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A watercolour of Villefranche-sur-Mer on the Côte d’Azur by Arthur Knighton-Hammond (1875-1970) is included in Messum’s exhibition on the artist.

Dr Christopher Dresser’s conical sugar bowl with three angled leg-like supports is one of the great ‘eureka’ moments in Victorian design.

Available from the school’s own bookshop from 1937 was a printed collection of Harrow School Songs, but it was a rather special copy that sold for £7500.

This painting of Mont Blanc as seen from the Lago Chérouit, Val d’Aosta, Italy, is among the works featured in this year’s Peaks and Glaciers exhibition at John Mitchell Fine Paintings.

Cups with coconut bowls mounted in silver or silver-gilt were fashionable rarities in western Europe throughout the 16th and early 17th century. At the time the coconut was, like other ‘exotics’ such as nautilus shells or imported pottery and porcelain, held in high esteem.

Research reveals £265,000 auction purchase is a celebrated work from Grand Ducal workshops

The Portobello & Golborne Market has won a national prize.

Peta Smyth has been dealing in antique textiles since 1976 and her shop at 42 Moreton Street in Pimlico, west London, is renowned for its extensive array of fine textiles, attracting a loyal and diverse clientele of interior designers, antiques dealers and collectors.

Rare books specialist Shapero Rare Books run by Bernard Shapero is a regular exhibitor at TEFAF.

How love has been represented in jewellery through the ages was the topic of discussion at Grays Antiques in London.

The Open Art Fair (TOAF) is investigating new dates and venues after it was forced to scrap its edition for this year.

The workload of Lucy Ryder Richardson and Petra Curtis, founders of the MidCentury Modern Shows, is now so taken up with the property staging side of their business and other projects that they now focus solely on the fairs they run at Dulwich College.

London auctioneer Charles Miller holds his next Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art auction on April 25

Early stereoscopic images featured in the collection of a dealer curious about how technology transformed life in Victorian times

Artists who both painted Rome city and surrounding views stand out in a country house sale

Steam engine made in France and later installed in Sussex museum graced same exhibition as the Eiffel Tower

This instrument dates from the founding days of one of the world’s most significant aerospace manufacturers: Short Brothers