LONDON.- For the third year in a row, The Mayfair Antiques & Fine Art Fair takes place at the London Marriott Hotel Grosvenor Square, London W1K 6JP from Thursday 8 until Sunday 11 January 2015. Organised by The Antiques Dealers Fair Limited and held in association with Mayfair property specialist Wetherell, this boutique event has built up an enviable reputation amongst its international audience.

The fair attracts collectors, interior designers and people seeking the finest things in life. It has boasted an exhibitor waiting list since before the first event even took place. The majority of the 44 exhibitors are members of the British Antique Dealers’ Association and LAPADA The Association of Art & Antiques Dealers. Newcomers this coming January include Kinghams Art Pottery Ltd bringing Martin Brothers, Wedgewood’s Fairyland and William de Morgan collections; Art Nouveau and Art Deco glass experts M&D Moir selling Lalique, Gallé, Daum, Monart and more; Dinan & Chighine, specialising in 17th to 20th century decorative engravings and watercolours; Manya Igel Fine Arts with a fine collection of paintings by Royal Academicians and members of the New England Art Club and Timothy Langston Antiques with English, Continental and Oriental furniture, objects, paintings and decorative lighting, including a Chinese iron red and gilded rouleau vase, decorated with figures, flowers and foliage, c1850, £1,950.

As well as bringing English antique furniture, returning exhibitor WR Harvey & Co (Antiques) Ltd is showing a collection of 18th century Chinese furniture from Shanxi Province, amongst which is a decorated lacquer book cabinet depicting a rural idyll, framed with butterflies, the symbol of marital bliss and happiness, £6,500. Walton House Antiques is bringing a superb late 17th century William and Mary period walnut and elm chest of drawers on turned walnut bun feet, c1680-90 with a wonderful arabesque design seaweed marquetry panels on both the top and the drawer fronts, selling for £15,000. Walton House Antiques’ stand features three dealers – Nicholas Arkell (furniture), Cambridge Fine Art (traditional oil paintings) and well known BBC Antiques Roadshow expert Richard Price (clocks).

The Art Deco period is currently very much in vogue, so collectors are in for a treat. Jeroen Markies’ Art Deco Strohmenger baby grand satinwood and walnut piano came from The White House in North London, a guest house for the stars of the silver screen filming at Elstree Studios during the 1920s and 30s and is for sale for £16,500. Both Jeroen Markies and Gazelles of Lyndhurst offer original Art Deco items from pianos, leather suites and cocktail cabinets to lighting, sculpture, tea sets and vases.

Jewellery always draws the crowds and a highlight from T Robert is a very special Imperial apple green carved jade, pearl, diamond and platinum Buddha pendant necklace, c1925.

Imperial apple green is a rare and sought after colour. The intricate and delicate workmanship gives the pendant flexibility of movement (POA). If budget is unlimited and with a price tag of £30,000, Anthea AG Antiques’ Art Deco bracelet made up of 20 carats of diamonds set in platinum cannot fail to create a stir when worn. Anthea AG Antiques shows other pieces by Van Cleef & Arpels, Cartier, Tiffany and Hermès, as well as a highly collectible 19th century English ‘Regard’ heart pendant, c1840. The stones spell ‘regard’ (ruby, emerald, garnet, amethyst, ruby and diamond), English, c1840, £4,200. Very popular at the time, these were romantic gestures. Further jewellers returning to exhibit include Markov, Sue Brown and Wimpole Antiques.

Amongst the vintage and antique watches Anthony Green Antiques is bringing to Mayfair are an Art Deco diamond and platinum cocktail bracelet wristwatch with original Swiss jewelled movement, c1935, £12,850; an iconic Borgel case Longines wristwatch, c1922, often referred to as Officers’ or Trench watches, as they first appeared during the Great War; an 18ct gold Cartier gentleman’s slim dress watch, c1925, £9,850 and a vintage Jaeger LeCoultre Reverso wristwatch in steel, c1946, £12,750.

