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It is with great sadness that I have to report the death of Martin Mortimer on October 1 following a challenging short illness. He passed away peacefully at home aged 94.

Estimated at £800-1200, this Regency giltwood and ebonised convex wall mirror sold at £12,500 at Toovey’s (24.5% buyer’s premium) on November 3.

This German brown leather and plated metal hip flask has the inscription 'Fur Kaiser John Zu Seinem Geburtstag 9. Okt 1960 Von Stu'.

Two sculptures of well-known 20th century British cultural figures drew attention at different regional sales recently.

A welding course was to have a lasting effect on the artistic development of the British sculptor Lynn Chadwick (1914-2003).

Expecting to collect a bureau advertised on marketplace Gumtree, a dealer spotted two 18th century Venetian scenes leaning against a wall in the home he visited.

BRAFA Art Fair in Brussels has announced its dates for the 2023 edition.

This terracotta sculpture from 1941 by Ossip Zadkine (1890-1967) featured in the Fine Art sale held by Shapiro (25% buyer’s premium) on October 15.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

Special report on how art and antiques shipping and packing firms are meeting the challenges of festive deadlines, postal strikes, going green and Brexit.

Shipping is one of the largest annual costs for art and antique dealers so it’s no surprise that many look for the most cost-effective method of shipping to get orders to excited clients.

London event organiser says many visitors post-pandemic restrictions are new to antiques

First part of a collection which covered the walls and cellar of two whole flats is offered at auction

A British subject born in Rio de Janeiro, Reginald Fairfax Wells (1877-1951) studied sculpture at the South Kensington School of Art in the 1890s and then studio pottery at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts.

Rembrandt Bugatti (1884-1916) is well known as an animalier sculptor creating studies of exotic animals that he observed in the zoos at Antwerp and the Jardin des Plantes in Paris.

Oxfordshire dealership Witney Antiques’ latest exhibition features early example of band samplers.

The Glaisdale Library was the collection of Martin Henry Burtt, a well-known figure in the Yorkshire and indeed national agricultural worlds.

How is the art and antiques trade to respond to the gloomy predictions discussed at the recent Cop27 in Egypt November 6-18)?

Single-owner group of mostly silver egg cups spanning two centuries opens a French auction

On Friday, November 18, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $1762.56 / €1688.81 / £1481.15