UK

The United Kingdom accounts for more than one fifth of the global art market sales and is the second biggest art market after the US.

Through auctioneers, dealers, fairs and markets - and a burgeoning online sector - buyers, collectors and sellers of art and antiques can easily access a vibrant network of intermediaries and events around the country. The UK's museums also house a wealth of impressive collections

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Georgian microscope is among five lots to watch

24 August 2026

With estimates from £200, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week

Teapot

Crescent mark stirs up bidding on liner teapot

21 August 2026

An Edwardian ‘Regent Plate’ teapot by the Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Company of London sold to a UK bidder for £4300 (plus 25% buyer’s premium) at Adam Partridge in Liverpool.

Chelsea FC 1954-55 league title medal

Chelsea football amateur helped win the first-ever league title

21 August 2026

Remarkably, given Chelsea FC’s modern-day huge spending and multi-year lucrative contracts, two of the squad who helped to win their first-ever league title in 1954-55 were amateurs.

Ptolemaic bronze

Egyptian antiquities emerge in London

21 August 2026

A small collection of Egyptian antiquities comes for sale at Catherine Southon in Chislehurst, south-east London, on September 9.

Portrait miniature of Anne Lefroy

Jane Austen’s House buys portrait miniature of writer’s friend and mentor at auction

21 August 2026

A portrait miniature of Anne Lefroy, a writer who was close friends and a mentor of Jane Austen, has been acquired by Jane Austen’s House in Chawton, Hampshire.

Toasting the Bride by Louis Wain

Louis Wain wedding scene is toast of Gillingham auction

21 August 2026

Hugely popular in the Edwardian era, Louis Wain’s (1869-1939) anthropomorphic cats continue to charm a 21st century audience.

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Necklace gifted from artist Sir David Young Cameron to his wife

21 August 2026

This fine mother of pearl, citrine and chalcedony Arts & Crafts necklace was a gift from the Scottish artist Sir David Young Cameron (1865-1945) to his wife Jeanie on Christmas Day 1911.

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Welsh ceramics designer Weston Young lived a life full of creativity and chaos

21 August 2026

Archive and avian template for porcelain designs reflect the life of a remarkable 19th century polymath

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Interview with Runjeet Singh: ‘I’ve always liked to challenge myself’

21 August 2026

Runjeet Singh is an Indian and Islamic art dealer. A collector first, he began dealing in antiques in 2014 and then opened a British Asian Contemporary art gallery this April in Royal Leamington Spa. The gallery operates alongside his antiques-focused dealership. Here he tells ATG all about his business

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Tempting tazze courtesy of maker Ker take £16,000

21 August 2026

Estimated at £10,000-15,000, a pair of Scottish Queen Anne tazze hammered for £16,000 at Dawsons (27.5% buyer’s premium) in Maidenhead, Berkshire on July 23.

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Bath Book Fair: Beautiful city, bountiful business

21 August 2026

Joint ABA and PBFA books fair in Bath praised as ideal for meeting customers and fellow traders

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Calcutta Government House ledger recording weights of visitors sells at a hefty £18,500

21 August 2026

Register bizarrely contains the stats of notables as part of a social ritual

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Watch was sold after princesses took their pick from Queen Charlotte's possessions

21 August 2026

This Regency open-faced pocket watch tells an interesting story.

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Lot of Love: Detling Showground Antiques & Vintage Fair's summer success

21 August 2026

Traders – both newcomers and regulars – enjoy good sales at bustling fair in Kent

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Fleas leap to west of the capital

21 August 2026

Successful series of London fairs expands to use huge space under concrete canopy of a road flyover

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Isfahan to Islington: tiles ended up with ‘almost legendary’ dealer Jack Webb

21 August 2026

Safavid examples from the north London dealer's collection find their latest homes after palace demolition

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Zoffoli cast of the Farnese Hercules found in a box under the stairs steps up to £12,000 hammer

21 August 2026

Giacomo Zoffoli (c.1731-85) and his younger brother Giovanni (c.1745-1805) ran a highly successful workshop in Rome, specialising in the bronze casting of reproductions of antique originals.

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Go to school for the weird, the wacky and the wonderful

21 August 2026

Antiques dealer Benjmin Smith’s near uncontrollable passion, which he refers to as “the habit”, has seen him create a fantastical assemblage that takes up nearly every inch of space in the Lowestoft home he shares with his partner Hayley Miller and their two young children.

Stolen silver

Suspects charged after Chipping Norton antiques centre theft

20 August 2026

Thames Valley Police have charged two men in connection with a burglary at Station Mill Antiques, Chipping Norton.

Art dealer James Birch

Dealer James Birch to sell items at Sworders

20 August 2026

Art dealer James Birch was brought up surrounded by art.

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