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To print, your print settings should be ‘fit to page size’ or ‘fit to printable area’ or similar. Problems? See our guide: https://atg.news/2zaGmwp 7 1 -2 0 2 1 9 1 ISSUE 2495 | antiquestradegazette.com | 5 June 2021 | UK £4.99 | USA $7.95 | Europe €5.50 S E E R 50years D V A I R N T antiques trade G T H E KOOPMAN (see Client Templates for issue versions) [email protected] +44 (0)20 7242 7624 THE ART M ARKET WEEKLY www.koopman.art Museum hopes to buy Brontë manuscripts by Laura Chesters The Brontë museum hopes to raise funds to buy rare manuscripts from a rediscovered library collection coming up for sale at Sotheby’s. More than 500 manuscripts, first editions and letters from the Honresfield Library will be offered across three auctions, with the first to run online on July 2-13. The collection was originally put together by Arthur Bell Nicholls, the widower of Charlotte Brontë, and later acquired by Rochdale mill owners Alfred and William Law who lived at Honresfield House – 20 Continued on page 5 Infamous forgery comes to auction Plaques pull in devoted fans by Roland Arkell This rare pair of south Italian or Sicilian devotional depicting the Annunication and the Nativity. They were The Oath of a Freeman, one of the most plaques (capezzali) sold for £26,000 (plus 25% buyer’s probably made in one of the carving workshops in the infamous forgeries in US history, heads to premium) at Matthew Barton of Olympia Auctions in west coastal town of Trapani during the mid to late 17th century auction at Heritage this month. It comes for London on May 25. They were secured by one of several using the locally harvested coral. sale from Justin Schiller, the antiquarian continental European bidders well above the estimate of The engraved gilt metal and enamel frames are bookseller who in 1985 attempted to broker £8000-12,000. characteristic of these pieces, the panel verso concealing its sale for $1.5m. The Italian word ‘capezzale’ literally means a headboard, the unsightly wax and pitch glue that holds the coral, a The Oath, a pledge of loyalty and duty but also refers to the devotional shrines that were hung method of adhesion termed ‘retroincastro’. By the end demanded of all new members of the above a bed. These 5½in (14cm) plaques, which carried of the 18th century the coral reefs in the region had Massachusetts Bay Colony, is considered to a provenance to St Mary’s Bourne Street, the Anglican been thoroughly depleted and the industry at Trapani be the oldest printed document in English church near Sloane Square in London, were a genuine pair disappeared. Roland Arkell Continued on page 4 Old Masters at shipping art and antiques • Bespoke secure packing • Door-to-door worldwide delivery • Loss and damage warranty available • Customs and shipping documentation support e: [email protected] w: packsend.co.uk/art-shipping t: 0345 873 9990 Follow us on Twitter Antiques Trade Gazette is published and originated by Metropress Ltd, Contents@ATG_Editorial Issue 2495 trading as Auction Technology Group Ltd Read top stories every day on our website antiquestradegazette.com auctiontechnologygroup.com Find us on: Follow us on Twitter Chief Executive Officer John-Paul Savant Chief Operating Officer Richard Lewis @ATG_Editorial Find us on: Publishing Director Matt Ball Editor-at-Large Noelle McElhatton Deputy Editor, News Laura Chesters Deputy Editor, Features & Supplements Roland Arkell Commissioning Editor Anne Crane Chief Production Editor Tom Derbyshire In The News page 4-5 Digital & Art Market Editor Alex Capon Reporter Frances Allitt LAPADA fair cancelled for a second year Marketing Manager Beverley Marshall Concern over cultural goods rule change Print & ProduCtion Director Justin Massie-Taylor SUBSCRIPTIONS ENQUIRIES Music academy denies instrument ‘sell-off’ plan Polly Stevens +44 (0)20 3725 5507 [email protected] EDITORIAL News Digest page 8-9 +44 (0)20 3725 5520 Includes Bid Barometer [email protected] ADVERTISING Very grand designs +44 (0)20 3725 5604 Auction Reports [email protected] Auction house holds four AUCTION ADVERTISING HAMMER HIGHLIGHTS dedicated sales across two cities Charlotte Scott-Smith +44 (0)20 3725 5602 Four design sales in two cities page 12-14 page 12-13 [email protected] NON-AUCTION & FAIRS AND MARKETS ART MARKET ADVERTISING Dan Connor +44 (0)20 3725 5605 Munnings among a record total page 18-20 [email protected] BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER CLASSIFIED Rebecca Bridges +44 (0)20 3725 5604 Chaucer and Newton make it big page 22-23 [email protected] INTERNATIONAL ADVERTISING Susan Glinska +44 (0)20 3725 5607 Collector Interview page 26 [email protected] Francine Libessart +44 (0)20 3725 5613 [email protected] Previews page 28-29 CALENDAR CONTROLLER Rachel Fellman +44 (0)20 3725 5606 [email protected] Dealers’ Diary ATG PRODUCTION +44 (0)20 3725 5620 How John Craxton saw the light page 32-33 Muireann Grealy +44 (0)20 3725 5623 SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES International Events page 36-45 This product is produced from sustainably managed forests and controlled UK Auction Calendar page 48-54 sources. It can be recycled. recycle Flock around the clock Fairs, Markets & Centres Antiques Trade Gazette, Shepherds and the evocative Harlequin Building, Celebrating 30 years of Salvo page 57-59 65 Southwark Street, pre-war subjects of artist John London SE1 0HR Craxton in the showcase +44 (0)20 3725 5500 Letters & Obituary page 62-63 page 32 antiquestradegazette.com Printed by Buxton Press Ltd SK17 6AE Get your Morning Briefing from Antiques Trade Gazette If you want to keep on top of the latest news in the art and antiques world, signing up to Antiques Trade Gazette’s Morning Briefing email is a must. Free and delivered straight to your inbox on any device – mobile, tablet, laptop – the Gazette Morning Briefing keeps you informed with the latest news while at home and on the move. Sign up today for FREE and stay one step ahead antiquestradegazette.com/morningbriefing 2 | 5 June 2021 antiquestradegazette.com PAGE 002 2495.indd 1 28/05/2021 13:28:44 WWAdFREE Ceramics ATG 244x335mm bleed.qxp_Layout 1 21/05/2021 10:41 Page 1 ENGLISH & EUROPEAN CERAMICS & GLASS WEDNESDAY 16TH JUNE 2021 A large Bow whiteglazed figure of the actress Kitty Clive, A small waisted beaker or dram glass, c.1765, 7.9cm. A rare Böttger stoneware hexagonal teapot and cover, c.171015, c.1750, 25.3cm. Provenance: from the collection of the late Terence C. Woodfield. 15cm across. Estimate £1,5002,000* Estimate £2,5003,000* Provenance: from the collection of Lady Kate Davson, née Foster. Estimate £10,00015,000* A Staffordshire slipware owl jar and cover, c.16901710, A Chelsea hexagonal Fabledecorated teapot and cover, 23.8cm. c.175255, 18cm across. A rare Ralph Wood pearlware figure of John Milton, c.17901800, Estimate £5,0008,000* Provenance: from the collection of Lady Kate Davson, née Foster. 29.5cm. Estimate £6,0008,000* Estimate £1,0001,500* Viewing by appointment only ENQUIRIES Clare Durham | +44 (0)1722 424507 | [email protected] 5161 Castle Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP1 3SU www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk LIVE *Visit woolleyandwallis.co.uk/buying for additional charges on final hammer price PAGE 003 2495.indd 2 27/05/2021 12:31:04 News Concern over cultural goods rule change dealers and auction houses. UKBS does not oppose the Goods (EU 2019/880) in goods being exported to by Laura Chesters However, the manner of the revocation and acknowledged Great Britain, but not Northern Northern Ireland, whether repeal could have unforeseen that the regulation has been Ireland. This difference could destined for the EU or not, have The revocation of the European consequences, according to widely criticised for its create major challenges if the not been illegally exported from Union’s cultural goods heritage body, the UK National potential effects on what many UK is not well prepared, their country of origin, a check regulation in Great Britain Committee of the Blue Shield countries may recognise as UKBS has warned. that is not currently required at could leave Northern Ireland (UKBS). legally owned objects which Fionnuala Rogers, cultural UK borders. Ultimately, the UK exposed, according to cultural It has warned that the have no contribution to property lawyer and chair of is going to have to make some property experts. government is unprepared to terrorist financing. UKBS, said: “It is highly likely significant changes as a result of The UK government is in “handle the challenges of that the EU will want to ensure this regulation, despite the the process of revoking the EU maintaining distinct systems Impact assessment that Northern Ireland does not revocation.” regulation on the Import of for the import of cultural goods Instead, the organisation is become a gateway for cultural The UK government is due Cultural Goods. into different parts of the UK” urging government to plan for goods to enter the EU in to debate the issues after the This step has been widely and has “significantly the impact it will have. violation of the Regulation. recess in June. UKBS added welcomed by the art and underestimated the risks this As part of Brexit, on May 19 “Equivalent checks will need that it is “essential that the UK antiques trade due to the might pose to the increase of the UK began to repeal the EU to be carried out in Great government considers these complexity of the regulation illicit trafficking through Regulation on the Introduction Britain, and UK customs will matters during the and the onerous impact on Northern Ireland”.