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Norwich’s Sainsbury Centre art gallery has put a call out to the art and antiques sector for information and objects to help develop a new show.

The antiques trade is being asked to look out for a group of props stolen from the team behind Netflix’s 'The Crown' that were taken from a lorry.

Dealer and BBC Antiques Roadshow veteran Ian Harris is auctioning the majority of his stock as the company N Bloom & Son closes after more than a century.

A rare Renaissance roundel has been bought by the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 20 years after its first attempt.

Sometimes it pays to look a little further afield.

One of the earliest items of football memorabilia to appear at auction emerged at Bonhams in Knightsbridge: an England international goalkeeper shirt from 1879.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.

On Friday, February 25, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $1912.15 / €1707.91 / £1429.33

Chinese export bowls such as this one, decorated in the mandarin palette with famille rose foxhunting scenes, were popular both with the British and American markets in the last quarter of the 18th century.

At last October’s Bloomsbury Book Fair organiser Etc Fairs ran a concurrent photography event. It was such a success that it is being repeated as part of the 40-dealer book fair on Sunday, March 13, at the Holiday Inn in Bloomsbury.

Re: Michael Leigh Mallory’s metal detecting find of the Henry III gold penny sold by Spink (ATG No 2528).

This blue and white ewer with a Qianlong mark offered at Cheffins (24.5% buyer’s premium) in Cambridge as part of an Interiors sale is of a type modelled on a Zhou bronze ritual wine vessel or 'he'.

Qing period embroidered satin throne-back cushion covers can be seen still in situ in a number of the buildings in the Forbidden City including the Hall of Supreme Principle and the Palace of Eternal Spring. Others are held by institutions and collectors throughout the world.

Early works by Harold Knight (1874-1961) are not seen very often at auction but a group of six appeared at Mellors & Kirk of Nottingham at the end of last year.

Apelles Fine Art Services, a firm specialising in end-to-end practical management and maintenance of artwork, has been founded by James Birtwistle in response to what he sees is a lack of practical hands-on familiarity with paintings and drawings among buyers.

A collection of Chinese snuff bottles offered in two sessions stands out among an intriguing selection of Asia Week New York auctions and dealer shows.

During the Victorian era the Rev Henry Moule (1801-80) of Fordington in Dorset was doubtless considered something of a zealot.

A look at exhibitions staged to coincide with the international day of celebration

Hear hear to Mr Michael Baggott, hopefully trying to save works of art in ivory objects (Letters, ATG No 2530).

Works also sold in Penzance but not for six figures help to understand this market