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A 19th century Italian bronze Mercury, signed 'Rainaldi,' priced £12,600 from Architectural Heritage. Image courtesy of the Cotswolds Art & Antiques Dealers' Association Fair.

Cotswolds dealers to stage 3rd annual antiques fair April 3-6

Tom Hoepf
Tom Hoepf
A 19th century Italian bronze Mercury, signed 'Rainaldi,' priced £12,600 from Architectural Heritage. Image courtesy of the Cotswolds Art & Antiques Dealers' Association Fair.
A 19th century Italian bronze Mercury, signed ‘Rainaldi,’ priced £12,600 from Architectural Heritage. Image courtesy of the Cotswolds Art & Antiques Dealers’ Association Fair.

WOODSTOCK, UK – The Cotswolds Art & Antiques Dealers’ Association Fair returns to the elegant setting of Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1PP from Thursday, April 3, to Sunday, April 6. Now in its third year the fair has cultivated an ardent following of collectors, art consultants, museum experts, interior designers and the public alike.

The Cotswolds Art & Antiques Dealers’ Association is the pre-eminent of the regional trade associations and the majority of the dealers exhibit at the top London fairs. A comment heard time and time again at the two previous fairs is “this is a London fair in the country.” The very best of every discipline is showcased including furniture, pictures, silver, early needlework and antique boxes, sculpture, bronze, clocks and barometers, carpets and textiles, jewellery, harps, Oriental and English ceramics, garden ornaments and statuary and many other decorative items.

All works are for sale with prices ranging from £100 to £100,000.

The fair is the perfect opportunity to hunt for the best antiques the Cotswolds has to offer. Highlights include a set of six English giltwood chairs, made in 1770 in the Chippendale manner bearing a provenance from Fingringhoe Hall, Colchester from Witney Antiques.

There is ample choice of ceramics throughout the fair. John Howard, the antique English pottery specialist as well as Chairman of CADA, has sourced a Staffordshire pottery tureen with a view of the South East aspect of Blenheim Palace originally engraved by William Radclyffe from an original study by John Preston Neale for £1,450. From Andrew Dando is a very scarce set of 18th century Derby porcelain figures depicting the “Tithe Pig” story, circa 1760, for £3,200. A pair of Martin Brothers stoneware vases decorated in the Japanese taste with fauna and flying birds, dated February 1889 will be offered by Hall-Bakker Decorative Arts for £6,500.

Fine art is well represented with Brian Sinfield Gallery showcasing the works of contemporary artists such as Portrait of Eli by Antony Williams for £22,000; The Last Gleam by Benjamin Williams Leader, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1879 from Haynes Fine Art of Broadway for £70,000; and Portrait of Harry La Montagne on a Grey by Sir Alfred Munnings (1878-1959) from Trinity House Paintings.

An exceptional highlight comes from W.R. Harvey & Co. Ltd., who is bringing an early William & Mary period two-door cabinet on chest attributed to Thomas Pistor of London at a price of £90,000.

Hours are 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily. More information is available on the CADA website: www.thecada.org.

ADDITIONAL IMAGE OF NOTE

A 19th century Italian bronze Mercury, signed 'Rainaldi,' priced £12,600 from Architectural Heritage. Image courtesy of the Cotswolds Art & Antiques Dealers' Association Fair.
A 19th century Italian bronze Mercury, signed ‘Rainaldi,’ priced £12,600 from Architectural Heritage. Image courtesy of the Cotswolds Art & Antiques Dealers’ Association Fair.