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Details announced for the Chelsea brocante revived by Matthew Adams
05 November 2018As we announced in April, fair organiser Matthew Adams of Adams Antique Fairs is relaunching an event at Chelsea Town Hall this month which he last held in 2005.

Ballet designs take the stage at Abbott and Holder
05 November 2018Yolanda Sonnabend’s (1935-2015) costume and stage designs helped revolutionise the look of British ballet.

Rediscovered Schumann piano masterpiece comes to auction at Bonhams
31 October 2018Bonhams is to offer an extensive handwritten draft of Robert Schumann’s 1837 piano masterpiece Fantasiestücke Opus 12 – written in the composer’s own hand.

Rediscovered Iznik charger leads London’s Islamic Week sales after record-breaking 20-minute bidding battle
29 October 2018A newly discovered Ottoman charger described as one of the most important pieces of Iznik pottery remaining in private hands was the toast of Islamic Week, selling at Sotheby’s for a spectacular £4.55m (£5.4m including buyer’s premium).

The timely record for punning Lutyens clock
29 October 2018Included in the Important Design sale at Phillips in London on October 18 was an unusual mantel clock designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869- 1944).

Antiquities for all in Charles Ede Mayfair Christmas exhibition
29 October 2018Gallery emphasises ahead of exhibition that items can be bought for as little as £100...

Tooting calls lovers of vintage and retro
29 October 2018So Last Century Vintage and Retro Fairs, aka dealers Alison Davis and Alan Old, run their popular south London events in Catford, at two locations in Beckenham and in Tooting.

De Waal netsuke at auction – minus hare with amber eyes
29 October 2018Netsuke from the collection of ceramicist and author Edmund de Waal, made famous by the 2010 memoir 'The Hare with the Amber Eyes', go under the hammer in London.

The importance of provenance as two works set multi-estimate sums at Bonhams
29 October 2018Provenance proved the key component for two paintings that achieved multi-estimate sums at Bonhams (25/20/12.5% buyer’s premium) in London.

Poignant teddy bear taken to the front features in First World War exhibition at fair
29 October 2018One of the highlights of the upcoming International Antique Doll, Teddy Bear and Toy Fair: 200 Years of Childhood at Kensington Town Hall will be an exhibition of toys to commemorate the centenary on November 11 of the end of the First World War.

Rise in interest in fauvist Brasilier as his works go on show at Opera Gallery
29 October 2018A vivid palette of primary colours and an equestrian theme in a natural yet abstracted landscape: the elements that define André Brasilier’s painting 'Cavalcade d’automne' are integral to his wider output.

Fleamarket leaps onto south London street
29 October 2018Launched in 2016, the fleamarket which runs every weekend at Flat Iron Square around seven railway arches on London’s Bankside in Southwark Street, SE1, has now extended into adjacent Union Street.

Six places to find art and antiques around London next week including Winter Olympia and an Old Masters auction
26 October 2018Buyers and collectors descend on London for the Winter Olympia fair and there’s lots more for art and antiques hunters to see and do around the capital next week.

Rediscovered Iznik charger takes £4.55m at Sotheby's auction
25 October 2018The Debbane charger, a newly-discovered 15th century Iznik dish, was the toast of Sotheby’s Islamic Week offering, selling for a spectacular £4.55m (£5.4m including buyer’s premium).

Franklin crackles in saleroom
22 October 2018Private Collections, an October 3 sale at Bonhams (25/20/12.5% buyer’s premium), offered works of art from a number of sources and among lots from the estate of the late Victor, 3rd Viscount Churchill – a cousin of Winston – there were a few books.

Hop to it for a gallery showcase
22 October 2018Asian Art in London is a chance to find outstanding examples of eastern art at galleries across the capital. Here, Frances Allitt spotlights some of what’s on offer

Get the measure of the market with a metric pioneer
22 October 2018They may not have been the most photogenic lots in the catalogue of a recent London sale, but a couple of lots were highly attractive for their significance in the maths and measurements field.

Asian Art in London Awards: the shortlist
22 October 2018We present candidates for the 2018 AAL Awards, co-sponsored by ATG. From this list judges will pick two outstanding works of art, one from a dealer and the other from an auction house

Letters from Japan by 'father of studio pottery' Bernard Leach sell at Somerset auction to a Surrey museum
18 October 2018An archive of letters by leading studio pottery maker Bernard Leach (1887-1979) has been bought at auction by a museum which holds the largest collection of his material in the country.

Sotheby’s rolls out the barrel
15 October 2018Investigation into wine storage is unusual success in computing library auction.

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