Rare works by Pangbourne painter and polymath fetch £71,400 at auction

Rare works by Pangbourne painter and polymath fetch £71,400 at auction

Sale of works by Mortimer Menpes, who built Pangbourne’s Iris Court and set up fruit farms in Purley-on-Thames doubles pre-sale estimate.

Historic Moorcroft vase fetches record-breaking £31,500 at auction

It comes just days after the Stoke-on-Trent pottery giant was saved from liquidation