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A selection of drawings will feature in Aguttes’ March 28 sale at Drouot of Old Masters.

For many years signet rings served a very practical as well as a decorative and symbolic function.

This 7½in (19cm) high carriage clock in a fanciful gothic revival taste is stamped to the base AF, probably for the renowned Parisian jeweller and goldsmith Alexis Falize (1811-98).

Myanmar (Burmese) sapphires, renowned for a deep blue colour, are highly prized for reasons of scarcity, quality and history

For its presentation at Drawing Now, the Galerie Lelong from Paris will include a special focus on the work of Christine Safa (b.1994).

Ader will hold three drawings sales at Drouot around the time of the Salon du Dessin.

Alex Robins of AFC Fairs is a busy woman. She kicks off her showground scene on Easter Friday and Saturday, April 7-8, with the first of the biannual antiques and collectors’ fairs which she has run at the Wadebridge Showground in north Cornwall for 15 years.

The French art market is to fight “devastating” proposals to increase import tax on art and antiques planned by a new EU law.

Discoveries by dealers will be among the highlights offered at this year’s TEFAF Maastricht, opening this week.

The Weekly Antiques Sale at Gorringe’s on February 27 included this fine Poole Pottery charger.

Since the days of Magna Carta, it was thought the best way to avoid a fraudulent measure was to have a verified ‘standard’ against which all others could be judged.

Nelson’s life and work has been exhaustively researched and evaluated since the day he died.

Three developments stand out in the latest British Art Market Federation Guidance issued

An early watercolour of Chepstow Castle by JMW Turner (1775-1851) that was previously recorded but its whereabouts unknown has emerged in Cambridge.

The anti-money laundering rules, applying the Fifth Money Laundering Directive (known as 5MLD) took effect on January 10, 2020. and apply to ‘Art Market Participants’ (AMPs).

Trade at London’s Camden Passage antiques market is being blighted by roadworks for a new traffic system.

A once neglected aspect of the silver market received a showpiece sale in February. ATG reports on the Stewart collection of Anglo-Indian silver from the Raj period.