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2023-24

Case 1 - 38 Original Drawings of Flowers at Kew by Simon Taylor

Case 2 - Chandelier for Peter Watson by Alberto Giacometti

Case 3 - Tipu Sultan of Mysore’s Flintlock Sporting Gun

Case 4 - Mount or pin-head/brooch, ca. 8th - early 9th century AD

Case 5 - Mount, ca. 9th century AD

Case 6 - Brooch, ca. early 9th century AD

Case 7 - Mount, ca. 2nd half 7th century AD

Case 8 - Walrus Ivory carving of Deposition from the Cross

Case 9 - The Old French New Testament, formerly owned by Jean le Bon

Case 10 - Taste in High Life (or Taste à-la-Mode) by William Hogarth

Case 11 - Hans Coper Monumental bottle with disc top

Case 12 - Recto: Portrait of a Dead Child by Samuel Cooper

Case 13 - Iron Age gold brooches

Case 14 - The Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint John the Evangelist and the Magdalen by Fra Angelico

Case 15 - Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Polar Medal

Case 16 - Pietra Dura panel of a Venetian capriccio in gilt-bronze frame, After
Giuseppe Zocchi, Italian

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2022/23

Case 1 - Algernon Marsden by James Joseph Jacques Tissot

Case 2 - Self-Portrait as a Knight, with a horse, an easel with painter’s palette and a page by Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli, called ‘il Morazzone’

Case 3 - Vesuvius in Eruption, viewed from Posillipo by Joseph Wright of Derby

Case 4 - Nine conjoined roundels, presentation manuscript for Queen Elizabeth I

Case 5 -  Arctic Expedition 1852, sledge flag of Captain Henry Kellett, C.B. commanding H.M.S Resolute 

Case 6 - The Cricketers (Ralph Izard & Friends) c.1763 by Benjamin West

Case 7 - Victoria Cross posthumously awarded to Squadron Leader A.S.K Scarf, Royal Air Force, and four other of his medals

Case 8 - A Young Teacher by Rebecca Solomon

Case 9 - Set of 120 original drawings of animals by Joseph Wolf

Case 10 - Birds: A Portfolio of Ornithological Drawings c.1790

Case 11 - French Gothic Ivory Composite Casket

Case 12 - Egyptian Limestone Group Statue for Mehernefer and his son, Old Kingdom, c. 2400-2300 B.C.

Case 13 - An Egyptian Limestone Relief, Amarna Period, c. 1351- 1334 B.C.

Case 14 - Autograph verses in Greek by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Case 15 - Prince Saunders (c.1775–1839) by William Hobday



Case 16 - Risaldar Jagat Singh and Risaldar Man Singh by Philip de László

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2021/22

Case 1 - Gould’s original drawings, vol. I and II

Case 2 - Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Medal Miniatures

Case 3 - The Nativity by Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi

Case 4 - Aristotle and Homer Marble Busts attributed to Giuliano Finelli

Case 5 - Portrait of Joan Thornbury by Hans Eworth

Case 6 - The Earl of Dalhousie by John Singer Sargent

Case 7 - Tipu Sultan Throne Finial

Case 8 - Allegorical Painting of Two Ladies, English School, circa 1650

Case 9 - Early Charles II ebony longcase clock

Case 10 - Portrait of Prince William by Benjamin West

Case 11 - Banquet Still Life by Jan Davidsz. de Heem

Case 12 - Portrait of Omai by Sir Joshua Reynolds

Case 13 - 17th century manuscript of Italian and French lute music

Case 14 - Caernarvon Castle by JMW Tuner

Case 15 - A Pair of Group Portraits of Mr and Mrs Joseph May and their Children (1780) by Angelica Kauffman

Case 16 - Ferme normande, été (Hattenville) (1882) by Paul Cezanne

Case 17 - A View of Verona with the Ponte delle Navi by Bernardo Bellotto 

Case 18 - Confirmation by Nicolas Poussin

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Case hearings archive

Download all case hearing files from pre-2021 from our case hearings archive.

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