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.

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 ...

A large number of items were withdrawn at Lay’s sale of the Charlestown Shipwreck Museum collection after a last-minute offer from the Maritime Archaeology Sea Trust (MAST) secured 500 lots. The sale ...

Christie’s will offer a further 90 Rembrandt prints from the collection of the late Sam Josefowitz next month.

It's been a lively few years for the royal family and artist Rob Pointon has captured key moments which can now be seen in a new exhibition. The first major solo exhibition of Pointon, the show is to ...

A large and historic view of Bilbao in Spain was among the lots bringing competition at a recent sale at Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood (26% buyer’s premium) in Exeter. Showing an extensive panorama of ...

Gallery 1936 is a recently launched online gallery, established by George Richards in October 2024. … ...

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.

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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 ...