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Genuine Antiques from Trusted Dealers 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 2496 | antiquestradegazette.com | 12 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 ‘Elegy’ from 1836 The stern face, luxurious reveals original moustache and pointing finger are instantly familiar – but the John Constable message below Kitchener’s intense gaze not so. watercolours Instead of the famous Wants you text on the classic First by Alex Capon World War recruiting poster, the example offered at Dorset Discovered lying unrecognised on a auction house Onslows on bookcase in a Sussex cottage, a unique May 28 was subtly different: edition of Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written Your country needs you. Also in a Country Churchyard will be offered confusing was the title London at Gorringe’s this month with a Opinion above Kitchener rather £100,000-150,000 estimate. Not only is the 1836 first illustrated than Britons in suitably chunky edition of the great poem a significant rarity red lettering. in itself (very few, if any, copies have This was the first news seemingly emerged at auction in the last 40 stand version created by Alfred years), this particular quarto copy has 17 Leete as an advert for the original drawings and watercolours, each September 5, 1914, edition of bound in directly before the applicable London Opinion magazine, later adapted to the now much more Continued on page 4 well-known poster version. Continued on page 6 Ming dish sets Right: First World War Kitchener house record image from the edition of The London Opinion by Laura Chesters magazine of Pick September 5, Copenhagen auction house Bruun of the 1914 – £11,000 Rasmussen achieved a house record with at Onslows. the sale of an early Ming porcelain dish. week Hammered down at Dkr35.5m (£4.1m) on June 2, it also became the most expensive piece of Asian decorative art ever sold in Scandinavia. The Chinese buyer will pay Dkr46.15m (£5.32m) including 24% buyer’s The Kitchener call to arms that premium and VAT. inspired a classic poster design Estimate was Dkr200,000–300,000. Continued on page 4 genuine antiques from trusted dealers Simply point your phone camera to view website Follow us on Twitter Antiques Trade Gazette is published and originated by Metropress Ltd, Contents@ATG_Editorial Issue 2496 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 Digital & Art Market Editor Alex Capon Battle of Britain medals soar to six figures Reporter Frances Allitt Marketing Manager Beverley Marshall Renaissance roundel blocked from export for now Print & ProduCtion Director Justin Massie-Taylor SUBSCRIPTIONS ENQUIRIES News Digest page 6-7 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 [email protected] Super Sèvres in sales trio page 10-14 AUCTION ADVERTISING Charlotte Scott-Smith +44 (0)20 3725 5602 ART MARKET [email protected] Indian ornithological works fly high page 16-17 Sèvres selection NON-AUCTION & FAIRS AND MARKETS ADVERTISING BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER French porcelain picks from Dan Connor +44 (0)20 3725 5605 Estimate-busters in Oxford saleroom page 20-21 three different salerooms [email protected] page 10 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 Petworth fair ready to roll page 26-28 [email protected] CALENDAR CONTROLLER Rachel Fellman +44 (0)20 3725 5606 International Events page 30-41 [email protected] ATG PRODUCTION +44 (0)20 3725 5620 Muireann Grealy +44 (0)20 3725 5623 UK Auction Calendar page 44-50 SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES This product is Fairs, Markets & Centres produced from sustainably managed Wetherby: a town buzzing with activity page 53-55 forests and controlled It’s good to talk sources. Dealers look forward to meeting It can be recycled. recycle A Lawyer Writes page 58 the public in person as Petworth Antiques Trade Gazette, Harlequin Building, fair prepares to welcome visitors 65 Southwark Street, Letters & Obituary page 59 page 26 London SE1 0HR +44 (0)20 3725 5500 antiquestradegazette.com Printed by Buxton Press Ltd SK17 6AE JEWELLERY & WATCHES FRIDAY 18TH JUNE 11AM For viewing dates and times, please visit our website https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/kingham-and-orme Live Kinghams Auctioneers Ltd, 10-12 Cotswold Business Village, London Road, Moreton-in-Marsh GL56 0JQ. 01608 695695 [email protected] www.kinghamsauctioneers.com 2 | 12 June 2021 antiquestradegazette.com