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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 2498 | antiquestradegazette.com | 26 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) THE ART M ARKET WEEKLY [email protected] +44 (0)20 7242 7624 www.koopman.art Exhibition history adds Summer Special Summer of lustre to Pilkington vase Art& Antiques A new record for the Pilkington’s Lancastrian factory was set by Moreton-in-Marsh firm Kinghams when the Anthony J Cross collection of art pottery was sold on June 11-12. The 468-lot group, assembled over half a century, included some exceptional lustre wares, particularly those made by the Salford factory. It was Cross who wrote the factory monograph Imagined Interiors at Arthur Swallow Fairs’ Beale Park event Pilkington’s Royal Lancastrian Pottery and Tiles, published in 1980 alongside a landmark exhibition Sotheby’s / ArtDigital Studio held by Richard Dennis. The months of July and August used to be Our special listings include hundreds of fairs the time to slow down and take a break. Not Now is the time to check the dates for your and auctions taking place over the next two this year. The art and antiques world is ready diary to ensure you take advantage of all the months in the UK and around the world along for one of its busiest summers ever as buyers opportunities coming up this summer. High-lustre finishes were produced at with extended previews of noteworthy lots and gear up for a spending spree. key dealer selling exhibitions. Pilkington’s for a relatively short period from Dealers’ Diary page 32-34 UK Fairs Calendar page 55-61 UK Previews page 42-46 International Previews 1906, the year George Forsyth (1879-1952), the page 62-63 Art Market page 48-51 International Auction Calendar page 64-68 Books page 52-53 International Fairs Calendar former art director at the Minton Hollins tileworks, page 69 Fairs & Markets page 54 joined the company. SUPPLEMENT Where to go and what to buy this summer The most important piece in the auction was a 21in (53cm high) exhibition vase dating from 1908. Unusually it is moulded in relief with St Inside this week’s issue we present a George on horseback lancing a dragon with special section dedicated to events a maiden to the side. The lustre decoration, taking place this summer. completed by factory decorator Gordon Forsyth We have extended our UK fairs and in an exuberant bronze and red iridescent glaze, markets calendar to cover the whole includes the inscription St George for England. of July and August, while Dealers’ Diary Among the largest pieces ever made by the previews London Art Week and a range of factory and one of just a handful to include relief selling exhibitions. moulded swell as painted decoration, it was Auction houses will also be busy exhibited at the 1908 Franco-British Exhibition in catering for pent-up demand from buyers London to much admiration. Only two examples – we provide enhanced previews across are known to have been produced – the other art, antiques, books and more from both Continued on page 8 the UK and around the world. We also have special international auctions and fairs listings. Left: the 1908 Pilkington’s Lancastrian Pick Wherever you choose to visit we wish exhibition vase sold by Kinghams as part you a successful – and safe – summer. of the Anthony Cross collection for a of the record £75,000. week See pages 31-69 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 2498 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 Digital & Art Market Editor Alex Capon Reporter Frances Allitt Marketing Manager Beverley Marshall Print & ProduCtion Director Justin Massie-Taylor In The News page 4 Piping hot at auction SUBSCRIPTIONS ENQUIRIES Polly Stevens +44 (0)20 3725 5507 Brontë library auction put on hold to give Ornate Continental and Chinese [email protected] institutions more time to fundraise examples light up West Sussex EDITORIAL +44 (0)20 3725 5520 Ethiopian works withdrawn from Dorset sale 600-strong selection [email protected] page 13 ADVERTISING +44 (0)20 3725 5604 News Digest page 8-9 [email protected] Includes Bid Barometer AUCTION ADVERTISING Charlotte Scott-Smith +44 (0)20 3725 5602 [email protected] Auction Reports NON-AUCTION & FAIRS AND MARKETS ADVERTISING HAMMER HIGHLIGHTS Dan Connor +44 (0)20 3725 5605 [email protected] Polymath’s own sculptures on offer