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Auctions with half an eye on the gift-giving season proliferate throughout late November and early December.

The sale of Chinese and other Asian Works of Art at Semley Auctioneers in Shaftesbury, Dorset, included the largest known group of works by the artist Mrs H Clark.

Important Irish mahogany furniture returned to market on November 11 when Brunk Auctions in North Carolina sold the so-called Mississippi Rococo collection of Jerold D Krouse.

On November 25, Gloucestershire auction house Chorley’s is selling the personal collection of Ray Leigh (1928-2025), one of the more significant figures in post-war British design.

A group of around 30 Old Masters from the collection of the late dealer Robert Compton Jones (1932-2020) is being offered at Leonard Joel auction house in Sydney on December 8.

Art and antiquities dealers Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch have sold two glass items to a US museum.

A painting by Dutch artist Gerrit Dou (1613-75) that has been in a British private collection since the 19th century will lead Christie’s Old Master evening sale in London next month.

On the same day that Freeman’s Hindman announced it would rebrand simply as Freeman’s (see ATG No 2718), the firm held a $2.5m two-part sale of Old Masters and 19th century European art.

An enlarged copy of the original His Master’s Voice picture by Francis Barraud (1856-1924) is now on display at the Huguemont Museum in Rochester after being bought for a four-figure sum.

Lovers’ eyes became a la mode from c.1790 and remained fashionable in the courts and affluent families of England, Russia, France and North America until the early 1830s.

The annual specialist Antique Tile Fair has now, sadly, been cancelled.

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A trio of works by Cumbrian artist Sheila Fell (1931-79) were among the highlights of Newcastle saleroom Anderson & Garland’s (25% buyer’s premium) latest Modern Art & Design Auction.