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Asian Art in London’s summer edition returns this year for its second outing.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

New organiser reveals strong trade interest and visitor pre-bookings for the eagerly awaited event

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions

A new antiques centre has opened in a former Baptist chapel in Newark.

The British Antique Dealers’ Association (BADA) is weighing up selling its investment property in London.

A medal awarded to Pre- Raphaelite Brotherhood artist William Holman-Hunt (1827- 1910) has been purchased by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford from dealer Tregeagle Fine Art.

The Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association (PBFA) has launched a new two-day premier book fair to take place in Preston this summer.

English architect and designer Owen Jones (1809-74) was no stranger to large decorative projects when he was hired to design the furniture and interiors for No 16 Carlton House Terrace in St James’s.

While the achievement of Manchester City players in winning three titles in consecutive seasons – with a treble – is certainly admirable, spare a thought for Tom Wilson, a footballer of a much earlier era.

This pair of Bow porcelain figures of a cockerel and a hen sold for £7200 (plus 25% buyer’s premium) at Dore & Rees in Frome.

Despite its many shortcomings in terms of accuracy and reliability, the flintlock Long Land Pattern smoothbore musket – or Brown Bess to give it its more familiar nickname – remained in use from 1722 until the introduction of the percussion cap in 1838.

More than 50 dealers are taking part in London Art Week with exhibitions in their galleries or online

The team at the freshly re-branded Harper Field were in fine form for the opening of its brand new saleroom earlier this month.

Artefacts hailing from a vast geographical area come together in west London saleroom