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The quarter-century-old auction record for Moorcroft pottery has been broken with the sale of a massive Flambé Landscape pattern vase for £32,000. Probably produced for exhibition in the late 1920s, the 15½in (38.5cm) high shouldered form vase is decorated with tubelined tall trees and hills and glazed in green and blue with a flambé sky.

Two years after a Wiltshire auction house set a record for Titanic memorabilia with ‘the watch recovered from the body of John Jacob Astor’ at £900,000, another timekeeper making precisely the same claim has sold in Chicago for $800,000 (£592,000).

The latest Design Since 1860 sale at Lyon & Turnbull in Edinburgh was topped by four Morris & Co tile panels depicting the Labours of the Months dated to c.1865.

A Winnie the Pooh museum was among the buyers of rediscovered drawings by EH Shepard.

A rediscovered naïve painting showing Marlborough College in the years before the school was founded has been sold by a dealer to the college itself.

A memento mori pendant depicted in a celebrated 17th century family portrait on the theme of grief, mortality, and religious faith has been discovered and is offered for sale at a London fair.

The first Australian sporting team to tour internationally included players Johnny Mullagh (traditional name Unaarrimin), Harry Bullocky (Bullchanach), Dick-a-Dick (Jungunjinanuke), Johnny Cuzens (Zellanach) and Twopenny (Murrumgunarriman).

As a dealer, collector and enthusiast of ethnographic art, Gordon Reece spent a lifetime travelling the globe in search of artefacts.

As vintage wristwatches continue to dominate the watch market, finding interesting examples at reasonable prices has become a challenge. However, opportunities are out there

Among the most intriguing naïve pictures sold recently was a simple and ostensibly unassuming painting of a ship offered at a recent Dominic Winter (22% buyer’s premium) auction.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including exhibition devoted to the Victorian art potter William De Morgan at auction house Kinghams.

On Thursday, April 23, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold trading price of: $4700.01 / €4010.68 / £3481.49

Railtons [auction house] received this heavy and rather grubby Victorian marble bust just as our end of March catalogue was going to press.

Dealer duo win praise for new shop hosting 25 traders across two floors in a former furniture store

The London watch and clock maker Brounker Watts (c.1670-1717), an apprentice to Joseph Knibb, became a member of the Clockmakers Company in 1697.

The identity of the buyer of an Olympic winner’s medal from the first Games in 1896 has been revealed by auction house Bruun Rasmussen.

This splendid image depicts Horace Brown, a former president of the Piscatorial Society.

Next month’s exhibition on Joseph Southall (1861-1944), a joint effort by dealers Harry Moore-Gwyn and Sarah Colegrave, was six years in the making, yet the key piece came to the duo at nearly the last moment.

Female artists and makers are well represented at this year’s Petworth Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair. Of particular note is Ann Lee Warner, about whom little is known, but whose name appears on a lacquer cabinet offered by Reindeer Antiques.

We regret to announce Richard (‘Ricardo’) Penman passed away on Monday, April 13, after a long struggle with pancreatic cancer.