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The highest auction price for Clarice Cliff for some years was posted on March 14 when an 18in (46cm) ribbed charger in the Applique Etna pattern sold for £18,500 (plus 26% buyer’s premium) at Fieldings.

An early watercolour by JMW Turner which had been hanging unidentified in the vendor’s dining room for over 30 years overshot a £20,000-30,000 estimate at Chef f ins in Cambridge, selling at £37,000.

A rare picture painted in India by Arthur William Devis (1762-1822) depicting a group of Bengali weavers was the subject of dramatic competition at Gorringe’s (25% buyer’s premium) spring fine art and antiques sale.

Second World War posters recruiting British and American women to the war effort are a familiar sight at auction.

Further high-ticket sales from this year’s TEFAF Maastricht have been announced.

A new boutique art fair launches in London this spring.

A group of portraits from the collection of the 3rd Earl of Liverpool, Charles Cecil Cope Jenkinson (1784-1851), will be offered at Gloucestershire saleroom Chorley’s next month.

A new record for African or Oceanic tribal art was set at Christie’s in Paris as part of the sale of the remarkable Barbier-Mueller collection.

Global online sales of art and antiques increased 7% year-on-year in 2023, despite the market overall decreasing by 4%, according to latest Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report.

A self-portrait by Sarah Biffin (c.1784-1850) has been acquired by the Museum of Somerset where it is now on display.

Following an extraordinary 20 minutes of bidding, a pair of Chinese vases now hold the house record at Portsmouth auction house Nesbits.