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 ...
Earliest recorded painting of an Indian sitter by a European female artist emerges. A picture wrapped in a sleeping bag and brought to the Fake or Fortu ...
Why the John Singer Sargent market remains a trans-Atlantic affair. Artistically and commercially, John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) is a giant that straddles the Atlantic.
US President Donald Trump has introduced a new set of trading tariffs that will impact the UK and 60 trading partners.
Appeal for lost sweetheart brooch and stolen rings. Two people are appealing for help from the antiques trade and auctioneers after a lost brooch and a theft of rings occurred thi ...
The height of the summer art season has drawn to a close but there are still plenty of art and antiques exhibitions to view ...
Top stories this week including a rediscovered Old Master emerging in Wimbledon. The most read stories on this website over ...
A collection of furniture, silver, works of art, carpets and books from the estate of artist John Singer Sargent’s grand-niece will be offered at Chorley’s on September 15.
Tyrannosaurus rex specimen takes record $43m at auction. One of the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex specimens ever discovered was hammered down at $43m (£32m) at Soth ...
Among the museum purchases at TEFAF Maastricht earlier this year was a table sold by a Brighton dealer to Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in a deal that has just been announced. The table was made ...
Silver spoons for the dining table have been around since antiquity - a much longer history than the table fork, which did not come into general use until the 18 th century. By this time spoons had ...
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 ...
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