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A number of Paris salerooms will be holding dedicated auctions of Asian Arts in June.

This large, 3ft (92cm), high imperial gilt bronze figure of Varjrabhairava features in the Asian art sale at Nagel in Stuttgart on June 23-25.

With a lack of fairs during the pandemic and fewer scheduled in the near future, picture dealer Jeremy Green has taken the plunge and returned to running a physical gallery after 15 years of running his dealership from home and standing at fairs.

Bonhams conducts a general sale of Asian art in Knightsbridge on May 10.

A highlight of the Asian Art sale at Tajan will be this still-life of a pot of primroses, apples and porcelain by Chinese artist Pan Yu Liang (1895-1977).

Fifteen furniture lots make five-figure sums as Dreweatts bidders show encouraging confidence

Edward Seago was a favourite of the establishment, royals in particular, but has a wider appeal such as his views of Hong Kong

A selection of 14 upcoming lots from auctions taking place around the UK.

The May 11-14 auction at Adam Partridge will feature the last 40 lots of Meiji period Satsuma from a noted Worcestershire collection.

Schedules for all sorts of auction series have been shaken up by pandemic restrictions, and the Asian art sales reflect this – but plenty is still on offer at the upcoming series

Morphets (20% buyer’s premium) of Harrogate sold a Mouseman bureau for a tub-thumping £36,000 on April 15.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including Phillips appointing Stephen Brooks as chief executive officer.

Andrew Cumming was among the first successful antiquarian book dealers to step into the shoes of the post-war greats such as Charles Traylen and Frank Hammond.

Sold for $150,000 (£109,490), some 10 times the low estimate, was a lot comprising 11 Xeroxed pages that constitute a pre-publication draft of Martin Luther King’s ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ of 1963.

Guest and Gray, trading from a gallery in central London at 58 Davies Street, decided to launch a new website during lockdown.

On May 18 Paris auction firm Tessier Sarrou is selling the first part of a collection of Japanese swords.

ATG’s pick of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com, including both the highest prices over estimate and the top prices paid online.

A Mitchells (22% buyer’s premium) sale included selected contents from Greystoke Castle near Penrith – home to the Howard family for over 500 years.

Our weekly listing of UK and Irish book auctions.

A portrait argued to be of author Emily Brontë is coming to auction this month.