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Bonhams has moved its annual Greek art auction to France from London following Brexit.

Items belonging to the late comedian and entertainer Nicholas Parsons (1923-2020) are being unveiled at The Buxton Decorative Antiques & Art Fair in Derbyshire – the first ‘in person’ event of its type to take place in England this year.

The best competition at a recent mixed-category sale came for two Old Masters.

Lyon & Turnbull’s May 14 sale in London includes this flambe glazed pear-shaped bottle vase that carries a Qianlong mark and may be of the period.

This late Ming (17th century) jade water pot in the form of a chimera will be offered by Dreweatts on May 19.

With a lack of fairs during the pandemic and fewer scheduled in the near future, picture dealer Jeremy Green has taken the plunge and returned to running a physical gallery after 15 years of running his dealership from home and standing at fairs.

Bonhams conducts a general sale of Asian art in Knightsbridge on May 10.

Fifteen furniture lots make five-figure sums as Dreweatts bidders show encouraging confidence

Spotlight on businesses in the bustling antiques havens of Suffolk and Norfolk

Edward Seago was a favourite of the establishment, royals in particular, but has a wider appeal such as his views of Hong Kong

The May 11-14 auction at Adam Partridge will feature the last 40 lots of Meiji period Satsuma from a noted Worcestershire collection.

Schedules for all sorts of auction series have been shaken up by pandemic restrictions, and the Asian art sales reflect this – but plenty is still on offer at the upcoming series

Morphets (20% buyer’s premium) of Harrogate sold a Mouseman bureau for a tub-thumping £36,000 on April 15.

Guest and Gray, trading from a gallery in central London at 58 Davies Street, decided to launch a new website during lockdown.

A Mitchells (22% buyer’s premium) sale included selected contents from Greystoke Castle near Penrith – home to the Howard family for over 500 years.

Our weekly listing of UK and Irish book auctions.

A portrait argued to be of author Emily Brontë is coming to auction this month.

This unmarked teapot and cover, offered by Dreweatts, dates from the first decade of porcelain production at the Chelsea factory.

The sale at Roseberys London on May 18 includes this gold and silver-inlaid bronze tapir-form zun dated to the Yuan or early Ming period.