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A hitherto lost portrait of Robert Burns by Sir Henry Raeburn has sold for 136-times top estimate at auction in south London. Modestly guided at just £300-500, it hammered for £68,000 at Wimbledon Auctions on March 31. Raeburn (1756-1823) never painted Scotland’s national poet from life.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including the news Welsh auction house Rogers Jones has acquired new premises.

These two silver lots bear the mark of Henry George Murphy (1884-1939), whose Falcon Studio produced some of the finest English silver of the inter-war era.

Only a decade ago Carlton Ware designer Violet Elmer (1907-88) was a relative unknown compared with her contemporaries Clarice Cliff, Susie Cooper and Charlotte Rhead.

Archive on offer in Missouri saleroom includes items relating to a landmark 1913 procession for women

Swiss Alpine scene takes top spot in a family consignment as UK sale reveals considerable demand

Among the earliest examples of Australian gold rush jewellery are the simple signet rings sold to miners in the settlement of Ballarat in the 1850s as a memento of the boomtown days.

ATG’s pick of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com, featuring both the highest prices over-estimate and the top prices paid online

The Cotswold Art & Antiques Dealers’ Association (CADA) held its first London fair - Cotswold Art Antiques Chelsea - at Chelsea Old Town Hall on the King’s Road from March 20-23.

The London-based design company Isokon, which produced furniture by Wells Coates and Marcel Breuer, and Gerald Summers’ firm Makers of Simple Furniture both explored the radical possibilities of lamination.

As the Depression took hold, the clamour for luxury goods in tropical hardwoods, silver and shagreen was replaced by a demand for less expensive consumer goods that combined the modern aesthetic with new materials and industrial production.

Michael Cooke, known to many as ‘Mapman Michael’, passed away on March 14 aged 79.

Choice examples of British embroidery crossed the block at Brunk Auctions (23% buyer’s premium) in Asheville, North Carolina.

On Friday, April 4, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $3096.60 / €2810.76 /£2382.00

The debut novel by F Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), This Side of Paradise, was a sensation on its release in March 1920.

Shelley produced the geometric Vogue and Mode shape tea and coffee wares between 1930-32 - both the designs of Eric Slater (1902-84) who had worked at the factory since the end of the First World War.

Flatware from a French silver dinner service made for George III was pre-empted by the Louvre Museum at auction in Paris.

New Zealand-born architect Keith Murray (1892-1981) began to make designs for Wedgwood on a commercial basis in 1933, joining a stable of designers that included Daisy Makeig-Jones and John Skeaping.

With this year marking the 100th anninversary of the exhibition that gave Art Deco its name, we report on the British designers whose creations appear on the market

The Fine Sale on March 26 at Cheffins in Cambridge included a group of pictures consigned by a descendant of the artist known as Philip Villamil of Jamaica (1814-78).