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The latest sale of Cornish Art, Fine Art & Studio Pottery at Lay’s (21% buyer’s premium) in Penzance featured 85 lots from the personal art collection of Michael Hunt.

Dealer and mountaineer is fascinated by both the peak in real life and in a Doré depiction of first ascent

A group of seven works that were once part of the collection of noted connoisseur and scholar Kerrison Preston (1884-1974) came to a recent auction held by Duke’s (25% buyer’s premium) in Dorset.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the monthly Dorking Halls Antiques & Decorative Arts Fair, founded by the late Margaret Brown.

Inaugural Forum standalone auction achieves impressive results in south London

Among the most desirable of the Chinese export porcelain patterns made for the Dutch market is the so-called ‘skating lesson’ design.

A Mouseman single wardrobe with panelled adzed decoration sold for £7400 against a guide of £4000-6000 at Summersgills (18% buyer’s premium) in Easingwold, North Yorkshire.

A decade ago V&A curators used an X-ray to discover what was inside a vintage Christmas cracker made in the 1920s by the Tom Smith company without having to actually pull it. This revealed a small chocolate.

The Midcentury Modern team, aka Lucy Ryder Richardson, Petra Curtis and Tanya Pateman, are launching a pop-up on Saturday, June 13, with 40 dealers at a very cool venue in west London.

Contrasting contraptions both sell for strong five-figure sums in salerooms north and south

The golden age of topaz was the 18th and early 19th century.

Ruth Domanski and Shauna Donaldson launched an antiques brocante in the walled garden at the Grade I-listed Grantham House, a National Trust townhouse on the outskirts of the Lincolnshire town of the same name, in 2023.

It has been estimated there are between 500 and 1000 different types of marble-in-neck mineral water bottles based on the famous 1872 patent by Hiram Codd.

The world of Islamic art has lost one of its most beloved sons with the passing of Bashir Mohamed, a true visionary in his field who possessed the intuitive spirit of a hunter and the soul of a historian.

Stand-out lots from seven upcoming sales

A group of three works by LS Lowry (1887-1976) consigned from two separate sources appeared in a recent sale at Dawsons (27.5% buyer’s premium) in Maidenhead, Berkshire.

The Wurlitzer Company was founded in the US in 1856 and the Centennial 2000 jukebox model was created to commemorate the centenary anniversary.

Inventive pieces that can be broken down into modular elements – transformable jewels – began with the French parure in the court of Louis XIV.

A recent sale at Halls (24% buyer’s premium) in Shrewsbury included an exceptional Swiss music box: a Sublime Harmony orchestral music box by George Baker & Co, Geneva.

Holbeinesque is the term used to describe Victorian jewellery inspired by the Northern Renaissance and the jewels shown in the paintings and sketches of Hans Holbein.