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Maryland auction offers a fascinating collection of Chinese porcelain intended for foreign markets

Lot number four, estimated at €8000-10,000, achieved the most spectacular result at Van Ham’s (2 7% buyer ’s premium) sale of paintings on November 14 in Cologne.

A single-owner collection of Antiquities & Oddities offered without reserve by Shapiro Auctions 30/29/18.9% buyer’s premium) in Mamaroneck, New York included several fine South American objects made in the Spanish colonial era.

A large and historic view of Bilbao in Spain was among the lots bringing competition at Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood (26% buyer’s premium) of Exeter.

A pocket watch presented by Titanic survivors to a captain who helped save over 700 passengers has made a record for any piece of Titanic memorabilia, hammering down for £1.31m at Henry Aldridge & Son (22/20/15% buyer’s premium).

Dickinson Gallery has announced the rediscovery and unveiling of an unfinished portrait of Oliver Cromwell, painted by his favourite artist, Robert Walker, probably around 1649-55.

While the buying audience still loves its brand names and big stones, jewellery with a narrative is a strength of the market

Lesley Ayres organises the monthly 20-year-old 'Ilkley Antiques Fair' which she has run since 2019. The next is on Sunday, December 1, at the Clarke Foley Community Hub in the North Yorkshire town.

Booming regional auction house points to experience and contacts as key to source high calibre works

Oliver Wood is the photography books expert at Shapero Rare Books.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works on paper sales

Following on from the summer event, London dealer showvase has lots of varied exhibitions lined up

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including news of a temporary export bar on Roman mosaics

The Beatles Memorabilia Auction at Tracks (25% buyer’s premium) in Chorley, Lancashire included one of the most desirable of all commercial Fab Four items: the 1964 Beatles record player by NEMS Enterprises.

Four generations of the Bartlett family have farmed Hinton Farm near Yeovil in Somerset.

Former Masterpiece fair chairman was particularly enthusiastic about antiquities

John Wallis was one of the leading publishers of board games in the early 19th century. One of them, Science in Sport, or the Pleasures of Astronomy, was first issued in 1804 and revised in 1815.

The French-American sculptor Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002) started making jewellery in the early 1970s after she was introduced to the Italian goldsmith Giancarlo Montebello in Paris.