PAGE 002 2496.indd 1 04/06/2021 13:54:25 How can you avoid losing sales under AML? While the 5th Anti-Money Laundering Directive requires all Art Market Participants to train staff, define Policies, Controls and Procedures and carry out Customer Due Diligence prior to concluding a sale, these ‘new rules of engagement’ are fast overshadowed by the prospect that the inevitable friction regulation introduces could see sales lost at a time when they are more important than ever. ith Customer Due Diligence requiring 59.7 seconds for art buyers internationally - ranging participation from both the Gallery and from private clients, companies, museums and trusts its clients, it should come as no surprise - to provide information to Art Market Participants that the simple act of asking clients for throughout the UK, US, EU and Switzerland using the Winformation remains one of the biggest concerns an Art platform. Business must reconcile as it manages client experience, privacy and service conducted under the shadow of With the arcarta platform, Art Market Participants regulation. can request and receive sensitive client information over a secure, encrypted connection, while a range Indeed, unlike most any other regulated sector, art is an of workflows and processes offer immediate data- entirely non-essential, emotional purchase and requires discipline for the art business and its clients. a gallery to navigate a delicate sales process. While the art business wants to avoid offending a client with whom The transposition of the 5th Anti-Money Laundering it may have dealt for many years, the client is often Directive into national law requires all Art Market concerned about how their information will be stored and Participants to train staff, define Policies, Controls and kept secure and the reasoning behind the request. Procedures and carry out Customer Due Diligence prior to concluding a sale. The 10th of June formally marks With all Art Market Participants required to process the beginning of the UK Art Market moving into the information ranging from Passports, Driving Licenses, regulated sector. Bank statements and Utility Bills prior to undertaking Customer Due Diligence, most any art business is lacking Join us on Friday 11th June at 4pm BST, 11am EDT to in suitable systems to ensure highly-sensitive client learn how you can undertake Customer Due Diligence information is processed in a manner cognisant with in a way that reduces friction for you and your clients. GDPR and not stored on gallery computers, attached to email threads and saved in computer folders. Visit arcarta.com/atg to register. At arcarta, we understand keeping client participation to a minimum is key. During 2020, it took an average of arcarta.com/atg | +44 161 850 7571 PAGE 003 2496.indd 1 03/06/2021 14:17:42 News Original Constable illustrations found Continued from front page Left: the editor’s personal copy of Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, stanza to which they relate. bound with 17 original drawings including These works include three three by John Constable. It is estimated at watercolours by John Constable £100,000-150,000 by Gorringe’s. no less, and others by artists such as Charles Landseer, Peter Right: one of the Constable watercolours, De Wint and Richard Westall. measuring 4¾ x 6¾in (12 x 17cm) bound These influential names into the book. This illustration refers to the were commissioned for the eleventh stanza Can storied urn or animated illustrated edition of Gray’s bust / Back to its mansion call the fleeting Elegy by the prominent Regency breath?… bookseller, librarian and bibliographer John Martin. The book was published by legacy and remembrance. hand-written letters which will Rogers to Martin but dates John Van Voorst, London, and Spotted during a routine accompany the lot. One letter from two years later. dedicated to and probably valuation visit, this was the dated 1835 is from Constable to The lot will be offered at funded by the poet and banker editor John Martin’s personal Martin and includes a sketch of Gorringe’s sale in Lewes on Samuel Rogers. copy. It is believed that the the churchyard at Stoke Poges, June 29. It featured 33 wood book was handed down through Buckinghamshire (where the engravings in all which aimed the vendor’s family, although it grave of Gray’s much-loved Right: the letter from John to capture the vivid imagery of is unclear how they acquired it.
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