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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Mr Carter’s tavern mug is no small beer at £3400

14 April 2025

Estimated at £500-800, this large Vauxhall salt-glazed stoneware tavern mug sold for £3400 at Moore Allen & Innocent (21% buyer’s premium) in Cirencester, Gloucestershire.

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My word, what a Louis Vuitton trunk...

14 April 2025

Trunks for books which could be placed on a table, showcasing the volumes inside, are among Louis Vuitton’s most popular and collectable early models.

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The Sunnyside furniture project

14 April 2025

The few surviving pieces of furniture designed by Archibald Knox were mainly produced at the Sunnyside Workshops in Douglas, founded by Knox with his friend and patron Wilson James Ashburner in 1899.

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Fairs news in brief: events in Essex and Newcastle

14 April 2025

Ken Besford of Durham Promotions NE, organiser of the Great North Decorative Antique Fair, is heading down the straight for the spring edition (Saturday and Sunday, April 26-27) of the triannual event he launched last year at Newcastle Racecourse.

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Ceramics star among lots from Antiques Roadshow expert and former Christie's specialist

14 April 2025

Collection amassed by Christie’s veteran Hugo Morley-Fletcher includes ‘special group’ of porcelain

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Early glimpse of glittering talents such as Bawden and Ravilious

14 April 2025

Paul Nash, looking back at the 1924-25 period when he taught design at the Royal College of Art, said: “I was fortunate in being there during an outbreak of talent and can remember at least eight men and women who have made names for themselves since then in a variety of different directions.”

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The Olympia exhibition that led to a dealing career

14 April 2025

When Anthony Bernbaum curated the exhibition Archibald Knox, Beauty and Modernity, a Designer Ahead of his Time at the Olympia International Art & Antiques Fair in 2014, he was working in investment banking.

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Archibald Knox, a collecting history

14 April 2025

A closer look at the post-war appreciation of the great designer including exhibitions and auction landmarks

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Whitefriars Banjo vase plucks a top price

14 April 2025

One of perhaps only two known ruby red versions of the Whitefriars Banjo vase sold for £17,200 in Devon on April 9.

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Exhibitors happy to travel to Enys House

14 April 2025

Launched in 2019 as an annual event but biannual since 2022, such is its appeal to both dealers and visitors, the first of this year’s antiques and decorative fairs held in the Georgian interior of Enys House runs on Saturday and Sunday, April 26-27.

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An island trail in Archibald Knox’s footsteps

14 April 2025

Local tourist bodies believe that Knox can do for the Isle of Man what Mackintosh has done for Glasgow.

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Later spot for Petersfield this month as first fair under Ben Cooper control comes up

14 April 2025

The Petersfield Antiques Fair is now in its 52nd year since the event’s dawn in the early 1970s.

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Reformer and religious author later burnt at the stake

14 April 2025

Book was published by champion of Swiss Calvinism four years before he became a Protestant martyr

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Finding Knox ‘was like falling in love’

14 April 2025

Dr Stephen Martin first encountered Archibald Knox in a New York bookstore in 1990.

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Sèvres plate puts on a display of French chivalry

14 April 2025

Created shortly after the 1830 Revolution, when Louis Philippe ruled as ‘king of the French’, the ‘Service de la Chevalerie’ was a great example of romantic historicism.

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Cotswolds School lessons in style

12 April 2025

The Art Deco design movement found a unique expression in Cotswolds School furniture - one that sought to blend clean lines with traditional English materials and craftsmanship.

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JPR Williams’ Barbarians jersey sells at Rogers Jones

11 April 2025

The Barbarians jersey worn by JPR Williams (1949-2024) in one of rugby union’s most famous matches sold at Rogers Jones for £27,500 (plus 22% buyer’s premium) on April 10.

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Keith Vaughan flies out the door in online sale

11 April 2025

Keith Vaughan, Claughton Pellew, Etienne Krier and Gerald Leslie Brockhurst prove popular in Abbott & Holder's latest edition of The List.

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UK regains second place as global art market cools

11 April 2025

The global art market contracted by 12% in 2024, achieving an estimated $57.5bn in total sales, according to a new report.

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Sienese gold ground paintings spotlighted in Christie’s private sales exhibition

11 April 2025

Christie’s private sales department is holding a selling exhibition titled Siena and the Renaissance.

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