24 9th June 2012 dealers’ dossier


Anna Brady reports


email: annabrady@atgmedia.com tel: 020 7420 6625


Right: for those of you who have not quite had your fi ll of bunting after the past weekend’s Jubilee festivities, here is something to prolong the merriment. Liz Pettifer from


Chelsea sent me this picture of a display, created by owner Tina Bryan in the windows of the Old Bakery Antiques shop in Wymondham, Norfolk. As Liz says: “I can’t believe there is a better Jubilee shop window even in Bond Street.”


Fair’s third year next to


■ Art Antiques London opens this month in Kensington


ANOTHER week, another fair. Hot on the heels of Olympia, the third Art Antiques London opens from June 14-20, with a preview on June 13, in its airy marquee in the shadow of the Albert Memorial on Kensington Gardens.


Organised by the capable and


experienced Brian and Anna Haughton, this fair may only be three years old in its current guise, but it incorporates The International Ceramics Fair and Seminar, which the Haughtons have been organising in London since 1982. This bedrock shows through in


A ceramics special Above: at the London Ceramic Fair on June 9,


the stock on offer, as among the 74 exhibitors there is still a weighting towards ceramics dealers and the academic lecture series continues to add a scholarly dimension to the fair, a combination that draws in a loyal and knowledgeable collector base alongside curators and academics. The fair’s dates are a little later this


Aurea Carter will ask £5000 for this c.1758 Worcester porcelain teapot, painted on each side with fl owers and a large butterfl y.


ON Saturday, June 9, some 20 ceramics specialists will descend upon Kensington Town Hall in Horton Street for the London Ceramic Fair organised by Nick Gent of Prestige Ceramics Fairs. Porcelain dealers Aurea Carter, Rod


Jellicoe, Juno Antiques and David Norley will set up alongside Dudley Thompson and Jerry Holmes, who specialise in Asian pieces. Pottery dealers include Peter and Susan Reece, Martyn Edgall and John Shepard, while the newcomers this year are Simon Pirzada, a London-based dealer in 19th century English porcelain, and Clive Payne, a specialist in Masons pottery and porcelain. The fair runs for one day only from 11am-4.30pm and a complimentary ticket can be downloaded from the website www.prestigeceramicfairs.com


Correction


LAURA Bordignon has taken over from Ian Walker as chairman of the BADA fair, not from Jonathan Coulborn, as was incorrectly stated in ATG No 2042. Jonathan Coulborn will remain as BADA chairman.


Above: May sunshine fi lters into the Grand Hall of Olympia in West London last week as the build got under way to create more than 200 stands for the 40th Olympia International Fine Art & Antiques Fair. The fair opens this week with a preview on Thursday, June 7, and runs until June 17. www.olympia-art-antiques.com


year than last – the original dates were just a little too close to the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee on June 4-5. Setting up over the special double bank holiday would have raised exhibitors’ costs and the organisers felt that a number of important clients may be away during the fi rst week in June, using the bank holiday as part of a longer break. The later timing also means the fair


avoids a big overlap with Olympia (June 7-17). Last year, the two fairs opened on the same day, which proved unpopular and led to speculation by exhibitors at both events that they might be losing visitors to the other event. Hopefully this


Above: at Art Antiques London, Harry Moore Gwyn will ask around £13,500 for this vibrant oil on panel titled Promenaders in the park at Golders Hill by the British artist Ethelbert White (1891-1972), a signed work from c.1917 which measures 20 x 16in (51 x 40cm). Above right: Peta Smyth’s stand at Art Antiques London will feature this 19th century mezzaro ‘dell’albero vecchio’ by Luigi Testori of Sampierdarena, Genoa, which measures 7ft 8in x 8ft 8in (2.34 x 2.64m) and is priced at £4000. Right: a Ludwigsburg pastoral group, c.1765, modelled by Johann Christoph Haselmeyer, offered with a fi ve-fi gure price tag by Daniela Kumpf Kunsthandel at Art Antiques London.


year’s arrangements will prove benefi cial to both and help soften the hiatus between the two fairs and Masterpiece London, which opens on June 27. But for now, back to Art Antiques


London. At 74 exhibitors, it is the most compact of the big three London fairs in June, but size isn’t everything and AAL offers a well-presented crop of galleries showing art, furniture, works of art – including a number of Asian specialists – jewellery, textiles, silver and glass alongside the aforementioned ceramics exhibitors. This year sees 11 new exhibitors,


among them the long-established textiles dealer Peta Smyth, who set up her


PRIOR to exhibiting at Olympia, Frank Wilson of Wilsons Antiques decided to hold a preview of his marine art and antiques in his Worthing shop, which was opened by two Olympic medallist sailors. Pictured right in front of a 19th


century marine oil by George Mears are Alan Warren (left) from Worthing, who won a silver medal in the Tempest Class at the 1972 Munich games, and David Bowker (right) from Bosham, who was silver medallist in the 5.5 metre class at the 1956 Melbourne games.


Pimlico shop in 1976; Chinese specialists D and M Freedman of London; Martin Murray Country Antiques, also of London, who have early country furniture and folk art; Hampton Antiques from Northamptonshire, whose specialism is antique boxes; Galerie Couvrat Desvergnes from Paris with 20th century art and design; and Swiss jewellery dealer GRIMA. Five of the fi rst-timers are art galleries


and they are Andrew Edmunds, the Soho specialist in 18th century satirical prints; Stephanie Hoppen Gallery of London, with contemporary art and photography; Modern British art


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