The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of the 23-year-old auction record for Mouseman furniture being broken by an exceptionally large dining table ...

Firstly was the rarity of the subject. Although the fight was a famous match in British boxing history with a lengthy ...

Dame Edna was wild about Wilde 12 May 2025 The public may have been surprised to discover that Barry Humphries (1934-2023), the creator of Dame Edna Everage, was a great bibliophile with a passion for ...

After 1840, F. & R. Pratt of Fenton in Staffordshire, became the leading (but not the only) manufacturer of multicoloured transfer printed pot lids and a huge range of related wares. Long admired for ...

The form emerged in the early 18 th century, though the origin of the name is obscure. Chairs of this type were manufactured in large numbers in the Thames Valley in Buckinghamshire, and Windsor may ...

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of a vase valued on the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow back ...

A jug dating to 750BC and due to be auctioned at Cotswold Auction Company in Cirencester will now be returning to Cyprus. It will be repatriated as part of a scheme to recover lost antiquities and is ...

A Paris court has delayed the sale of the earliest-known calculator. Scheduled for sale at Christie’s in Paris on November 19, the auction of the scientific instrument w… ...

HMRC will increase the fees for anti-money laundering (AML) supervision. Art and antiques dealers and auction houses that must comply with anti-money laundering regulations … ...

A 15th century Flemish devotional triptych discovered in an almshouse in Dorset is to be offered at auction next month with an estimate of £2.5m-3.5m.

It is apparently not unusual for Christie’s to receive approaches from people claiming to have a work by a great Renaissance master. However, back in March, a man on the west coast of the US, sent an ...

The inaugural auction at Sotheby’s new headquarters at the Breuer Building in New York produced a series of fireworks, not least a record for any lot ever sold by the 281-year-old firm.