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Joy O’Meara of Jay Fairs is disappointed but sanguine about the news that the parish hall in the Oxfordshire village of Benson will close for refurbishment from June to October, thus causing her to cancel her monthly antique and vintage fairs at the venue.

Good art at a great price in regional sales.

Bloomfield Auctions (15% buyer’s premium) in Belfast achieved a house record on May 11 with the sale of this William De Morgan vase for £15,000.

This Fijian kava bowl, or daveniyaqona, carved in the form of a shallow figure, would have been used for both the consumption of kava (yaqona – the intoxicating liquor of the pepper plant) by priests during religious rites and to hold sacred oil.

This prototype side chair by pioneering Victorian designer Christopher Dresser (1834-1904) was discovered during the pandemic.

London’s art world between the wars was a surprisingly diverse community.

Sotheby’s has made changes to its Old Master department in London.

The restrictions operating during the latest lockdowns are continuing to ease in countries including France and the Republic of Ireland.

In the bicentenary year of his death, relics connected to Napoleon will inevitably catch the eye.

Drawings can sell for six figures but a more affordable way to own work by the artist exists

Jane Alexander of Dovehouse Fine Antiques Fairs is back with her fully booked socially distanced antiques and decorative art fair at the Dorking Halls.

John Gresham was a third-generation member of a wealthy Hull timber-importing family.

'Five Circles' first appeared as part of Ben Nicholson’s (1894-1982) publication 23 Gravures in 1934 and was then released as a limited-edition print. The initial run of approximately 30 signed copies was followed by various reprintings.

Organiser of event by the Thames is buoyed up by record number of stands confirmed