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 ...

One of Canaletto’s ‘prime-period’ views of Venice which once hung in 10 Downing Street has emerged at Christie’s.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York buys 18th century reverse engraved glass picture Sutton Coldfield dealer Thomas ...

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 ...

An autograph album containing the signatures of notable figures from the early 20th century is to appear at Chiswick Auctions in a timed sale ending May 18. The album provides an insight into the ...

Derbyshire event attracts visitors not just from the Peak District but Cheshire, the Midlands, Nottinghamshire and south Yorkshire ...

Following opposition from the Indian state, Sotheby's took the 11th hour decision to cancel a Hong Kong auction of a collection of relics linked to the historical Buddha. Sotheby's said that, in light ...

Rediscovered Tirzah Garwood prints and drawings emerge at Cheffins. The largest group of works by Tirzah Garwood (1908-1951) to ever come on the open market in one go will be offe ...

The latest jobs moves and appointments across the world of art and antiques LAPADA, the association of art and antiques dealers, has appo… ...

The Petersfield Antiques Fair can lay claim to attracting the hard-to-target youth demographic. A young man called Ezra bought his first antique from fair organiser Ben Cooper at the latest Peters… ...

A handwritten first-hand account of the Indian Mutiny contained in a journal kept from April 1857 to March 1858 hammered down at six times its £600-800 estimate to achieve £5200 at Reeman Dansie in ...

Records date back to 1720 for a small glassworks off London's Fleet Street, but Britain's longest running glass house, best known as the Whitefriars factory, really came into its own when James Powell ...