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A new high for a piece of Chantilly porcelain and two pre-emptions for paintings featured in a recent sale held by Daguerre (30% buyer’s premium) at Drouot in Paris.

Two works formerly owned by American actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr (1909-2000) drew dramatic competition at a dedicated sale of his collection.

A characteristically elaborately pierced and carved oak hall chair by the US furniture maker and designer Charles Rohlfs (1853-1936) proved to be the toast of the most recent Cottone (20% buyer’s premium) auction.

Art dealer Ivor Braka has spoken out over the legal action taken against him by The Artists’ Collecting Society (ACS) and the Design and Artists Copyright Society (DACS).

Andy Warhol’s (1928-87) Shot Sage Blue Marilyn will lead Christie’s New York sales in May. Poised to be the most expensive 20th century artwork to ever sell at auction, it is estimated to take around $200m.

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.

A work by the prolific Helen Bradley (1900-79) drew interest at the latest Northern Art sale held by Wilson55 (22% buyer’s premium) in Nantwich, Cheshire.

The Edison Class M cylinder phonograph was initially intended for business dictation but in time entertainment became its main role.

The London firm Samuel Jackson seems to have specialised in mounting other materials in silver to produce wine-coolers.

The Jewellery, Watches and Objects of Vertu sale at Dix Noonan Webb (25% buyer’s premium) in London on March 15 included more fine silver and enamel vesta cases by Sampson Mordan & Co to add to those sold by the firm in September 2021.

Group of 18 lots sets a new level of demand and prices as recent trends drive strong interest

This clock sold at Veilinghuis de Jager (35% buyer’s premium) in Goes, Zeeland, Netherlands, brings together two important names in English lantern clocks.

The last time this painting by David Teniers the younger (before 1610-90), depicting an alchemist in his workshop, was mentioned in a publication was back in 1877 and it comes to the market after having been in a Swiss family collection for over 200 years.

I very much enjoyed Roland Arkell’s excellent article on Ercol furniture (ATG No 2531).

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.

Bonhams’ run of acquiring other auction businesses shows no signs of slowing down.

Galloway Antiques Fairs is back in North Yorkshire this spring for its Duncombe Park event.

With more than 16,000 works on display, 'Art Treasures of Great Britain', held in a temporary iron-and-glass structure built in the Old Trafford area of Manchester in 1857, remains the largest art exhibition to be held in the UK.

Silver was the major strength of a recent two-day sale at Dreweatts (25% buyers’ premium). All bar one of the 549 lots got away to a hammer total tipping the £1m mark.

Stuart Murray is from Retrovintage, specialist in British and Scandinavian design-led furniture of the mid 20th-century, from the 1950s-70s, with a “particular love for pieces by the preeminent Danish designers of this period”.