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Refurbishment of the East Anglian art school’s former home and an exhibition could push prices up

This 1930s pencil and gouache for the Lawn Tennis Championship Meetings was a poster design for London Underground.

News earlier this month of the discovery of Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s expedition ship, in the icy waters of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica, will surely have made the hearts of dealers and collectors of polar material beat a little faster.

Prices for Tirzah Garwood (1908-51) continue to rise.

Nottingham sale showcases wares of ‘the most complete manufacturer in England in metal’

Picasso produced more than 3500 ceramic designs and created 633 different ceramic editions between 1947-71.

Carol Walker of Carol Walker Antiques/Frocks and Fripperys specialises in vintage clothes.

The Lalique glass market – one where most pieces fall in the £500-10,000 price bracket – was once a space dominated in the UK by the major international auction houses, particularly Christie’s and then Bonhams. But the landscape has changed.

This early 19th century walnut and ebonised circular breakfast table sold at Hawleys (20% buyer’s premium) is very much in the Grecian revival style.

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An early work believed to have been painted by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88) at the age of 16 has emerged at Cambridge saleroom Cheffins.