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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

New exhibitors to stand at 2017 LAPADA fair
13 June 2017The LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair hosts 11 first-time exhibitors this year.

NAVA head Colin Young's message to auctioneers: ‘Get qualified and regulated’
12 June 2017The new president of The National Association of Valuers and Auctioneers (NAVA) has called for all auctioneers to be qualified and regulated.

'Little Gurie' Fabergé silver cup delivers £19,000 result
12 June 2017Among the pieces of Fabergé bringing competition at last week’s Russian art sales in London was this c.1909-13 silver vodka cup offered at Sotheby’s.

Lots Road Auctions to relocate
12 June 2017Lots Road Auctions is to relocate to a purpose-built new saleroom as part of a property development on the Chelsea street.

Arlington Conservation stock sale reflects contraction in market
12 June 2017Surrey auctioneers Ewbank’s is to sell the stock-in-trade of furniture restorers Arlington Conservation on June 23.

Ornate 16th century gun emerges from talk to local Cheshire group
12 June 2017Autograph albums, pocket watches and vases are the more usual fare for a valuer who gives a talk to a local group and asks people to bring along interesting items. A superb late 16th century gun is a very different matter.

End-of-the-revived-pier show roars into Hastings
12 June 2017Six years after the Victorian Hastings Pier was gutted by fire, it reopened last year after a £14m redevelopment. The funding included £11m from the Heritage Lottery Fund as well as monies raised locally and regionally.

Lots Road's Nick Carter: ‘clients want us to stick with our Sunday service’
12 June 2017Lots Road Auctions has been in the same premises since it was founded by owner Roger Ross in 1979. The establishment is well known among the Chelsea set and was even the star of the Channel Four show The Auction House. But changes are afoot. Here Nick Carter, manager and senior auctioneer, discusses the firm’s future with ATG.

Rediscovered John Fromanteel longcase clock emerges at Bonhams
12 June 2017In recent years, Bonhams has uncovered several previously unrecorded English Golden Age clocks and at the sale of Fine Clocks on June 29 it will be presenting a recently discovered longcase clock by London maker John Fromanteel.

Olympia fair draws out designs for life
12 June 2017Sue Norman is a practised hand at The Art & Antiques Fair Olympia (June 26-July 2). As an exhibitor at this west London event for 36 uninterrupted years, she knows the show well, is familiar with the crowd it attracts and approaches it strategically.

Bakelite watch survives ravages of time
12 June 2017In 1953 Pan Am Airlines approached Rolex with a request for a watch that could show the time simultaneously in two different time zones.

Dealers join forces on Cotswolds campaign
12 June 2017Manfred Schotten and Christopher Clarke Antiques join forces this summer for their regular Cotswolds exhibition which takes place every second year.

Emporium is added to Asian art empire
12 June 2017Asian art dealer Gerald Davison has taken a selling space in The Emporium in Berkshire, which he plans to run as well as his current space at Acreman St Antiques & Interiors.

Harleston market takes to the road for the fourth time
12 June 2017The prolific 18th century writer Daniel Defoe, of Robinson Crusoe fame, wrote poetically of the River Waveney which forms the 50-mile boundary of the Waveney Valley between Norfolk and Suffolk.

Tower of strength as figural clock takes £5000 at Chiswick Auctions
12 June 2017Figural clocks combining novelty and automaton features were very popular in the 19th century, many of them being of French manufacture.

Criterion open valuation office in South Kensington
12 June 2017Criterion Auctioneers has opened a valuation office in South Kensington in the hope of snaring some of the business left by the closure of Christie’s in the area.

Handmade ceramics charging into Nottinghamshire event
12 June 2017Figurative sculptor Christy Keeney from Donegal, Ireland, has been an exhibitor at the Earth and Fire International Ceramic Fair in Nottinghamshire for 16 of the 22 annual events held so far.

Chance discovery at auction inspires Suffolk dealer to launch a book of historic views
12 June 2017A Suffolk antiques dealer who bought a cache of 19th and 20th century photographs and postcards of his home town at auction has used them to good effect by publishing a pictorial record in a book.

It’s teatime at Two C’s
12 June 2017Fully booked with 90 standholders at the luxury Chateau Impney Hotel at Droitwich Spa in Worcestershire is Two C’s Antiques Fairs’ summer fair on Saturday and Sunday, June 17-18.

BADA’s Borwick loses Kensington seat
12 June 2017Victoria Borwick, president of the British Antiques Dealers’ Association, lost her Kensington seat following two recounts in the constituency at last week's General Election.

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