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In a market where the ownership history is vital, works bought directly from the artist are sought after

The great Georgian porcelain decorator and technician William Billingsley (1758-1828) was that recognisable type: artistic genius and downright rogue.

E&H Manners, the Kensington Church Street ceramics specialist of more than 30 years, tried something new this year: a summer exhibition.

London rare book dealership Peter Harrington has revealed that it placed the top bid on the first editions of William Blake’s 'Songs of Innocence' (1789) and 'Songs of Experience' (1794) at Christie’s Maurice Sendak auction last month.

My recent letter in ATG (No 2696) regarding the time-limit waiver of VAT exemption on the re-importation of antiques seems to have stirred up a minor hornet’s nest. My phone, while not being exactly hot, has been mildly warm on occasion.

Showground extravaganza run until recently by B2B continues to be a success under the new organiser

A Louis XIV Boulle bracket clock c.1712 features in Olde Time Antique Clocks’ open weekend this month.

Graham Turner’s antiques fairs have an enviable longevity in the Suffolk town of Long Melford.

Paxton House in Berwick-upon-Tweed has been reunited with an important Regency sofa it had lost for a century.

Early sales in the first hours of Treasure House Fair warmed up the third edition of the Chelsea event.

Italy has announced a cut in VAT for art and antiques from 22% to 5%, making it lower than any other EU state. It also aims to halve VAT on imports to 5%.

A Victorian silver centrepiece sculpted by Alfred Brown for Hunt & Roskell has returned to its ancestral home after more than 120 years.

A tiny Oxfam shop in Headington, Oxfordshire, was celebrating after a set of 12 books dropped off by an anonymous donor later sold at Bonhams for £13,000 (£16,640 with premium).

The incoming EU Regulation 2019/880 on the import of cultural goods, which became effective from June 28, continues to cause concern for the art and antiques market, with TEFAF the latest to warn of its impact.

A substantial collection of 18th and 19th century Cape silver, made by European silversmiths practising in South Africa, is coming for sale at Strauss & Co in Johannesberg.

A group of four bronze statues has been stolen from Iford Manor in Wiltshire. Thieves broke into the grounds and property of the house near Bradford-on-Avon during the Iford Manor Jazz Festival, some time between 10.45pm on the evening of Thursday, June 19, and 8am on the Friday.