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The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has returned an ancient bronze funerary couch to Turkey after concluding that it had been illicitly excavated in the early 1980s.

The first part of the auction of the extraordinary coin collection of Lars Emil Bruun (1852-1923) raised a total of €14.8m (£12.5m) including premium last week.

A new auction record has been set for Peranakan or Straits Settlement porcelain in Singapore.

London firm Charles Ede is expanding its repertoire and has brought in James Richards to launch its new approach which includes a greater focus on fine art at this year's 'Frieze Masters'.

Bonhams is set to relocate its New York headquarters from 580 Madison Avenue to the historic Steinway Hall at 111 West 57th Street.

What promises to be a market-defining sale for two well-known Modern British artists will be held in Essex this autumn.

Frederic Leighton’s 'Bay of Cádiz, Moonlight' will go on public display for the first time in 120 years at the artist’s former home after being bought at auction this summer.

With only a few weeks to go before the event, Classic Antique Fairs has postponed its September outing.

A previously unpublished oil sketch by John Constable provoked fierce bidding at Woolley & Wallis in Salisbury

Book specialist Jim Spencer has left Hansons and is launching his own saleroom offering monthly timed online auctions in Lichfield, Staffordshire.

A copy of the very first issue of The Beano – and the only one to retain its original ‘free gift’ - has sold at auction for £26,000.

It isn’t often these days that a large and connoisseurial collection of British watercolours comes to the market.