A French court has ordered eBay to pay £31.6million to luxury goods group LVMH for allowing online auctions of fake copies of its goods.
LVMH said eBay’s French site had not done enough to stop the sale of counterfeit bags and perfumes. The brands affected include Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior and Givenchy.
An eBay statement said LVMH […]

Sotheby’s sale of Old Master Drawings on Wednesday, July 9, 2008 will bring to the market a range of rare and important drawings from the 16th to the 19th centuries, encompassing all European schools. The sale will be spearheaded by an early and rare figure drawing by Jan Lievens, who during the 1620s worked closely […]

The painting “Crossing the Road” will go under the hammer at Bonhams’ 20th Century British Art Sale on the 2 July. The piece is estimated to sell for £100,000 - 150,000. Spencer’s love of his home village, Cookham, was immortalised in his series of paintings for the “Church-House” scheme that he began in 1932.
“Crossing the […]

Indian artists such as Subodh Gupta (b. 1964), Bharti Kher (b. 1969), Anish Kapoor (b. 1954), Raqib Shaw (b. 1974) and T.V. Santhosh (b. 1968) are an ever-growing force in Sotheby’s international sales of Contemporary Art – in addition to the company’s regular dedicated sales of Indian Art – and this summer’s major series of […]

Classic transport is featured in the Charterhouse auction of automobilia, classic cars and motorbikes in Sherborne on Saturday 12th July.
“First up is a Penny Farthing bicycle. Also know as an Ordinary or High bicycle, this form of pedal power was first invented in 1871 by James Starley a British engineer, and is an icon of […]

Cheffins Auctioneers will be holding a Pictures & Books Sale on Thursday 10th July with a diverse range of interesting books.
The most important C17th English work of political philosophy is already attracting much attention, a first edition, first issue London copy of Hobbes (Thomas)’Leviathan Or The Matter, and a Power of A Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall […]

Cheffins Summer Fine Art Sale saw good prices throughout this two day auction. English pottery began the sale - lot 5 a late C19th Doulton ‘Pure Milk’ bucket, 41.5cm diameter finally made £1,900. A large collection of Staffordshire also attracted much attention and made very good prices throughout, with an early C19th Staffordshire pottery group […]