South-east England

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.

Copies of royal portraits from across the centuries are something that always seems to catch the eye when you flick through (or scroll through) the reams of pictures listed in auction catalogues.

Chinese emperors certainly got the message when it came to artistic advances

American customers are reappearing and dealers are hoping for a jubilee trade bounce

The recent auction at Bellmans (22% buyer’s premium) included the firm’s biannual horological offering.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

Among recent sales with a lyrical element was Mallams’ (25% buyer’s premium) Art & Music auction on April 6 in Oxford.

This rare doucai porcelain vase, with Qianlong marks and probably of period, provided a classic tale of discovery in the saga of the Chinese boom.

A family of antiques dealers are hoping to raise funds to continue the restoration of two Elizabethan barns in the Surrey countryside that house their centre.

Popular figures were created in Chelsea by husband and wife duo Charles and Nell Vyse

Sperm whale teeth, acquired from mammals that had beached on local reefs, had a deep significance to Fijian society.

Jackie Edwards of ACVR Events is getting even busier with the antiques, brocantes and art markets she runs across southern England: nine at the last count.

Try original advertising artwork if you want to capture the atmosphere of an era.

Three upcoming UK book auctions

When the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was liberated on April 15, 1945, a party of British Red Cross nurses and doctors stayed and tended those they could help back to health.

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

First-time exhibitor William Cook Antiques brings a pair of early 19th century gilded Japanese screens to the 56th Annual Buxton Antiques Fair.

Among the works by 19th century Italian artists generating interest at recent UK auctions was a landscape by Giovanni ‘Nino’ Costa (1826-1903).