Within the broader context of 18th century drinking glasses there are certain areas which form the basis of specialist collecting fields. One of these is Beilby glassware, a class mostly of drinking ...

With estimates from £400, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week ...

An unfinished drawing of the Salvator Mundi attributed to Leonardo da Vinci's workshop drew strong competition at Dorotheum of Vienna this week.

At the time that the London-born artist George Chapman (1908-1993) first encountered the Rhondda Valley in 1953, he happened to be reading a series of books by US writer William Faulkner.

"In their view, we Londoners know little about God, and nothing about pottery". Royal Doulton's rise from London makers of domestic stonewares to an internationally-recognised Staffordshire Potteries ...

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of a Chinese handscroll generating a bidding contest lasting over an hour and a half ...

They did this to avoid the perils of travel and (after 1784) to escape paying duty in a region where a heathy distain for the Hanoverians persisted well into the 19 th century. Currently some 30 ...

After a successful event at the NEC in March, Classic Antique Fairs has put a paused on its summer schedule Classic Antique Fairs has announced the cancellation of the July Fair in the NEC Birmingham, ...

Alexander Rotter has been appointed global president of Christie’s with immediate effect. Rotter has been global chairman of 20 th and 21 st century art at the auction house since 2017 where h… ...

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 ...

A collection of early NASA photographs from the collection of space historian Victor Martin-Malburet appeared at Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr in Paris in an online sale running from April 14-28.