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Having moved back to Malta, where she spent much of her childhood, Sophie Edwards took over the island’s oldest pottery, which produces the hand-painted ceramic pieces that feature in many of the ...

Friend and patron to a starry cast of 20th-century artists, British-born collector Pauline Karpidas is auctioning the ...

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