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On a sweltering night in the capital, a record was set for a single-owner sale in London as the Lewis collection raised an extraordinary £296.3m total at Sotheby’s.

Duke’s Fine Jewellery, Watches and Silver auction in Dorchester on June 17-19 was topped at £170,000 by this George III hexagonal pendant centred by a carved Colombian emerald within a border of graduated cushion cut diamonds.

The Treasure House Fair returned for its fourth edition at the Royal Hospital Chelsea.

A remarkable George II giltwood and marble side table sold for £90,000 at Sworders on June 23.

Selected elements of the Frederick Parker Collection of Chairs have been sold at auction ahead of the educational resource’s imminent move to new site in the London Docklands area.

One of a group of seven 16th century tapestries that hung in Oxburgh Hall in Norfolk until they were sold at auction in 1924 has returned home after the National Trust bought it from an antiques dealer following TEFAF Maastricht last year.

Painted with a scene of two St Ives double-ended mackerel luggers heeling to an offshore breeze, this Alfred Wallis (1855-1942) has what Mimi Connell-Lay from Cornish saleroom Lay’s calls “an absolute dream of a provenance”.

As yet another British prime minister steps/is forced aside, a lot coming up at Lewes saleroom Gorringe’s on July 7 gives a reminder of an earlier momentous change in power.

The so-called Biscuit Tin Episode in the life of author Charles Dodgson left behind a great collectable: the W&R Jacob & Co lithographed tin, one of which was offered by Hartley’s on June 17.

New UK anti-money laundering rules coming into force are set to affect auction houses, dealerships, art advisers and other art market participants.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including a judge's ruling in a case over staff accessing customer data and contact details ahead of joining a rival firm

Our selection of lots from seven upcoming auctions

A TV casting director who launched a vintage and mid-century fair in March at the Grade I-listed St Stephen’s Church in Hampstead (with another in June) is moving to another ecclesiastical setting on Saturday, July 11, for the third event, also in north London.

Items from the collection of architect Christopher Smallwood (1937-2024) were offered for sale at Dreweatts on May 13.

A house record for Olympia Auctions’ (25% buyer’s premium) picture department was achieved in early June when a beach scene by LS Lowry (1887-1976) took an above-estimate £190,000.