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Heritage Auctions has appointed Nick Nicholson as Deputy Chairman of Decorative Arts, a role in which he oversees divisional strategy, business development, and client relationships.
A pair of important late medieval royal heraldic embroideries from the mid to late 15th century will be offered at Bonhams Fine Decorative Arts sale in London on 2 July 2026.
On August 24, 2026, Phillips announced a series of sales including an Editions Evening sale and an Editions Online sale, alongside London's first dedicated Modernism sale. The sales will feature a range of works spanning modern and contemporary art, with highlights yet to be detailed.
The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, announced on April 15, 2026, the appointment of C. D. Dickerson III as dean of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts.
On August 20, 2026, Lempertz announced it will auction the Jansen Collection, a comprehensive assemblage of Ludwigsburg porcelain, in an online auction running from September 10 to September 22, 2026.
On August 18, 2026, the Getty Conservation Institute announced ongoing conservation of an 18th-century French commode by Bernard II van Risenburgh that incorporates Japanese lacquer panels.
Bonhams announced the successful sale of The Contents of Monreith House, a historic Scottish estate of Clan Maxwell, across two auctions in July from its Edinburgh saleroom.
On July 28, 2026, Lempertz announced it has been entrusted with auctioning the Heinz and Else Kress collection of inrō, one of the most extensive and comprehensive collections of Japanese lacquer boxes in Europe.
The Musée d'Orsay in Paris holds a copper box by the House of Christofle & Cie, dating to circa 1910–1913, with a lotus-leaf decoration created through turned, patinated, acid-etched and gilded techniques. The box, measuring 5.8 cm high and 9.7 cm in diameter, was acquired by the museum in 2007.
Artcurial will auction the collection 'Le goût Rothschild en héritage, Un pied-à-terre sur le Champ-de-Mars' on September 22, 2026, in Paris. The sale spans furniture, decorative arts, Old Master paintings, books, and autographs assembled over generations of the Rothschild family.
Musée d'Orsay has acquired 'La Verrerie,' a decorative panel by Georges de Feure originally created for the 'L’Art Nouveau Bing' pavilion at the 1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris.
Artcurial held its final auction of the season on December 16 and 17, 2025, dedicated to decorative arts from the 17th to the 19th century. The two sessions offered over 400 lots from several European private collections and achieved €2.9 million with more than 80 percent of lots sold.
Bonhams concluded The Classics series in London with six live sales that generated a combined £5,534,325. The auctions spanned Fine Clocks, European Ceramics, Old Master Paintings, Fine Decorative Arts and Antiquities, following an earlier edition in Paris.
Artcurial will present its Furniture & Works of Art auction on June 16 and 17 featuring 18th-century European decorative arts.
Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr will hold its Classics auction in Paris on 22 April featuring an exceptional collection of early Meissen porcelain assembled in East Asia including pieces from the personal collection of Augustus the Strong Elector of Saxony and King of Poland.
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