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The last Jean-Jacques Rousseau herbarium in private hands came for sale at Ader in Paris on June 17.

The emergence of an English School c.1803 portrait miniature of Robert Emmet at Gorringe’s in Lewes was an exciting development given the scarcity of contemporaneous portraiture featuring Emmet; an Irish Republican and patriot, orator and rebel leader.

It is safe to say that nowadays the image of a smoking dog would find little favour with animal rights activists or for that matter with the current (for now) UK Prime Minister.

A monumental painting of a fish market soared to unexpected heights at the May 16 auction at Lempertz (26% buyer’s premium) in Cologne.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including Elvis Presley's blue suede shoes coming to auction

You can find stalls selling postcards at many fairs and markets, as well as a range of dedicated fairs.

On May 28 in Bruges, Carlo Bonte (28% buyer’s premium) offered The Hermit, Brother Luce, an oil study attributed to the French late Baroque painter Pierre Hubert Subleyras (1699-1749).

June 2, 1878, began as a normal day in the varied life of the German artist Adolph von Menzel.

This recently discovered example of the iconic Bauhaus tea-infuser, designed by Marianne Brandt in 1924, on offer at Lempertz on May 15 for €200,000, was knocked down to the Hamburg Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe (Museum for Art and Industry) for €260,000 (£222,220).

High up in the Pennines, above the village of Cowling, near Skipton in North Yorkshire, lies World Rough Stones House.

The trade in most antique scrimshaw and narwhal tusks will effectively be banned in the UK in just over two months

Art in Germany might be about to get a bit cheaper with the German government confirming it will cut the VAT on art sales from 19% to 7% in line with its import VAT.

Anthony Browne, executive chairman of the British Art Market Federation (BAMF) since its founding in 1996, is to stand down at the end of the month. While he will remain with the association as president, his successor will be the art lawyer Martin Wilson.

Institution based in Aberystwyth purchases five post-war works at regular dedicated Welsh auction