Issue 2027 | 11th February 2012 UK £2.00 – USA $6.50 – Europe €3.95


art market page 27 | EXHIBITIONS


Golden days with Anthony Green down in Rye


Britain’s Best Antiques Awards – the shortlist


THE shortlist for Britain’s Best Antiques Awards is now in – the winners to be announced next month. The new competition, which was run by Homes and Antiques magazine between


early October and the end of November, invited the public to nominate their favourite antiques destinations. There has been a clear winner in each of the fi ve categories so the decision has


been taken to award prizes solely on the number of votes casts. The campaign, designed to raise the profi le of art and antiques in the United Kingdom is being backed by TV celebrity and champion of antiques Kirstie Allsopp who will announce the winners at the Bath Decorative Antiques Fair on March 8.


The nominations made in fi ve categories are as follows:


BEST ANTIQUES SHOP Blighty Antiques, Cheltenham Richard Gardner Antiques, Chichester Spencer Swaffer Antiques, Arundel Phoenix Antiques Barn, Penrith Collinge Antiques, Llandudno


BEST ANTIQUES CENTRE Hungerford Antiques Centre Hemswell Antiques Centre, Gainsborough Brackley Antiques Centre


The Swan Antiques Centre, Tetsworth Woodbridge Antiques Centre


BEST VINTAGE/MID-CENTURY SHOP Nanadobbie, Brighton Decoratum, Marylebone, London Vintage Treasures, Hinckley Purple Haze, York


BEST SPECIALIST SHOP Manfred Schotten Antiques, Burford Michael & Jo Saffell, Bath


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BIDDERS in the room, on the phones and the internet were all in action last week to contest the 475-lot sale of the collection of Will Fisher, founder of Jamb, at Christie’s South Kensington on February 2. The auction of mixed pieces came from the London dealer’s Camberwell home and stock from his Pimlico Road gallery, from which he is moving to new premises. The sale had been estimated to fetch £1.4m-2.4m, but with plenty of the pieces that made up the distinctive Jamb look contested well past expectations by multiple bids, the all-day event ended up totalling £3.15m hammer. Chimmeypieces are a Jamb speciality and the day’s top lot was the 7ft 10in


(2.4m) wide, mid-18th century example, above, in verde antico and statuary marble, made to a Palladian-inspired design by Isaac Ware. It was possibly carved in the workshop of James Richards and fetched £150,000, plus premium. Anne Crane


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