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 ...

Different from the simple overglaze 'bat' printed wares produced at the Worcester and Caughley factories from the 1750s, Spode's ingenious method involved first the engraving of a design onto a copper ...

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 ...

A painting by Spanish artist Jusepe de Ribera (1591-1652) which emerged from a shed in rural Sweden drew competition at an auction in Stockholm.

Kerry Taylor Auctions hosted its first US auction on May 21, offering the collection of Peggy Moffitt – the American model who died last year. The auction house expanded to its Jersey City premises ...

The UK’s first solo exhibition of Hungarian postwar artist Karl Stengel (1925–2017) is being hosted … ...

With estimates from £800, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week ...

The Society of London Art Dealers (SLAD) has urged dealers to work together in the face of rising costs. As part of its ...

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of the attic contents of Powderham Castle and Brocklesby Park heading to auction The attic contents of … ...

A string of works by East Anglian artists, each with their own well-established market, drew notable attention at the latest ...

It was billed as the ‘first ever $100m collection of Old Masters to come to auction’ but the auction of the Saunders collection at Sotheby’s New York last night came in significantly below ...

A Roman marble thought by its vendors to be a garden statue turned heads at Toovey’s where it sold earlier this month. The slightly over life-size bust was identified as a c. late 2 nd /early 3 rd ...