Art dealer Haynes Fine Art of Broadway has a fine Edward Seago (1910-1974) oil painting of The Hard, Ponza Harbour in Italy, 20” x 30”, POA and Helen Bradley’s distinctive and colourful style comes to life in Blackpool Beach, 30” x 38”, £245,000. Cambridge Fine Art deals mainly in British paintings and is bringing landscapes and seascapes by Edward Haddon, Edward Masters, Alfred Pollentine. One of Alfred de Breanski Snr’s first paintings to be exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1873 ‘The Valley of Llugwy River at Pont-y-Cyfyng, North Wales’ is also on the stand, priced at £27,500. London scenes include Vauxhall Gardens by Doris Zinkheisen (1898-1991), £5,500 and Albert Bridge, Chelsea by Michael D’Aguilar (b.1924).

From the Channel Islands, Atelier Ltd is also bringing views of the capital including a scene from Greenwich Park by George Sidney Shepherd NWS (1784-1862), an etching of Limehouse by James Abbott Mc Neill Whistler PRBA (1834-1903) and Maurice Bliek’s oil painting of Piccadilly Circus, London with the prominent Bovril advertising sign, erected in 1909, together with the Schweppes Ginger Ale sign beneath. It is likely that Bliek (1876-1922) painted the scene during the First World War when he divided his time between Paris and London. From across the Channel comes Arc de Triomphe pen and ink with colour wash, French School, c1905, previously in the Yves St Laurent Collection, £12,500 from Charles Plante. Other picture dealers include Paul Mayhew Fine Art and Ashleigh House Fine Art.

A number of items for sale come from the Russian Empire. A magnificent bronze study Zaporozhian Cossack after Battle by important Russian sculptor Eugene Alexandrovich Lanceray (1848 to 1886) can be found from Hickmet Fine Arts, selling for £33,500. It depicts a mounted Cossack carrying a lance, cleaning his sword and leading a captured horse, c1885. Lanceray travelled widely across Russia, Bashkiria, Kirghizia, Ukraine and the Caucasus, observing tribesmen and their animals. He sculpted around four hundred works on historical, ethnographic and genre themes and was awarded the title of honorary fellow of the Imperial Academy of Arts in 1876.

Amongst the textiles and carpets for sale from the Russian Empire are tribal rugs from the Caucasus and Turkmenistan. In the late 19th century, it became fashionable to decorate houses with carpets from these regions. Turkmenistan shipped rugs to St Petersburg and Moscow in payment of taxes. Pars Rug Gallery brings these and other attractive antique floor coverings including an antique Persian Heriz, 5 x 3.5m, c1870, £17,000. An antique tribal rug from the Caucasus, 1.60 x 3m, £9,000 is amongst the German exhibitor Galerie Arabesque’s exquisite stock of Asian works of art and textiles. Marilyn Garrow Fine Textile Art is bringing magnificent European and Oriental embroideries and hand woven pieces.

Silver dealers exhibiting include Mary Cooke Antiques with a magnificent and unusual George III silver tea or water urn, standing 18½” high, made in London by Daniel Smith and Robert Sharp in 1771, £7,500. JH Bourdon-Smith and Stephen Kalms Antiques are also bringing their best antique silver. Unusual objects from Smith & Robinson Antiques make fabulous gifts for discerning friends and family and Hampton Antiques has a box for every occasion, from games compendiums to tea caddies. Mark J West brings a variety of glass from 18th and 19th century antique to Art Deco art glass. Oriental, European and English ceramics, from pottery to porcelain, are all catered for by Philip Carrol.

One of London’s most stylish hotels, The London Marriott Hotel Grosvenor Square is situated in the heart of Mayfair, just minutes from the West End’s shopping streets and Park Lane. Light refreshments can be found in the fair’s foyer, cocktails in the award winning twenties’ style Luggage Room, whilst Gordon Ramsay’s two restaurants maze and maze Grill offer fine dining and New York grill inspired food upstairs from the fair.