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The stricken Moorcroft pottery business will have a member of the founder’s family involved with the firm for the first time in nearly 20 years.

A handsome pair of Regency period Egyptian Revival silver candlesticks with a Jane Austen connection sold well above hopes at Lacy Scott & Knight in Bury St Edmunds.

An 18th century carved oak chair has been stolen from a Buckinghamshire church.

A rare self-portrait by William Dobson (1611-46) has been jointly acquired by Tate Britain and the National Portrait Gallery in a £2.37m private treaty sale brokered by dealer Hazlitt.

Many works by the great British artist are now owned by institutions but smaller paintings and sketches are common sights at salerooms

Three of the youngest members of Stanley Gibbons Baldwin’s prove that a love of antiques and auction house work is alive and well in the next generation

We sample a range of exhibitions taking place this summer – from a show on Second World War maps in Edinburgh to a display of Lucian Freud’s etchings at Titanic Belfast, a dive into the Picture Post archives in Cardiff, and a Magna Carta exhibition in London exploring the lesser-known Charter of the Forest

The Bohemian glassmaker Leopold Blaschka’s fascination with marine life began in 1853, when the ship in which he was travelling to the US became becalmed off the Azores.

Fairs organiser run by the Burgoin family started with a single event but now operates at several venues

Alan Old of So Last Century fairs launched his first vintage and retro fair at Beckenham Place Mansion in south London 10 years ago.

It may be a new name in the summer calendar, but this inaugural initiative is building on a firm foundation of previous ‘collegial’ events encompassing an array of selling exhibitions

Changes are afoot in the art and book dealing hub Cecil Court this summer.

In its day, the Parisian porcelain manufacture founded by the Austrian born Jean Népomucène Hermann Nast in 1783 was regarded as a worthy competitor to Sèvres.

Artist survived a shipwreck but then spent a decade creating portraits and views of the local landscape

A wide range of dealer exhibitions are on offer to brighten up this summer even further. Here is a selection

London is host to two stand-out antiquities exhibitions.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including a group of rare coins discovered in a wall.

On Friday, June 20, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $3357.67 / €2911.73 / £2487.17

The third edition of Treasure House Fair carries on the long tradition of summer events in London, with a selection of highlights to savour

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