Roseberys London

Roseberys works from a saleroom in West Norwood, south London, and runs an unusually wide set of specialist departments for a house of its size — fifteen of them, from antiquities to studio pottery. That breadth is the reason to watch it: material that would be a footnote in a larger house gets its own catalogued sale here.

What you can buy

• Old Master, British and European pictures, and Modern British art.
• Chinese, Japanese and South East Asian art; Islamic and Indian art.
• Antiquities, ceramics and glass.
• Jewellery, silver, watches and luxury items.
• Design, prints and multiples, studio pottery.
• Furniture and rugs, works of art, sculpture and clocks.
• Wine.

How the bidding works

Sales are catalogued room auctions with online bidding, and single-owner collections are sold as their own events. Valuation work for probate, estates and insurance feeds the stock, which is why fresh-to-market material turns up in the specialist sales rather than only in the general ones.

What to check before you bid

Antiquities and Asian art carry provenance and export questions that a catalogue entry summarises rather than settles — read the provenance line and ask if it stops short of the modern era. Buyer's premium plus online bidding surcharge is the real cost; the platform fee is not always the same across the ways of bidding. Collection is from south London, and for furniture that means arranging a courier rather than a car.