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A panel front from a cassone will feature in the April 24 sale of Old Master paintings to be held by Dorotheum in Vienna.

Neil Packer’s day job as a warehouse manager may seem tame compared to his out-of-hours activities.

The designer Emma Bridgewater began experimenting with what are now her signature sponge-painted ceramics in the bedroom of a former squat in Brixton.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including news of China's protest at the sale of a bronze ying taken from the Summer Palace.

The sort of large-scale, widely varied provincial auction which had Cheffins auctioneer Luke Macdonald enthusing “it was like selling used to be 15 years ago” after his March 7-8 sale at Cambridge (ATG No 2335) is rarer than it used to be, but plainly alive and well and prospering.

An oil by the famous Maltese painter Giuseppe Cali (1846-1930) fetched a five-figure sum when it went under the hammer at Moore Allen & Innocent (20% buyer’s premium) in Cirencester.

Our weekly selection from salerooms and dealerships.

Our weekly selection from salerooms and dealerships.

The central 350-lot section of the auction of clocks, watches and scientific instruments to be held by Skinner in Marlborough on April 20 comprises a single-owner collection of European tools.

MADAM – I concur with everything that Michael Baggott wrote in ATG No 2235.

ATG’s selection of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com from the period March 23-April 4, 2018. This includes both the highest prices over estimate and the top prices paid online.

Two William and Mary side tables, one period and the other catalogued as ‘style’, bringing different results in March.

Early recipe books can make for absorbing and, to modern readers, occasionally comic or puzzling reading, as demonstrated in three examples from recent sales.

Ruby is the theme at fair held in grand venue as trade body marks its 40th birthday milestone.

Martin Tinney Gallery celebrates the centenary of Sir Kyffin Williams’ (1918-2006) birth with a selling exhibition of his paintings and works on paper.

The art and antiques trade is calling on the government to re-think its planned restrictions on the sale of antique items containing small amounts of elephant ivory.

Richard Madley, a former director of Dreweatts, has been appointed UK agent for Sydney firm Shapiro Auctioneers, to source objects with an Australian background or provenance to be sold Down Under.

Sir William Rothenstein’s portrait of Ida John née Nettleship has been named ‘the face of the fair’ for the seventh edition of the CADA fair from April 19-22.

Roland Arkell and Noelle McElhatton on what the new ivory law could mean for art and antiques.

Used to dramatic effect on the cover of the catalogue for a Forum Auctions (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) sale, shown below is one of a collection of around 125 monochrome watercolour drawings of Irish lighthouses and the Irish coastline produced c.1860-67.