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Our selection of lots from five sales taking place in Germany this season

The latest Chester Decorative, Antiques & Art Fair will be the seventh for Cooper Fairs since the event was taken over from Penman Fairs in 2019.

An early clockwork model wheeled into a Buckinghamshire saleroom to get bidders into gear for an estimate-busting result

The Tribal Art Fair (TAF) is returning to De Duif in Amsterdam from October 24-27. Twenty ethnographic dealers will be exhibiting at the 22nd edition of the event. It offers a unique opportunity for collectors and enthusiasts to experience the rich and varied range of objects from around the globe in a 19th century church.

The gold fix in the UK rose above £2000 for the first time last week, continuing the strong increases recorded since the summer with prices rising by 9% over the last three months alone.

Stuart Lochhead Sculpture will open its new gallery on Old Bond Street, coinciding with London Art Week in December.

A rare colourway of the Ravilious for Wedgwood coronation mug took a bid of £13,500 at Gildings - a record price for Eric Ravilious ceramics.

A collection of watercolours amassed by Iolo Williams (1890- 1962) which had been kept under a bed for over half a century raised a total of £89,150 at Olympia Auctions on October 2.

Its survival a mystery for years, a rare 1950s Meccano store display figure has surfaced in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

A cabinet showing 17th century ‘globalisation’ in action made over 90 times its top estimate at a US sale.

Four Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88) family portraits acquired under the Acceptance in Lieu scheme have gone go on public display for the first time.

Any gold ‘wandering hour’ watch made prior to the introduction of the balance spring is a rarity.

Our selection of lots from eight upcoming auctions

Among the hundreds of new products launched at the Exposition Universelle in 1900 was the so-called eggshell porcelain, produced by the Rozenburg Royal Delftware Factory in the Hague.

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

Gordon Mitchell Forsyth (1879-1952) is best known as a ceramicist - specifically for his work as art director at the Pilkington’s Lancastrian factory from 1903-14 and his subsequent teaching career as superintendent of art instruction in Stoke-on-Trent.