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 ISSUE 2456 | antiquestradegazette.com | 29 August 2020 | UK £4.99 | USA $7.95 | Europe €5.50 koopman rare art antiques trade KOOPMAN (see Client Templates for issue versions) THE ART M ARKET WEEKLY [email protected] +44 (0)20 7242 7624 www.koopman.art Online antiques degree course is reinstated by Laura Chesters Only a handful of academic institutions offer antiques-related An antiques degree course run by the courses. Kingston University runs an University of Central Lancashire in MA in Art Market & Appraisal and West Preston has been reinstated. Dean College of Arts and Conservation The eMA Antiques qualification, focuses on courses in conservation and which is taught online by distance traditional art and craft practices, while learning, was suspended earlier this year The Northern School of Art in Hartlepool but is to return after lobbying. advertised a new design history course Jill Newsham, associate lecturer in earlier this year. antiques, said: “Formal education within The art and antiques valuation courses the antiques business is a vital thing and held for many years at Southampton Left: a gilt bronze ‘ship’s we need as many people as possible to University are much missed by the trade. pattern’ Napoleonic eagle know that the course is now open to According to data compiled by the of the First Empire, c.1804, students once again.” Higher Education Student Statistics sold for £40,000 (estimate The course has been running for 17 Agency, there was a 28.5% decrease in £20,000-£30,000) at Dix years and offers students, after the first first-year university students studying Noonan Webb’s sale of the year, the chance to specialise in a field of history of art in the UK over the decade Jack Webb collection on their choice. Newsham said the alumni from 2008-18. August 20. from the course include “collectors, To find out more about the dealers, auctioneers and curators alike”. eMA Antiques course email Students can study part time. [email protected] Webb’s eagle soars According to his family, this French imperial naval eagle was purchased by the dealer Jack Webb (1923-2019) from a ‘totter’ in the early 1970s over the counter at his shop in Camden Passage, The vendor at the time believed the gilt bronze Bonhams scales down Scots sales eagle to have been an embellishment from a church lectern. Bonhams is closing its Glasgow office The lease on the Glasgow office in More than 1000 bronze eagles were handed out by Napoleon at a great and has restructured its sales schedule Newton Mearns is coming to an end military gathering on the Champ de Mars in Paris on December 3, 1804 – 108 and specialists in Scotland. and will close in the new year. were given to the legions of the National Guard, 600 to infantry, artillery and The auction house’s sales of Homes However, Bonhams’ specialist there, special corps, 280 to cavalry regiments and between 40-50 of these larger and Interiors, Jewellery, Asian and Gordon Mcfarlan, will continue to visit 14in (35cm) models to the navy. Every French ship-of-the-line carried one but Sporting art in Scotland will cease, clients on the West Coast and across only one directly comparable piece is known: the named eagle of Le Tonnant in leaving just Scottish Art and whisky Scotland. the Musée de L’Empéri, Salon de Provence. sales remaining at its saleroom in The firm said “some colleagues will This piece, with visible old repairs and missing a nameplate, was one of Edinburgh. be leaving the company between now Webb’s most coveted possessions and it had never been offered publicly for sale It will continue to carry out and the end of the year”. until it appeared in an auction held by Dix Noonan Webb in London on August 20. valuations in these categories and items Bonhams’ final Home and Interiors The showpiece lot of the Webb militaria collection, it went to a private collector consigned will be offered in the relevant for £40,000 (plus 25% buyer’s premium). London sales. Continued on page 4 8 – 13 SEPTEMBER 2020 SAINT-GERMAIN DES-PRÉS, PARCOURS QUARTIER DES BEAUX-ARTS, PARIS INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR DES MONDES TRIBAL ART | ASIAN ART | ARCHAEOLOGY Follow us on Twitter Antiques Trade Gazette is published and originated by Metropress Ltd, Contents@ATG_Editorial Issue 2456 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 Top sheller The age of Commissioning Editor Anne Crane Chief Production Editor Tom Derbyshire Martinware tortoise disc content Digital & Art Market Editor Alex Capon emerges to make £17,000 Reporter Frances Allitt page 4 Spoon in style unique Marketing Manager Beverley Marshall to Scotland Print & ProduCtion Director Justin Massie-Taylor In The News page 4 scoops £21,000 SUBSCRIPTIONS ENQUIRIES in Edinburgh Polly Stevens +44 (0)20 3725 5507 Dealer’s kitchen antiques collection finds new [email protected] saleroom home at North Yorkshire hall EDITORIAL page 8 +44 (0)20 3725 5520 [email protected] ADVERTISING News Digest page 8-9 +44 (0)20 3725 5604 Includes pick of the week [email protected] AUCTION ADVERTISING Charlotte Scott-Smith +44 (0)20 3725 5602 Auction Reports [email protected] NON-AUCTION ADVERTISING HAMMER HIGHLIGHTS Dan Connor +44 (0)20 3725 5605 The Mouseman in his prime page 12-16 [email protected] CLASSIFIED ART MARKET Rebecca Bridges +44 (0)20 3725 5604 [email protected] Even Old Masters have to wait page 18-19 INTERNATIONAL ADVERTISING BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER Susan Glinska +44 (0)20 3725 5607 [email protected] Macbeth owned by Charlton Heston page 22-23 Francine Libessart +44 (0)20 3725 5613 [email protected] CALENDAR CONTROLLER Previews page 26-27 & FAIRS AND MARKETS ADVERTISING Rachel Tolley +44 (0)20 3725 5606 Little and large [email protected] Dealers’ Diary ATG PRODUCTION +44 (0)20 3725 5620 Shire horse made by Muireann Grealy +44 (0)20 3725 5623 Hurt’s romantic view of Scotland page 30-31 the Mouseman firm page 12 SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES International Events page 32-43 This product is produced from sustainably managed forests and controlled UK Auction Calendar page 46-51 French taste sources. 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Sign up today for free and stay one step ahead antiquestradegazette.com/morningbriefing 2 | 29 August 2020 antiquestradegazette.com PAGE 002 2456.indd 1 21/08/2020 15:48:36 antiques trade gazette PDF proof o Paper proof o WWAd04-102Designer: ATG 244x335mm.qxp_Layout initial File Name: W&W 1 18/08/2020 fp HE 15:27 Page 1Proofed by: Date: Cleared by: Time/Date: OLD MASTERS, BRITISH & EUROPEAN PAINTINGS TUESDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER 2020 AT 10AM William Duffield (1816­1863) Nicolas de Largillière (French 1656­1746) James Sant CVO, RA (1820­1916) Still life with fruit in a basket, parrot and claret jug Portrait of Monsieur Aubert, General Director of the Bridges and Portrait of a young girl, half­length, in a white dress and red on a stone ledge (detail) Roads of France, three­quarter­length, by a writing table (detail) sash holding a dove (detail) Signed and dated 1853 Inscribed A Monsieur/M*nsi*** Aubert/Controlle* général des Signed Oil on canvas Ponts/ Chaussée de france Oil on canvas in a painted oval 43.5 x 53.7cm; 17¼ x 21¼in Oil on canvas laid on panel 76.4 x 63.6cm; 30 x 25in, framed as an oval Estimate £3,500­4,500* 134.5 x 103cm; 53 x 40½in Estimate £5,000­7,000* Estimate £12,000­18,000* Viewing by appointment only ENQUIRIES Victor Fauvelle | +44 (0)1722 446961 | [email protected] 51­61 Castle Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP1 3SU www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk *Visit woolleyandwallis.co.uk/buying for additional charges on final hammer price LIVE NB. Folio strap (left or right) - to include date and ATG url etc... PAGE 003 2456.indd 1 20/08/2020 14:16:44 News Dealer’s kitchen antiques Right: Martin Brothers tortoise collection finds new home dated March 1904 _ £17,000 at Toovey’s. A vast collection of Victorian Left: director of Kiplin kitchen antiques formed by a Hall & Gardens, James dealer from Kent has found a Etherington, pictured new home in North Yorkshire. outside the house £17,000 Martinware Annie Marchant, who lived holding a Victorian in Wingham, died of swan-shaped ice- pneumonia, aged 68, this cream mould from the tortoise emerges spring.