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Emma Rutherford, the portrait miniature specialist formerly of Philip Mould who went solo earlier this year, is holding her second pop-up exhibition this week.

This gothic revival gold and enamel 'artist's jewel' made by the Birmingham metalworkers Hardman and Co is very similar to one given by architect Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-52) to his third wife Jane Knill.

Atmospheric views of London were the stock-in-trade of George Hyde Pownall (1866-1932).

For Helen Sunderland-Cohen collecting is a family business. The Sunderland Collection was launched by her father, and several years ago she came on board.

This 18th century Korean eight-panel screen depicts a subject borrowed from Ming prototypes: a banquet honouring the famed Tang dynasty general Guo Ziyi.

To help raise funds for a flood appeal at the West Midlands Showground in Shrewsbury, local fair organisers Emma and Oli Jones, aka JOS Events held a special ‘yard’ sale there earlier this month.

A Chinese ‘dragon’ box fashioned in the prized Asian wood zitan sold for £110,000 at Sworders (25% buyer’s premium) on November 3.

The artist Samuel Fulton (1855-1941) painted portraits of people and horses but by far his favourite subject was dogs.

Dealers hail return to Midlands venue a year after closure of popular Antiques for Everyone events

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

Lyon & Turnbull’s (26/25/20% buyer's premium) Lalique sale in London included six of the rare pieces made using the cire perdue technique.

A near pair of Rhodian bed curtains were among the highlight sales at Oliver Forge & Brendan Lynch’s recent exhibition 'Four Rivers from Eden: Works of Art and Paintings from the Islamic & Indian World'.

On November 1, Rago and Toomey & Co in Lambertville, New Jersey sold property from the “duke and duchess of the North American antiques world”, Ralph and Terry Kovel. In the US, the Kovels are renowned as authors and experts who published over 100 books on collecting.

I am writing to share my recent experience attempting to bid in an auction. I completed the online registration and received an email from the auctioneer requesting additional verification (ID & utility bill), fair enough, and also a deposit of several thousand pounds.

The jury is still out, in respect of the sexuality, not to say the erotic urges, of the aesthetically inclined Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll), who – arguably, quite innocently – took numerous photographs of very young ladies, sometimes in the nude (the girls, that is).

Spanning two sessions at Leitz Photographica in Vienna on November 24-25 are consignments from the personal collection of the late Yul Brynner (1920-1985) via his daughter Victoria.

Bonhams’ London Jewels sale on September 21 was topped by this Chaumet diamond necklace.

Stephen Ward (1912-63) will no doubt always be remembered as the man who introduced the model Christine Keeler to the politician John Profumo.

Jade censer modified by the architect-designer for his own enjoyment returns to auction in Edinburgh

Oliver Brooke-Walder deals in art from the 16th century to the present in London.