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antiques trade THE A RT M AR KET W EEKLY antiquestradegazette.com Media Pack 2018 Reach a unique audience of buyers, collectors and market professionals... PRINT DIGITAL 30,000 readers 55,000 unique every week users a month ...and broaden your campaign to reach more than 1 million users on our sister site: www.the-saleroom.com 1 The authority of the art and antiques trade antiques trade PRINT THE A RT M AR KET W EEKLY Welcome to Antiques Trade Gazette The Art Market Weekly ISSUE 2292 | antiquestradegazette.com | 20 May 2017 | UK £3.95 | USA $7.95 | Europe €5.50 Whether you buy, sell or merely AMERICAN BEAUTIES Stand-out lots from upcoming US auctions, page 52-53 CAUGHLEY CLASSIC Ceramics from niche factory appeal to new observe and enjoy the art, collectors Page 18 antiques and vintage markets, Dreweatts to Antiques Trade Gazette is the “It’s the bible of be owner-run, the trade” says Mark Law must-read weekly newspaper. New owner of auction house plans to run business day-to-day by Roland Arkell coming months.” – UK dealer, subscriber & Laura Chesters As part of the transaction, the pair’s investment vehicle The new boss of Dreweatts says Millicent Holdings Limited (set he sees “huge potential” for the up in April) has also acquired saleroom as it reverts to owner- the brand of dealership Mallett, management focused on its which “will continue to be run for more than 10 years, headquarters in Newbury. alongside Dreweatts”. Former auctioneer and The deal does not include the ceramics specialist Mark Law Mallett inventory, the group’s and investor Gavin Alexander interest in Masterpiece London or bought the firm last week after Bloomsbury Auctions. striking a cut-price deal with the Law, who worked at Drewe- Every issue is packed with breaking news, exclusive spends £500,000 to Stanley Gibbons Group. atts for 16 years prior to 2000, Law and Alexander will is the owner of London ceram- manage the firm on a day-to- ics dealership Albert Amor. day basis. In a brief statement to He was part of a team that ATG Mark Law said: “We plan bought Partridge Fine Art in a information and market intelligence to ensure our readers to return the business to an £14m deal in 2005. However £1,000,000 a year on owner-run operation, as it was four years later the firm was when I left [in 2000]. placed into administration. “With the closure of Chris- Of the senior figures formerly tie’s South Kensington, and in charge of Gibbons’ interiors are always one step ahead. other changes in the market, division, George Bailey, former there is huge potential for a chairman of Dreweatts & Dream consignment country house saleroom an Bloomsbury, is understood to art and antiques hour from London. have resigned two months ago Major saleroom record establishes new “Gavin and I bring with us a while James Harvey will remain number of interesting projects, with the Gibbons group. auction market for Mod Brit painter – page 11 which will be announced in the See analysis page 6 ATG, as many of them fondly call it, is also a visual Auction Calendar the original and most authoritative listing of UK sales – page 60-68 treat with great photography of wonderful objects to accompany the insight my team brings them each week in print and daily online. 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Noelle McElhatton Editor, Antiques Trade Gazette Antiques Trade Gazette’s editorial team has more than 200 years of experience covering the art and antiques market, bringing its readers unrivalled insight every week. 2 3 antiques trade PRINT THE A RT M AR KET W EEKLY Meet our readers: Together they spend more than £1.8bn a year on art and antiques antiCollectorsques trade Private buyers Dealers Market ● ● ● THE A RT M AR KET W EEKLY professionals 30% of readers 22% of readers 42% of readers ● ● ● ● Including: auctioneers, Offline buyers: more Interested in a wide 73% buy in both the UK fair organisers, valuers, than half do not spend range of art and and other countries museum workers, on thesaleroom.com antiques – furniture, restorers, insurers ● ceramics, pictures, clocks, financiers, shippers… ● 81% say silver, books, collectables, 85% say the advertising advertising is a vital part of jewellery, etc. is a vital part of ATG their ATG 4 5 antiques trade PRINT THE A RT M AR KET W EEKLY Affluent and smart, our readers... £62,000 …are prolific spenders …have decades of experience Each reader spends on average 96% of readers £62,000 a year on art and antiques are over 45 …read your advertising …buy more offline 81% of