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The most popular stories on this website over the last week included news of a Yongzheng marked ‘peach bloom’ saucer dish attracting 100 bids.

Antiques dealers, market traders, local businesses, residents and visitors are invited to give feedback on more than 50 proposals to improve visiting and trading at markets in the borough of Kensington and Chelsea including Portobello Road market.

ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes a Great Western Railway wall clock from the 1880s that made over 17-times estimate in Hertfordshire.

Two medals awarded to the late artist Charles Tunnicliffe (1901-79) were stolen when The Silk Museum in Macclesfield was burgled earlier this week.

A high price for a Russian picture came at Rushbrooks Auctioneers when a work by Ivan Fedorovich Choultsé (1877-1932) drew eight different bidders.

Christie’s is to step up its operations in the Far East with its first permanent saleroom and gallery space in Hong Kong.

With estimates from £80-20,000, here is our pick of upcoming items this week.

The most popular stories on this website over the last week included news of a Yongzheng vase demolishing its estimate at an Irish auction.

ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes a rare jizai okimono of a hawk that sold above estimate in Salisbury.

Welsh auction house Rogers Jones has broken its own record for a work by Sir Kyffin Williams (1918-2006).

An Art Deco cultured pearl and diamond bracelet owned by Princess Margaret and worn for her 19th birthday photograph taken by Cecil Beaton in 1949 is coming up at auction.

This week’s Movers & Shakers includes a group of new hires at online dealer platform 2Covet.

The Manhattan district attorney’s office is investigating a multi-million-pound Asian antiquities ‘trafficking ring’ and has arrested a British antiques restorer as part of the case.