Print issue 2509 (18 September 2021)
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News
- Record bid for ‘young Australia’s chef d’oeuvre’ at auction
- 50 years of serving the trade
- Ivory Act faces final consultation ahead of ‘spring 2022’ enforcement
- Happy returns to Bond Street for a £4m-6m shredded Banksy
- Potburys closes auction arm
- How long is it ‘fair and reasonable’ to wait for a bidder to settle a £354,000 bill?
- Drinking a toast to the Bonnie Prince – in an English teapot
News Digest
- Pick of the week: Putting China on course for golf
- Bid Barometer: issue 2509
- Tagore ink painting brings Indian summer
- Precious metals prices: issue 2509
- News In Brief – including the conviction of a family behind the theft of Chinese jades
ATG: 50th anniversary
- Introduction: How ATG continues to support the fine art and antiques industry after half a century
- The first edition: Where are they now?
- Single-owner recollections: 20 longstanding ATG readers share their memories
- The story so far…50 years of headlines
- Timeline of events: 1971-1979
- Timeline of events: 1980-1989
- Timeline of events: 1990-1999
- Timeline of events: 2000-2009
- Timeline of events: 2010-2021
Auction Reports
- Maltby Millennium chess set checks in at Ewbank’s
- Irish provincial silver amassed by German collector
- Swig from this if gripped by gout
- Derby duo ready for research
- Bidders recognise maiolica dish as three centuries older than catalogued
- The hat fits for Lutyens
- It must be Malta again
- ART MARKET: Hardie and a Hockney triumph
- Roger Fry stirs up Bloomsbury passions
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Saleroom with a view on Forster
- Gandhi’s digits make five figures
- Rome and India emerge in London
- British and Irish book auctions: September 14-October 28, 2021
Previews
Dealers’ Diary
- Seeking to ride the interiors wave at the Battersea Fair
- The lure of Japan for Mortimer Menpes
- Matchbook making at Sims Reed
- 5 Questions: Ethnographic art dealer Kenn Mackay
- Remembering the glyphic arts
- The web shop window: French still life by Jules Cavaillès
International
- Asian art auctions busy as ever
- Five-piece altar garniture became a family fixture
- Parcel gilt dish is headline lot of Christie’s Chinese sale
- Something to write home about
- Star of a snuff bottle collection
- Porcelain treats in store at Doyle
- Take the Left Bank ceramics trail
- Majolica mania at Paris gallery
- Hats off at Sotheby's to ‘Les Arts sous influence Napoleon’
Fairs, Markets & Centres
- Peterborough antiques festival in demand with buyers and sellers
- Two goes into one with fairs at Hilton Olympia in Kensington
- Hingham grows to Easton venue
- Popping up for vintage in Islington
Letters
Backpage
- Going, going… no, just starting
- SAD occasion full of smiles and golf fun
- Polly gone – but not forgotten