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The global art market contracted by 12% in 2024, achieving an estimated $57.5bn in total sales, according the latest edition of The Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report. It found that this decline reflects “ongoing geopolitical tensions, economic pressures, and shifting buyer behaviours”.

Archibald Knox (1864-1933) is known today as the genius behind the Cymric and Tudric ranges sold by Liberty & Co in the early 20th century.

After nearly 50 years of dealing in antiques from their shop in Church Street, Stow-on-the-Wold, Jack and Chrissie Baggott, who trade as Baggott Church Street Limited, are moving premises.

A striking picture by one of the most prominent but then forgotten British female artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries appeared at a Cheshire auction.

The pages of ATG have included many antiques stalls over the years but not many that measure just over 2ft long.

Welsh showground fair run since its launch 25 years ago by family business Continuity is changing hands

Art market businesses in the UK will shortly become subject to reporting requirements for financial sanctions.

String of portraits offered by south London auction house included sketch of the 12-year-old musical prodigy

Christie’s private sales department is holding a selling exhibition titled Siena and the Renaissance.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including an archive of scientific papers relating to Alan Turing being acquired by King’s College, Cambridge

First event at this time of year generates encouraging feedback and a healthy string of sale successes

Ian McKay (November 22, 1945-February 19, 2025) was born on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, to Scottish father David McKay and English mother Alice Harland, who met while serving in the RAF during the Second World War. He went to school in Kent.

If Knox is best known today for his work with Liberty & Co, in his own time on the Isle of Man he was better recognised as an art teacher and for his study of the local Celtic crosses and standing stones.

Estimated at £500-800, this large Vauxhall salt-glazed stoneware tavern mug sold for £3400 at Moore Allen & Innocent (21% buyer’s premium) in Cirencester, Gloucestershire.

Trunks for books which could be placed on a table, showcasing the volumes inside, are among Louis Vuitton’s most popular and collectable early models.

On Friday, April 10, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $3216.87 / €2823.97 /£2455.63

The few surviving pieces of furniture designed by Archibald Knox were mainly produced at the Sunnyside Workshops in Douglas, founded by Knox with his friend and patron Wilson James Ashburner in 1899.

Ken Besford of Durham Promotions NE, organiser of the Great North Decorative Antique Fair, is heading down the straight for the spring edition (Saturday and Sunday, April 26-27) of the triannual event he launched last year at Newcastle Racecourse.

Collection amassed by Christie’s veteran Hugo Morley-Fletcher includes ‘special group’ of porcelain