The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of Dreweatts’ sale of items from the Leeds and London dealership Tomasso.

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 ...

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 ...

"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 UK government’s Budget included a raft of measures that are likely to affect the art and antiques market.

Prizes were awarded for outstanding objects at the opening gala party for this year’s staging of Asian Art in London. The two ...

More than £24,000 worth of items were stolen from National Trust property Montacute House in Somerset last month. A 1781 silver epergne by Thomas Pitts, a pair of c.1800 French Empire ormolu ...

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of an “extremely scarce” Scalextric C70 Type 59 Bugatti which came in a box that had never been seen before.

Philip Hewat-Jaboor was the chairman of the Masterpiece art fair and amassed a significant antiquities collection at his ...

A trademark painting by Henry Pether (1800-80) attracted significant interest and sold for a solid price at Kinghams (25% buyer’s premium) latest Fine & Decorative Arts sale.

In storage for a century, a remarkable cache of Chinese works of art has sold for £870,000. Close to 700 pieces of primarily ...

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