The difficulties at the top end of the Modern and Contemporary art market were very much in evidence at the latest flagship auction series in New York. The sales at Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips ...

When three teenagers helped Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd’s roadies to lug their gear into Central Hall, Chatham, on December 1, 1967, they found themselves locked in with the stars. Luckily, one of ...

This Victorian silver-mounted green or amber glass claret jug in t… ...

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of the auction of a Salvator Mundi drawing attributed to an artist from Leonardo da Vinci's workshop.

Auction house John Pye has been appointed to help find a buyer for the collapsed pottery firm W. Moorcroft Ltd. The historic manufacturer announced it had gone into liquidation earlier this month with ...

A group of Kangxi bird paintings from the celebrated ‘Imperial Manual of Birds’ sold for a combined £600,000 at Roseberys in south London. The 19 album leaves were offered as two separate lots on May ...

An Old Trafford supporters’ bench removed during Old Trafford’s 1992 renovations made 33 times its estimate at Graham Budd's latest auction.

The ‘retirement’ sale of dealer Paul Atkinson’s collection at Essex saleroom Sworders this week will be held exactly 50 years since he opened his first antiques shop in Derbyshire. Atkinson’s career ...

Records date back to 1720 for a small glassworks off London's Fleet Street, but Britain's longest running glass house, best known as the Whitefriars factory, really came into its own when James Powell ...

When they first came into use in the 1830s, friction matches were hazardous and could combust without warning, so vesta cases were something of a necessity. But as their production became more ...

Up to the mid-1670s, English glasses, like their Continental counterparts, were made of soda glass producing thinly constructed, lightweight vessels of fluid design. The patenting by George ...

Different from the simple overglaze 'bat' printed wares produced at the Worcester and Caughley factories from the 1750s, Spode's ingenious method involved first the engraving of a design onto a copper ...