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Dealer and advisor Martyn Downer, a veteran of the temporary export bar process applied to culturally significant works of art or heritage items, says the system is no longer fit for purpose.

A civil war-era miniature by the Anglo-French painter David des Granges (1611-72) sold for £22,000 at Hawleys in Beverley, East Yorkshire, on September 26.

London saleroom Wimbledon Auctions has announced a series of expansion plans.

Christie’s is holding a mixed-owner ‘live’ Chinese works of art sale in London this autumn – its first for some years.

Sotheby’s will offer JMW Turner’s (1775-1851) Rome, from Mount Aventine in December, 12 years after the picture set a £27m auction record in the same London saleroom.

An early sales boom was under way at the autumn edition of The Decorative Fair in Battersea Park in the opening days of the event.

A previously unpublished painting, only recently discovered in an Austrian private collection, promises to be one of the high points at Dorotheum’s Vienna auction of Old Masters on October 21.

A remarkable collection of 18th and 19th century British pottery assembled by US interior designers Bennett and Judie Weinstock comes for sale at Bonhams this month.

Born Allan Garway Atkins, in Northern Ireland, Garry Atkins (1938-2026) – the name by which he became known and loved throughout the ceramics world – began his working life as an insurance broker, building collections of stamps and coins along the way.

As Paris Photo (November 12-15) prepares to welcome collectors from around the world, Christie’s is offering more than 350 photographs from the Roger Therond Collection across three sales taking place in Paris on November 13-14, and online from November 6-17.

Mark Rowles Fine Art is a gallery in Powys, Wales, run by Mark and his daughter Michelle Rowles-Lloyd.

Our selection of lots from 16 upcoming auctions

The two early pottery lots destined to tie for top-lot status in the September 19 sale at Roland NY (30% buyer’s premium) in Glen Cove, New York, came from the same consignor, and from the same setting in their home.

Previewed in this column in ATG No 2759, the Great Antiques Fair is a new high-end event that was held on September 26-27 at Larchfield, an historic estate in Lisburn, County Down.

Alex and Oli Khalil-Martin live in a 600-year-old home in Lavenham, Suffolk, known as The Crooked House.

The descendants of a Boer War soldier succeeded in buying a rare medal group at Kinghams (26% buyer’s premium) in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, returning the awards to family ownership for the first time in 100 years.

Yvonne Rosina was previously a corporate lawyer in the Netherlands. With ties to the UK and the Caribbean, she has recently become an antiques dealer and opened her gallery in Aruba.

A Victoria Cross that was awarded posthumously to a member of the Manchester Regiment who is buried in the same row as war poet Wilfred Owen is coming to auction in London.

Focus on one of the two London events that have been announced as October becomes a busy period

News that, within just days, the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest (RCEWA) has temporarily blocked the export of a Rembrandt valued at £71.7m and an Anglo-Saxon mount (which had already passed through the Portable Antiquities Scheme) priced at £1000 raises questions of the seemingly arbitrary and often baffling nature of the committee’s decisions.