new faces

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including an appeal from Hever Castle for information on three missing miniature portraits.

The most eagerly contested lot in a recent sale at Potteries Auctions (25% buyer’s premium) was a Doulton stoneware Isobath inkwell.

Wedgwood has long been such a popular collecting strand in the US that it is no surprise to see quantities reappear on the market at auction, either as mixed-owner consignments or single-owner collections

Coastal scene formerly owned by collector in the diamond mining industry attracts considerable interest

This faded red-brown velvet cap worn by Alfred St George Hamersley (1848-1929) is believed to be the earliest rugby international cap to come to auction.

The boar’s head tureen with matching stand is considered the rarest of all the game tureens made by the Minton factory in its colourful majolica range.

Estimated at £300-500, a group of five hand-coloured prints of early 19th century Canada sold for £8500 at Gorringe’s (25% buyer’s premium) in Lewes.

Pangolin anniversary exhibition is one of several highlighting British art this autumn in London

Dated and inscribed and royal portrait subjects are the most desirable classes of early delftware

The Parcours de la Céramique et des Arts du Feu is an annual gallery-based event in Paris focusing on a broad range of ceramics and glass, both antique and modern, from Europe and Asia

By their nature, rare bottles can emerge for sale in some unlikely places

An English covered goblet made in 1820 to commemorate the first voyage of the ship Woodford is on offer at Bishop & Miller in Glandford, Norfolk

A curious pearlware pottery hybrid animal with the head of a sheep and body of a winged fish proved a popular entry at Toovey’s (24.5% buyer’s premium).

Latest slice of a ‘magnificent library’ that covered the development of book illustrations

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions

Forty years ago, the market for crested china was booming – the subject of specialist sales, annual price guides and an international collecting base