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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 2494 | antiquestradegazette.com | 29 May 2021 | UK £4.99 | USA $7.95 | Europe €5.50 S E E R 50years D koopman rare art 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 Maastricht fair ‘online only’ for 2021 by Laura Chesters TEFAF Maastricht 2021 has been cancelled due to the ongoing effects of the coronavirus pandemic. The international art and antiques fair had been moved from March to September this year but the decision has now been taken to cancel the event. In a statement the organisers said: “After careful consideration of current global circumstances, The A gothic ivory table casket c.1330 sold European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF) has for £1.2m at Lyon & Turnbull on May 20. made the decision to cancel the in-person component of TEFAF Maastricht 2021.” TEFAF Online 2021, will run from September A glory of the chivalric age 9-13 instead of the physical event. Continued on page 4 The Five Centuries sale at Lyon & Turnbull in Edinburgh relate to the famous medieval romance Tristan and Isolde on May 20 included a sensational example of medieval and the Arthurian legend Queste del saint grail. art – a 14th century French gothic ivory casket or coffret. To the lid (pictured left) is a scene of ‘wild men’ Ten minutes of bidding that began at the top estimate of fighting to conquer a castle (and again defeated and in Art Market Participants £50,000 estimate ended at £1.2m. chains on the back panel), a popular motif in medieval A glory of the chivalric age, this is one of only nine imagery akin to the winning of a lady’s heart. The brass must register by June 10 complete secular ivory coffrets known. Probably made brackets, straps and handle are later additions. in Paris c.1330, it is intricately carved in bas-relief with The casket comes with an impeccable provenance HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has again narratives relating to courtly literature. On this coffret, from Tornaveen House in Aberdeenshire. Its history warned the art market that businesses must register that measures 10in (25cm) across, the panels appear to can be traced back to 1615 where it is described in the under the 5th Money Laundering Directive by next genealogy of the Bairds of Auchmedden in connection month. with Thomas Baird, a friar of a monastery in Besançon, Known as 5MLD, this regulation took effect on Burgundy. Family history suggested it had been made January 10, 2020. It requires auction houses, art (rather than acquired) by Thomas Baird leading the galleries and dealerships to conduct stricter due vendors to erroneously believe it was 17th century. diligence on buyers who purchase works of art The final price with a 25/20% premium was close to above a threshold of €10,000. £1.45m. It was L&T’s first seven-figure lot on UK soil The regulation requires Art Market Participants (and the most expensive work of art sold in Scotland) (AMPs) – anyone trading in or acting as an although in 2016 the firm went to Hong Kong to sell a intermediary in the trade of works of art that sell Xuande (1426-35) mark and period blue and white stem for above the threshold – to register with HMRC cup for £3.1m. Roland Arkell Continued on page 4 IN LINE GUIDELINESWITH COVID Antiques&CollectorsFair - is BACK! THURS 3 & FRI 4 JUNE THURS & FRI NEWARK & NOTTINGHAMSHIRE SHOWGROUND, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE NG24 2NY Thursday 9am - 6pm £20 (Thurs ticket allows entry on Fri) Friday 8am - 4pm £5 WE TAKE CARD PAYMENT AT THE GATE OR BUY TICKETS ONLINE 01636 702326 l www.iacf.co.uk [email protected] PAGE 001,004 2494.indd 1 21/05/2021 15:38:33 Follow us on Twitter Antiques Trade Gazette is published and originated by Metropress Ltd, Contents@ATG_Editorial Issue 2494 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 & 6 Digital & Art Market Editor Alex Capon A gold Supremacy medal comes to market Reporter Frances Allitt Marketing Manager Beverley Marshall Money Laundering Directive deadline looms Print & ProduCtion Director Justin Massie-Taylor SUBSCRIPTIONS ENQUIRIES News Digest page 8-9 Polly Stevens +44 (0)20 3725 5507 [email protected] Includes Bid Barometer EDITORIAL +44 (0)20 3725 5520 Auction Reports [email protected] ADVERTISING HAMMER HIGHLIGHTS +44 (0)20 3725 5604 Buried treasure [email protected] Dewlish House contents at Duke’s page 12-15 The Ryedale Hoard of AUCTION ADVERTISING ART MARKET Charlotte Scott-Smith +44 (0)20 3725 5602 Romano-British bronzes [email protected] The Jervis family collection page 16-18 brings £185,000 NON-AUCTION & FAIRS AND MARKETS page 8 ADVERTISING BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER Dan Connor +44 (0)20 3725 5605 The American experience page 20-21 [email protected] CLASSIFIED Rebecca Bridges +44 (0)20 3725 5604 Previews page 22-23 [email protected] INTERNATIONAL ADVERTISING Susan Glinska +44 (0)20 3725 5607 Dealers’ Diary [email protected] Francine Libessart +44 (0)20 3725 5613 Painting by moonlight page 24-26 [email protected] CALENDAR CONTROLLER Rachel Fellman +44 (0)20 3725 5606 Feature - Shipping & Delivery [email protected] ATG PRODUCTION +44 (0)20 3725 5620 A special report on the greener ways of moving Muireann Grealy +44 (0)20 3725 5623 art and antiques page 28-32 SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES This product is International Events produced from sustainably managed Including Auction Calendar page 34-49 forests and controlled sources. 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PAGE 003 2494.indd 2 20/05/2021 16:31:52 News Supreme medal for Tudor numismatists Deadline on 5MLD by Roland Arkell approaches A gold medal proclaiming Henry VIII as the Supreme Continued from front page Head of the Church of England – the only known example in and a pay a fee. private hands – comes for sale The deadline for registering in Switzerland next month. is June 10 this year. Estimated to bring In a statement, HMRC said SFr75,000, it is part of a group businesses should have started of six gold and silver meeting the requirements of Renaissance medals that come the money laundering by descent from the collection regulations since January 2020 of Martine, Comtesse de and that it “recommends that Béhague (1870-1939), one of you register as soon as possible the most important French art so that they can provide a more collectors, numismatists and Two views of a gold medal proclaiming Henry VIII as the Supreme Head of the Church of England estimated effective service for you”. benefactors of the early 20th to bring SFr75,000 at Lugdunum in Solothurn on June 9. century. Criminal prosecution The consignor to Lugdunum Designed by chief engraver original forms of the Old and to favoured courtiers or as HMRC said it can take various in Solothurn on June 9 will Henry Bayse (or Basse), it New Testaments, that diplomatic gifts. This specimen measures from warning letters donate the proceeds towards shows a bust portrait of the underpinned the reformation has been drilled for use as a to criminal prosecution if the restoration of Notre Dame king and an inscription in in Europe.