antiques trade THE A RT M AR KET W EEKLY antiquestradegazette.com Reach a unique audience of buyers, collectors and market professionals... Media Pack 2019 PRINT DIGITAL More than More than 25,000 readers 80,000 unique every week users a month ...and broaden your campaign to reach more than 1 million users a month on our sister site: thesaleroom.com The home of art & antiques auctions The authority of the art and antiques trade 1 antiques trade PRINT THE A RT M AR KET W EEKLY Welcome to Antiques Trade Gazette The Art Market Weekly Whether you buy, sell or merely ISSUE 2380 | antiquestradegazette.com | 23 February 2019 | UK £4.99 | USA $7.95 | Europe €5.50 Coins & Medals Annual in-depth antiques trade review of London’s observe and enjoy the art, antiques and numismatics auctions pages 14-20 vintage markets, Antiques Trade Gazette “Fantastic THE ART M ARKET WEEKLY is the must-read weekly newspaper. A Victorian who’s who publication by Frances Allitt Oscar Wilde is among the famous faces in this huge work on sale from a family collection for - the antiques the first time A 19th century masterpiece by William Powell Frith (1819- 1909) that serves as a who’s who of influential Victorians is on offer from a new St James’s gallery for £10m. The Private View at the Royal dealer’s bible” Academy, 1881, is the last of Frith’s great panoramas (which include The Derby Day and Rail- way Station) and comes fresh to the market after 135 years in the Every issue is packed with breaking news, exclusive same family collection. Writers Oscar Wilde and UK dealer, subscriber Anthony Trollope, actress Ellen Terry, Prime Minister William Gladstone and artists information and market intelligence to ensure our Frederic Lord Leighton and John Everett Millais are among for more than 8 years, the eminent faces, who are readers are always one step ahead. 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ISSUE 2368 | antiquestradegazette.com | 24 November 2018 | UK £3.95 | USA $7.95 | Europe €5.50 Militaria antiques trade 'I found my father's Great War pocket watch online' – and an Armistice special pages 6 & 20-27 THE ART M ARKET WEEKLY Noelle McElhatton Late Renaissance novelty combines craftsmanship How to with ingenuity This silver-gilt trinkspiel with marks for the celebrated Augs- burg workshop of Hans Maulbrunner c.1614-16 is the Editor-at-large, Antiques Trade Gazette turn water earliest known of its type. It plays a trick on guests by appearing to turn water into wine. But unlike the wedding feast at Cana that inspired it, into wine there are no miracles, only hydraulics and some impres- sive goldsmithing. Pouring water into the top puts pressure on wine already concealed in a cylinder within the upper reservoir causing it to reach an invisible overflow. It sold toward the top end of its estimate at €175,000 (£159,000) at Sotheby’s Paris at its November 13 multi-disci- pline sale titled Excellence. The working method was highlighted in a short video released by the auction house on YouTube before the sale. For the full story see page 10 £1.7m for London Art Week Early electric the 'Chinese dealers deliver clocks strike Mona Lisa' in stories from 5000 right note at Salisbury years of history auction page 7 Antiques Trade Gazette’s editorial team has page 48 page 30 FREDERIC GOT GALLERY CHARON KRANSEN ARTS A special section of international contemporary art & design galleries at the Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antique Show. more than 200 years of experience covering FEBRUARY 13-19, 2019 PALM BEACH COUNTY CONVENTION CENTER the art and antiques market, bringing its readers A PALM BEACH SHOW GROUP EVENT | PALMBEACHSHOW.COM/CONTEMPORARY-FOCUS 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●KE T W EEKLY ● ● professionals 30% of readers 22% of readers 42% of readers ● ● ● ● Including: Offline buyers: more Interested in a wide 73% buy in both the UK auctioneers, than half do not spend range of art and and other countries fair organisers, valuers, on thesaleroom.com antiques – furniture, ● museum workers, ceramics, pictures, clocks, ● 81% say restorers, insurers silver, books, collectables, 85% say the advertising advertising is a vital part financiers, shippers… jewellery, etc. is a vital part of ATG of 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 85% of ATG readers make the majority of their is a 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 Wine & Whisky Dealers’ Diary News Place a max bid before the auction or bid to Gabriel Berner at [email protected] live for these items on thesaleroom.com Roadshow garage sale find brings Up to £500 £501 - £2000 £2001 - £5000 £5001 - £30,000 Drinking the profits – a brief history of wine antiques NEC’s aristocratic credentials $1.7m during New York Asia Week Recalling the Marchioness of Townsend and Lady Stanhope at the Antiques for Everyone fair Mounted in a modern winged gold brooch, This bronze death mask of the executed Irish Republican This Lowestoft pug goes under the hammer as part of Keys’ Adam Partridge will offer this engraved pin head by the micro-artist Graham under $100. Sotheby’s said that year [1746] and concluded on this ancient Egyptian scarab beetle has and rebel leader Robert Emmet (1778-1803) was made three-day sale on in Aylsham on March 27-29. The piece, Short (b.1946) as part of its April 4 sale in Macclesfield. by Roland Arkell by Roland Arkell the item was acquired from the the 15th day of the second been dated to the Middle Kingdom and late from the original taken by the portrait miniaturist and sponged in manganese with a blue collar and It bears the words of American-Romanian writer and Holocaust survivor Elie A cross-section of typical wine and drinking related antiques & Frances Allitt 1 3 estate of Trezevant Branam month’. With a long collecting Second Intermediate Period (c.1950-1600BC). antiques dealer James Petrie (d.1819). Petrie is said to eyes, belongs to a relatively small group Wiesel: Hope is like peace It is not a gift from god – It is A gift only we can give 4 sold at auction in March. 5 by Frances Allitt Winfrey (1912-1999) in Kirk- history in the West (it was The property of an English collector acquired have inveigled his way into Kilmainham Jail in Dublin of animal models produced by the Suffolk One another. Housed in its own bespoke LED viewing unit, it will be offered with Pouring wine at the table from 1. Pair of Regency cut-glass triple ring decanters and stoppers, 10in (25cm) A 9th century gilt bronze figure wood, Missouri, in 1999. acquired by newspaper propri- prior to 1968, it is estimated at £250-450 in a sale of shortly after Emmet’s execution. porcelain factory in the late 18th century. an estimate of £12,000-15,000. a standardised machine-made high – £280 at Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh, March 20. 2 bought at a Missouri garage The 6½in (16cm) bronze of etor Henry Yates Thompson in antiquities and tribal art at Chiswick Auctions on April 9. The mask is estimated at €800-1,200 in Whyte’s Eclectic Estimate £2000-2500. Birmingham-born Short attracted the national gaze bottle is a relatively new custom. Two objects recalling aristocratic sale and later appraised on Guanyin, dated to the end of 1882 from Bernard Quaritch), chiswickauctions.co.uk* Collector auction on April 6 in Dublin. keysauctions.co.uk* in 2012 when he unveiled a razor’s edge inscribed with For centuries before the Victorian 2. An Art Deco electroplated and walnut cocktail stand fitted with a shaker, ladies of the past feature at the next PBS’ Antiques Roadshow was the the Tang era (618-90) or the it made five times its mid esti- whytes.ie the words Nothing is Impossible, a project that took nine- era, wine was typically bought and jigger, funnel, spoon, corkscrew, bottle opener and five (of six) cocktail Art & Antiques for Everyone fair.