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Chandigarh furniture designed by Jeanneret features in Cambridge and London auctions

21 April 2025

In 1950, the Swiss artist, architect and designer Pierre Jeanneret (1896-1967) joined his cousin Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (who assumed the pseudonym Le Corbusier) to create a new capital of Punjab.

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Dealers Peppiatt and Rutherford team up for the first time

21 April 2025

Guy Peppiatt has produced a new catalogue which is a combined effort with Emma Rutherford: the first time the two dealers have collaborated in this way, though they have worked together in the past.

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Bible from a remarkable charity consignment leads an eclectic selection

21 April 2025

Oxfam discoveries from a pile of donations include Chinese religious rarity, Communist manifesto and Dickens

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Former footwear designer stepped into fairs world

21 April 2025

Last week in this column we mentioned dealer Gerard Coles who told us that among the fairs and events that he exhibits at, the Spotlight Market in Hackney “keeps me young”.

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Latest selection from London bookseller focuses on the digital and social landscape

21 April 2025

Books dealership Peter Harrington’s latest catalogue explores how technology has shaped, controlled, and empowered the voiceless, while fuelling the flow of information and culture.

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Rediscovered Hans Coper vase found in garden flies over estimate at Chiswick Auctions

17 April 2025

A monumental work by Hans Coper (1920-81) which was found in a London garden among weeds and covered in snails sold at more than three times estimate at Chiswick Auctions.

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Third tranche of Bill Terry archery collection goes under the hammer

16 April 2025

More than 150 lots of archery memorabilia from the final tranche of the Bill Terry collection appeared at Olympia Auctions on April 16.

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Unique Timurid manuscript folio estimated £2m-3m at Christie’s

16 April 2025

A folio from a rare 15th century Timurid manuscript will be offered at Christie’s in London on May 1.

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Lowry’s Going to the Mill goes to auction 99 years after purchase

14 April 2025

An early work by LS Lowry (1887-1976) first sold to the literary editor of The Manchester Guardian for £10 in 1926 and kept by his family is now estimated at £700,000-£1m in a May 1-2 auction.

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Child prodigy Mendelssohn on song in saleroom

14 April 2025

String of portraits offered by south London auction house included sketch of the 12-year-old musical prodigy

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Rolex worn by first British pilot to fly solo round the world comes to the rostrum

14 April 2025

A Rolex GMT-Master 'Pepsi' stainless steel automatic dual time wristwatch first worn by Sheila Scott OBE (1922-88) on her record-breaking solo flight around the world is coming to auction.

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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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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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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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Gallery celebrates iconic decorative painter

09 April 2025

John Sutcliffe championed the art of restoration using paint, based on his understanding of architectural history and his skill in wielding a brush.

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London gallery offers Swedish gems in timed auction

08 April 2025

With many paintings offered for under £500, this sale of mid-century Swedish art is a decorative gift for those with a limited budget.

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Elizabeth I gold Sovereign strikes £75,000

07 April 2025

Held by the same Dutch family for just over 300 years, a very high-grade Elizabeth I gold Sovereign sold for £75,000 at London coin specialist Sovereign Rarities’ auction on March 13.

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London sale suggests works by US painter Horton are on the rise

07 April 2025

Swiss Alpine scene takes top spot in a family consignment as UK sale reveals considerable demand

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….and Cotswolds dealers in Chelsea

07 April 2025

The Cotswold Art & Antiques Dealers’ Association (CADA) held its first London fair - Cotswold Art Antiques Chelsea - at Chelsea Old Town Hall on the King’s Road from March 20-23.

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English delft features in Slater collection sale

07 April 2025

Graham Slater (1927-2024) was fascinated by relics of Stuart and Georgian Britain. His wife Rosemary shared his passions, including his love of mudlarking, exploring the banks of the Thames for fragments washed up by each new tide.

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