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Modern British trailblazer’s works inspired by a Swiss glacier form centrepiece of event exhibition

Five works by one of the greatest exponents of the intricate art of cloisonné enamel were included in Alderfer Auction’s (23% buyer’s premium) Collectors sale staged on July 24-25.

Tyrolean view by the renowned 19th century Norwegian landscape painter emerges in Essex saleroom

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

A remarkable late Victorian lecture programme on early polar exploration by the Norwegian scientist Dr Fridtjof Nansen has been sold at Chaucer Auctions (18% buyer’s premium) in Folkestone.

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.

Dealer association Salvo promoted its revised Pocket Guide at a ‘Secondhand September’ drinks party on September 5.

A mindful quote about glass from the great American writer Tennessee Williams comes in his one-act drama The Glass Menagerie which premiered on stage in Chicago in 1944: “When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.”

Dozen books including literary trailblazers come to auction from collection of actor and historian Terry Jones

Revere Auctions’ (25% buyer’s premium) sale in St Paul, Minnesota, titled Eternal Beauty: Splendors in Asian Art was dominated by a group of Chinese jades that came by descent from the family of Jerry O’Brien (1902-51).

The largest private collection of Louis Vuitton trunks ever to come to auction was sold by Christie’s Paris (26% buyer’s premium) earlier this year.

Painted wood panels from a partial Louis XVI boiserie-panelled bedroom were among the 250 lots at the Design for the Home and Garden auction at Andrew Jones (25/18/12% buyer’s premium) in Los Angeles on July 17.

As longstanding dealers retire and iconic outlets become historic memories, it is cheering to note exciting new developments and the enthusiasm of young entrepreneurs.

Blessed with a classical education, a gift for drawing and his father’s fortune, the English militiaman and antiquary Francis Grose (1731-91) is best known for his Views of Antiquities in England and Wales, published in several volumes between 1772-76.

The second session of the three-day sale at Thomaston Place Auction Galleries on August 23-25 was dominated by the seven-figure performance of a portrait in the manner of Rembrandt Van Rijn (1606-69).