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NEWS & VIEWS
mixture from delicate glass to sturdy, 17th-century oak furniture is featured as well as silver Victorian lemon squeezers or
Chinese-inspired silver mustard pots.
For more information on opening hours and ticket prices,
visit www.olympia-antiques.com and Twitter @WFAAF
A sophisticated mid-17th-century oak mule chest (or Coffer) with
drawer, the hinged plank top above a frieze with appliques, yew
wood mouldings, ebony panels and three geometrically applied
panels above three snakewood veneered cushion moulded panels.
On show in the W. R. Harvey Autumn Exhibition. £4,500.
The Millinery Works Gallery in London has announced a
new exhibition that will display prize pieces of Arts and Crafts
furniture alongside Modern British paintings, including works
by Edward Wolfe RA. ‘In Situ’ will be open to the public from
the 19th November to 22nd December 2013 and will also
exhibit a collection of contemporary crafts, including glassware by Stephen Newell and Simon Moore, ceramics by Jill
Fanshaw Kato and Romilly Graham, and woodwork by
Richard Chapman.
Early furniture specialists, Suffolk House Antiques, are holding
their usual Christmas Selling Exhibition at their extensive galleries
in Yoxford opening on Saturday 30th November. As usual, early
oak furniture will be the mainstay and one of the earliest pieces
will be a small 16th-century Northamptonshire chest (see left)
with carved roundels to the front. From the 17th century there
will be a rare Charles I table cupboard, a fine burr elm chest of
drawers and a good West Country armchair.
Sales
A small 16th-century oak two door cupboard of simple form.
Courtesy of Suffolk House Antiques
The 2013 Winter Fine Art & Antiques Fair, Olympia runs
from Tuesday 5th November to Sunday 10th November
2013 with a Collectors’ preview evening on Monday 4th
November 2013. This year, the Fair has aligned its dates with
the influential Asian Art in London 2013, further increasing
the lure of London as an art and antiques destination at this
time of year.
It exhibits classic British design, antiques and art through the
ages from the 16th century to modern times. The fair attracts
a loyal following of leading interior designers and collectors, as
well as shoppers looking for more unusual pieces. An eclectic
Some of the pewter recovered from a shipwrecked Spanish galleon
off Hispaniola, which is to be sold by Wilkinsons of Doncaster.
Wilkinson of Doncaster have an assemblage of pewter
recovered from a shipwrecked Spanish galleon off Hispaniola
coming up for sale on November 24th. It has taken over two
years to recover the cargo, which included some 1200 pieces
of pewter tableware, about a third of it with the marking of
Alderman Sir Thomas Curtis, Mayor of London in 1557 and
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