Giles Hutchinson Smith, a director of the high profile Mayfair antique business Mallett, said this week that the company was "in discussion" with The Sunday Times in London about the article.
The article returned to an investigation by the newspaper from which the first results were published two years ago about embellished antique furniture stated to have been handled by the formerly highly regarded antiques business, John Hobbs.
It referred to a Russian desk that it claimed had come into the hands of Mallett.
Mr Hutchinson Smith, who will be known to many Australian antique lovers through his presentation of antiques in association with Sydney's Martyn Cook Antiques, told a special correspondent for the www.AntiquesReporter.com.au this week that a Sunday Times journalist involved in the reportage did not use some of the comments made by the company when it was approached before the article appeared.
The comments were in relation to the desk that originated from the workshops of the restorer Mr Dennis Buggins, described as a Kent-based restorer turned whistle blower.
The article implied that furniture "altered" by Mr Buggins was continuing to cause anxieties - and mislead would-be buyers - even in the higher echelons of the antiques market.
"We are therefore looking to the Sunday Times to make sure they clarify the actual course of events," he said.
"It is totally misleading that Mallett were forced to withdraw a desk from sale (as stated in the article)," he said.
"As with all the pieces we receive for sale a thorough investigation took place as to the desk’s provenance.
"These investigations established it had been embellished in order to have the appearance of an antique of much greater value.
"On this basis the desk was rejected for sale by Mallett. All this took place well before the Sunday Times contacted us about their continuing investigation into Buggins,"he said.
A letter from Mallett explaining its position has now appeared in this week's Sunday Times.
A piece that appeared to have been embellished by Buggins appeared, but fully and accurately described and provenanced, in the Owston sale held in September by Bonhams Australia.
This was reported and examined by an Antiques Reporter special correspondent in an article published on August 26, 2010.
The SundayTimes claimed buyers including Paul Allen, the Microsoft co-founder, Sir Elton John, Trudie Styler, the wife of Sting, Valentino Garavani, the Italian fashion designer, Jennifer Aniston, the actress, and John Thain, the American banker, had purchased furniture, usually through their decorator or interior designer, embellished by Buggins through John Hobbs.
Most of this information was first published by the newspaper in April 2008.
When the article appeared, the British Antique Dealers' Association announced an investigation.
However Hobbs resigned from the association and two weeks ago the association said the investigation had been abandoned after the resignation, The Sunday Times said.
In its latest article The SundayTimes claimed that hundreds of Buggins's creations were still circulating on the international markets.
The Russian desk, appeared to be so good that that it found its way into the hands of Mallett, where it was placed on the floor with a price tag of £295,000.
It was said to come from the "private apartments at the Hermitage [palace] St Petersburg".
It also quoted John Hobbs as saying that all antique dealers made mistakes and sold items that it later transpired were not genuine. "I've never ever, ever knowingly sold something that wasn't right," he said.