Auction Reports

Porcelain from short-lived Staffordshire firm comes from collector and dealer who revived the market

In Chinese symbolism, three goats shown together are representative of the New Year, bringing a change of fortune (sanyang kaitai).

A 43-lot private collection of Pilkington’s ceramics from Manchester opened Tennants’ (24/22% buyer’s premium) sale of 20th century design held in Leyburn on October 7.

Like many English joiners of the period, not a great deal is known about the private life of Gerrit Jensen.

Yabu Meizan (1853-1934) is considered the ‘prince’ of the so-called Satsuma medium.

This 18th century Korean eight-panel screen depicts a subject borrowed from Ming prototypes: a banquet honouring the famed Tang dynasty general Guo Ziyi.

A Chinese ‘dragon’ box fashioned in the prized Asian wood zitan sold for £110,000 at Sworders (25% buyer’s premium) on November 3.

Lyon & Turnbull’s (26/25/20% buyer's premium) Lalique sale in London included six of the rare pieces made using the cire perdue technique.

Jade censer modified by the architect-designer for his own enjoyment returns to auction in Edinburgh

Suffolk sale includes further selection from Chapman collection – but sculpture brings big surprise

Figure dating from 1792 demonstrates the advantages of the influential artificial stone used

Hugely decorative, impeccably provenanced and selling at an impressive sum, a pair of moulded relief panels were another of autumn’s Coade stone stars

Outstanding among a number of famous names at Ewbank’s (25% buyer’s premium) quarterly Jewellery and Watch sale was that of Cartier.

Focus on three days of dispersing the collection of renowned interior designer and antiques dealer

This Italian polychrome lava stone and pietra dure panel is probably by the Sicilian mosaicist Giovanni Battista Cali.

This colonial-era Indian silver horse racing trophy is marked for Peter Orr and Sons of Madras.

Kinghams (25% buyer’s premium) had held its inaugural Silver & Objects of Vertu sale on September 8.

This kitschy Beatles table lamp discovered in a house clearance sold for an impressive £950 (estimate £100-150) on September 14.

Futurist and Cubist feline design figures higly in an extensive single-owner collection of ceramics

Wassailing ceremonies on important feast days were a legacy of Anglo-Saxon culture.