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A hammer price of £300,000 sounds like a pretty hefty sum for any print sold in the UK regions. But when it comes to Katsushika Hokusai’s (1760-1849) legendary Great Wave, it is actually a relatively middling amount overall.

Coinex, the most important event on the British calendar for many serious coin collectors, opens at the Biltmore Hotel in Mayfair’s Grosvenor Square on September 26-27

From October 28-31 the Worshipful Company of Turners is hosting Wizardry in Wood 2025 – its quadrennial celebration of woodturning and wood art – at Plaisterers’ Hall in London.

That Willow became the most popular and persistent of the many transfer-printed landscape patterns was in part due to a stroke of 19th century marketing genius.

A previously unknown depiction of Christ on the cross believed to have been painted by Peter Paul Rubens (1577- 1640) has emerged at French auction house Osenat.

The Decorative Fair in Battersea Park is celebrating 40 years in business and the autumn edition on September 30 to October 5, is expected to attract a star-studded crowd as usual.

Noonans’ sale of Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria in London on September 10 was led by an exceptional 18th century gold and enamel jewel.

Part of an extensive collection of British and continental silver and glass, recently bequeathed to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford by a couple who lived in the Loire Valley, will be sold at auction in France.

Two key paintings by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-92) have been acquired by the National Trust from the Rothschild collection.

The national flag of India on offer at west London saleroom Lots Road in a Two Day Fine Interiors Auction was by the appearance alone seemingly nothing special.

The long journey through private collections, auctions and dealerships taken by a William Burges (1827-81) jade bowl has ended at a museum and art gallery in Bedford, it has emerged.

Wartski’s Katherine Purcell stages a museum-quality loan exhibition devoted to the history and the magnificence of a classic jewellery form

In Fairs, Markets, Shops & Centres, ATG No 2709, we ran a story about the South of England Postcard Fair which included mention of a postcard showing a WR Hayes.

Having gone from Newark International Antiques Fair to the West End’s Cecil Court, art and antiques dealer Adrian Pett is now expanding his business into a 1400 sq ft two-floor gallery.

The kumete whakairo (presentation bowl) shown here is one of three large and historically significant figure-supported bowls carved between 1865-85 by master carver Patoromu Tamatea.

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