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Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780-1854) was clockmaker to George III and also to The Prince Regent, later George IV.

An American library has announced the purchase of six “exceptional collections” including letters shedding light on the early British Atlantic slave trade that were originally sold at a UK auction.

TEFAF New York boasted an 11% rise in attendance from last year despite challenging times.

A sleepy Kentian table from a home in Connecticut was awoken by a sensational sum in late April.

The opening day of the spring edition of the Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair was a success for many, with well-heeled buyers snapping up furniture, art and more on Tuesday, May 6.

Standing 3ft (91cm) high, this miniature rosewood and ivory bureau cabinet illustrates the successful fusion of Indian decoration to English form achieved by artisans working in the port of Vizagapatam in the 18th century.

Stockholms Auktionsverk believes it has discovered a previously unknown oil by Spanish Baroque artist Jusepe de Ribera (1591-1652).

It took 16 years to compile the first great German florilegium, an edition of which can be seen – and purchased – at the Firsts London book fair running from May 15-18 at the Saatchi Gallery.

This Wedgwood creamware tea or punch pot commemorating the launch of a gun ship at Deptford in 1784 was among 29 lots from the collection of The Worshipful Company of Shipwrights sold by specialist Charles Miller.

Sad news last week as ceramics firm W Moorcroft Ltd announced that it had ceased trading as of April 30. It appointed Moore Recovery to assist with placing the company into voluntary liquidation.

An early leather-bound feather golf ball consigned for sale from a house move in Old Woking in Surrey comes for sale at John Nicholson’s in Haslemere on May 14.