page 12-13 CLASSIFIED BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER Rebecca Bridges +44 (0)20 3725 5604 [email protected] Exceptional books of hours page 16-17 INTERNATIONAL ADVERTISING Susan Glinska +44 (0)20 3725 5607 [email protected] Previews page 18 Francine Libessart +44 (0)20 3725 5613 [email protected] CALENDAR CONTROLLER Feature - North America Rachel Fellman +44 (0)20 3725 5606 [email protected] Looking ahead to auction highlights for sale in ATG PRODUCTION +44 (0)20 3725 5620 Muireann Grealy +44 (0)20 3725 5623 stateside salerooms page 22-29 Declaration of Independence SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES This product is Summer of Art & Antiques discovered in Scotland produced from sustainably managed Spotlight on a bright and busy period for Copy of US landmark document forests and controlled sources. auctions, dealer shows and fairs page 31-69 found in the UK heads back across It can be recycled. recycle the Atlantic for sale Antiques Trade Gazette, page 24-25 UK Auction Calendar page 76-82 Harlequin Building, 65 Southwark Street, London SE1 0HR Letters & Obituary page 83 +44 (0)20 3725 5500 antiquestradegazette.com Printed by Buxton Press Ltd SK17 6AE Get your Morning Briefing ANTIQUES, INTERIORS & OUTSIDE EFFECTS from Antiques Trade Gazette Saturday 26th June at 10am If you want to keep on top of the latest news in the art Viewing: and antiques world, signing up to Antiques Trade Gazette’s Thursday 24th 1pm-5pm Friday 25th 10am-6pm Morning Briefing email is a must. Limited room bidders Very large mahogany country house library bookcase from Mawley Hall, Cleobury Mortimer, length: 4.6 metres School Lane, Middle Littleton, near Evesham, Worcestershire WR11 8LN Sign up today for FREE and stay one step ahead Email: [email protected] Tel: 01386 244 379 or 833 124 www.littletonauctions.com antiquestradegazette.com/morningbriefing 2 | 26 June 2021 antiquestradegazette.com PAGE 002 2498.indd 1 18/06/2021 14:45:15 WWAdFREE ATG 244x335mm.qxp_Layout 1 15/06/2021 16:17 Page 1 FURNITURE, WORKS OF ART & CLOCKS 6TH & 7TH JULY 2021 AT 10.00AM A Charles II lignum vitae wassail bowl A George II Irish mahogany dining table A selection of French lighting, clocks A pair of tortoise coffee tables by and cover, the lid with an enamel ‘print’ Provenance: The Edward CroftMurray and furniture. Anthony Redmile with the Coat of Arms of Charles II CBE Collection. One of ninetyseven Provenance: The Gordon Quance Collection Provenance: From the family collections of Estimate £6,0008,000* lots in the sale Captain George Lionel Jameson OBE Estimate £4,0006,000* Estimate £3,0005,000* Viewing by appointment only ENQUIRIES Mark YuanRichards | +44 (0)1722 411854 | [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 2498.indd 2 17/06/2021 14:18:21 News Brontë sale on hold as museums seek funds by Laura Chesters concerns this did not give them Museum, Abbotsford, the interests and their family’s sufficient time to prepare a bid Robert Burns Birthplace excellent care of this material to acquire some or all of the Museum, Brotherton Library for over a century.” Sotheby’s has delayed the sale collection. and Jane Austen’s House, Rebecca Yorke, interim of a library collection related to The more than 500 among others. director of the Brontë Society, the Brontë family to give a manuscripts, first editions and The FNL said a private said: “We are very grateful that chance for institutions to raise letters from the Honresfield library of English literature of Sotheby’s and the vendors have funds to buy it. Library were originally put such significance “has not been delayed the auction and are The Friends of the National together by Arthur Bell placed on the open market for proud to be working with the Libraries (FNL) launched an Nicholls, the widower of many decades, or is ever likely FNL and other partners on a appeal and is in discussion with Charlotte Brontë. They were Above: among the contents of to appear again”. fundraising campaign to private philanthropists and later acquired by Rochdale mill the library is this Emily and Anne Dr Gabriel Heaton, acquire this unique collection sources of public funds to raise owners Alfred and William Brontë manuscript birthday note Sotheby’s English literature for the nation.” the purchase price of £15m for Law, who lived at Honresfield with sketches by Emily (1841).