print readers say the advertising is a 85% of ATG readers make the majority of their vital part of the newspaper purchases offline – in person or over the phone …buy off the page …spend at home & abroad They see it in the newspaper, 98% of readers acquire items in the UK they enquire, view and buy 54% buy outside the UK 6 7 antiques trade PRINT THE A RT M AR KET W EEKLY In each issue News Previews Special Features Dealer’s Diary Exclusive stories and industry data Our pick of items for sale this week Expert reviews of market trends What dealers are buying and selling Previews Our weekly selection from salerooms and dealerships * BID LIVE AT thesaleroom.com Send your previews three weeks in advance of sale Feature Silver Dealers’ Diary News Place an autobid before the auction begins or to Gabriel Berner at [email protected] bid live for these items on thesaleroom.com Left: based on the second labour of Hercules, this silver-gilt Ruff black and white work adds colour to St James’s London says no to hallmarking overseas Up to £500 £501 - £2000 £2001 - £5000 £5001 - £30,000 candelabrum centrepiece is one Fair highlights Editor’s of the stars at Christie's on March Vagabond puts down fresh roots Speaking at the Fakes and Thailand and the Far East. Brexit and called “it an abso- 22-23. It is estimated comment at £400,000- by Laura Chesters Forgeries seminar at Gold- Asked by ATG to comment, lute disaster”. Mary Cooke Dickenson Dealer’s search for a second home is over for now as village base joins a barn already open 600,000. This George III bread basket (right) by Benjamin and Godalming dealer Alastair Dickenson Fine Silver has smiths’ Hall last week in commercial director at Bir- He said it would effect where Delivery: all to play for Over 100 pieces of ceramics by the Linthorpe Art Pottery in This Art Nouveau Foley Intarsio pottery mantel A small offering of Russian imperial antiques stars in Chiswick Auctions’ Books and Manuscripts sale on James Smith is priced at £12,950 by Mary Cooke Antiques recently acquired this early electrotype cup and stand The London Assay Office has London, Organ added: “We mingham Assay Office global companies decide to On Twitter last week, Middlesbrough will feature in Thomas Watson’s March 21 clock was designed by the Arts & Crafts ceramacist Tennants’ Spring Fine Art Sale on March 24-25 in Leyburn, March 22 features an example of the 1733, first printed at BADA 2017, held at the Duke of York Square, Chelsea, made by Elkington, Mason and Co, c.1845. Chased with spoken out against moves to would never entertain the idea Nyasha Pitt said: “We operate have their items hallmarked auctioneer and TV pundit sale in Darlington, County Durham. Frederick Rhead (1880-1942). North Yorkshire. facsimile of the Magna Carta of 1215. On vellum and with from March 15-24. scenes from Homer, it copies an original discovered at Below: stone cherub offered for allow UK hallmarks to be here. If we were to ever con- the Mumbai sub-office with with some of the largest global Paul Laidlaw vented about a Much of the collection is attributed to Christopher Measuring 12in (30cm) high, it is decorated with This pair of wine glasses is from the service made for the text flanked by 25 hand-coloured armorial shields of Report by Frances Allitt Dresser (1834-1904) who was art superintendent at a pair of maidens labelled Dies and Nox, a river Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich, son of Nicholas I. Each the barons, it was engraved by John Pine after one of two Silver Well marked to the foot for 1809 (the first of the Smith Pompeii and now in the Naples Museum. £295 at Vagabond Antiques. stamped overseas. sider hallmarking overseas it the same rules, regulations, jewellery firms preparing to high quote for delivery that brothers’ brief four-year partnership), the 50oz basket The signature in Greek reads Benjamin Schlick created A public consultation into would be with a different mark processes, external accredita- switch from London to loca- far exceeded the cost of the Linthorpe between 1879 and 1882. The pottery closed after a landscape, rising sun and the inscription carpe diem is engraved with a crowned monogram and together are guided at £3000-5000. original copies owned by Sir Robert Cotton (now in the It is one week since doors opened assumes an unusual design combining fruiting vines with it – a reference to a Danish-born antiquarian who was the use of British hallmarks altogether, not the leopard.” tion and controls as we do in tions such as the Netherlands, object he was buying. decade in 1889.