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Set alongside the four treasures of the study (the calligraphy brush, ink, paper, and inkstone) a brush pot, or bitong, was a fundamental fixture of the scholar's desk. Find this intricate carved bamboo Qing Dynasty bitong at auction: ow.ly/8CgL50Z1ym8

Otto Marseus van Schrieck (1619–1678) was the pioneering painter who invented the sottobosco - paintings of the forest floor. He spent so much time snuffling around in the undergrowth that his friends gave him the nickname "the snuffler." Bid at: ow.ly/AxIb50Z1wzq

Joseph McKenzie's famous photo, Beatle Girl, documents a child in an area of Glasgow that was being demolished around her. And yet she stands, smiling, beside her mother, who wears a dress printed with the Beatles' faces. Bid on the print at: invaluable.com/auction-lot/jo…

The Catholic Mano Poderosa; the pre-Columbian sun in hand; and the milagro tradition of the hand as a votive object in precious metal. This hand, attributed to Sergio Bustamante, bringing together three spiritual traditions, is coming to auction: ow.ly/WsjQ50Z1xOC

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Chagall left his village in Russia as a young man, and much of the old city he remembered was destroyed by Nazi occupation. From then on, many of Chagall’s recurring images of Vitebsk became evocations of a lost world. This print comes to auction on May 19 ow.ly/RQPV50YZszh

Behind the canvas, a self-portrait of one of the most popular British artists, Jack Vettriano OBE Hon LLD, who died in 2025. Get ready to bid on Invaluable in Bonhams' May 20 sale of Scottish art at: ow.ly/hw1p50YZs0H #Vettriano #JackVettriano #ScottishArt #ScottishArtists

Uranium glass has long captured the imaginations of collectors. This extraordinary example from the Belle Époque, shown here under a black light, is coming to auction on Invaluable in the Kirribilli Home Contents auction on 19 May. Register to bid at: ow.ly/bgQV50YYQKw

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Keep your feet cool with meticulously painted hyperrealism from James Valerio. It's coming to auction on Invaluable in the Rago Arts and Auction Center's May 14 sale: ow.ly/KSZi50YWa7g

Two people. A small car. A grey landscape. But it became one of Gianni Berengo Gardin's most celebrated and reproduced photographs. This gelatin silver print, printed in 2010, is coming to auction on Invaluable in Finarte's May 18 sale. Place your bids at: ow.ly/mjE450YW9ZG

"I Am My Own Property" was the title given to a recent exhibition about the life of designer Ethel Reed. In 1895 she shot to fame as one of the most celebrated poster designers in America. This poster, coming to auction, was made at the height of her fame: ow.ly/pEXZ50YW9I5

Classical antiquity meets modern speed in Jack Le Breton's 1920s Fiat poster, which shows the Fiat 520 roaring past history's athletic ideal, the famous ancient Greek Discobolus discus thrower. Bid in the May 28 Soler y Llach sale on Invaluable at ow.ly/cpVo50YVW73

A work from Alphonse Mucha's career, that bridges his work in commercial illustration with his spiritual and artistic expression. This series of four panels, each representing a star is coming to work on Invaluable in Swann Auction Galleries' May 21 sale: ow.ly/61g050YVGyh

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He made his name as one of America's foremost fashion photographers of the 1930s and '40s. But George Platt Lynes spent years working in secret on a series of male nudes that could have sent him to prison. A sale of his work will be hosted on May 6: ow.ly/mShF50YSn8I

Giant eyeglass signs such as this one, which might appear today as a design flourish from times of old, actually served as functional communication across a literacy divide when many people still could not read. Find this one coming to auction on May 7: ow.ly/BnwX50YSnwZ

David Shrigley's Stop Panicking was published in 2021, in the wake of COVID-19. The title mimicked the messages of reassurance issued by governments throughout the preceding year. Delivery by hysterical pink goose gives it a different feeling. Bid at: ow.ly/sJsu50YSo3c

Commenting on the hollowness of identity in a digital age, Loribelle Spirovski described this as "perfect for Instagram." It might catch your attention, but the identity of the sitter is obscured and abstracted. Homme 92 is coming to auction on May 1: ow.ly/qYO250YSmXZ