Oxfordshire

Colour is at the core of Zuleika Gallery’s latest exhibition, one of several to focus on British abstract art this summer.

Three stately home car boots are on the way in the next few months.

In a style admired in the gardens at Versailles and at a House & Garden sale in Abingdon, a pair of urns after those created for Louis XIV’s great project led the field at Mallams (25% buyer’s premium).

Event held in Oxfordshire village includes a talk by dealer who also stars in a TV antiques show

A personal collection of Second World War pictures compiled by dealer John Noott over more than 40 years is on display at the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum.

Judy, Lady McAlpine is looking for more vintage traders to take space at two events in Henley this summer.

Described by organiser Gary Wallis as the “Glasto of the antiques calendar”, the Henley Décor Fair is back at the Henley Showground by the Thames with a four-day packed schedule.

A collectors’ timed online sale at Mallams (25% buyer’s premium) included a group lot of early 20th century juvenalia owned by a key figure in Second World War naval intelligence.

Oxfordshire dealership Witney Antiques’ latest exhibition features early example of band samplers.

A cast of Hamo Thornycroft’s Teucer, classic of the New Sculpture movement, sold for £20,000 (plus 21% buyer’s premium) at JS Auctions in Banbury on September 23.

The Minton ‘fungi and foxes’ tureen is among the rarest of all majolica game pie dishes.

The sale at Swan Fine Art (21% buyer’s premium) in Tetsworth, Oxfordshire, on August 11-12 included two Irish ‘freedom’ boxes, c.1775.

Items collected and meticulously recorded from the 1970s onwards by a trade couple had the attractions of ‘dealer’s choice’ provenances when offered at Hanson Holloway’s Ross (25% buyer’s premium).

A few antiques businesses operate in garden centres but sadly one of these is closing.

Business is doing so well at the newly acquired and renovated antiques centre in Wallingford, formerly the Lamb Arcade, that turnover has increased by 25%.

Calling all antiques and vintage dealers, more of whom are needed to swell the numbers in the antiques street at the annual Thames Traditional Boat Festival held this year from Friday to Sunday, July 15-17.

A group of 140 lots owned by dealer Joanne Booth is coming to auction in Henley-on-Thames this summer.

Chairs and sofas by Howard & Sons are a pricey niche market these days, largely immune to the varying fortunes of the wider market for Victorian and Edwardian furniture.

Tunes play an important part at this four-day riverside fair with a festival feel