A GERMAN IVORY GOBLET

Recommended features

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  • The collection of Gloria, late Dowager Countess Bathurst

    Offered on 22 July at Christie’s in London, a superb collection of furniture, decorative arts, sculpture, paintings, jewellery, prints and works on paper

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  • The tastemaker: Alex Papachristidis

    The New York-based interior designer reveals his choice of items offered in the online Collector sale from 28 April to 7 May

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  • The A-Z of furniture: Terminology to know when buying at auction

    From applique and back splats to veneering and wingbacks, an essential glossary of furniture terms

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  • 10 things to know about Albrecht Dürer

    Alastair Smart traces the extraordinary life and work of perhaps the finest printmaker in the history of art, featuring works offered online throughout July 

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  • Lines drawn in solitude: Sanyu’s White Chrysanthemum in a Blue and White Jardinière

    Christie’s specialist Evelyn Lin describes Sanyu’s melancholic painting, offered in Hong Kong on 10 July, as emerging from ‘a golden period of creative originality’