The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of a late Tudor or early Stuart purse with a connection to Mary, Queen of Scots bringing remarkable competition at an auction ...

Sotheby’s is planning its first auction in Saudi Arabia in what will be the first sale to be held by an international auction house in the kingdom. Set for February 8, the two-part evening sale titled ...

Arriving just in time for those seeking to do some Christmas shopping, Classic Antique Fairs return November 29-December 1. This charming antique and arts fair has become synonymous with the Midlands ...

The wider market is increasingly selective, but Qing mark and period porcelain continues to shine in the saleroom. The UK auction houses that offered imperial porcelain in the autumn Asian art series ...

Among a group of works from the estate of the late photographer Dorothy Bohm (1924-2023) offered at a recent Lyon & Turnbull sale was a photo taken at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge in the early 1980s.

A replica Cheltenham Gold Cup awarded to Frank Vickerman, the owner of 1948 winner Cottage Rake, fet… ...

Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum has acquired a Fra Angelico (fl.1417-55) Crucifixion scene which was blocked from export following its sale at Christie’s last year.

The written note was from passenger Richard William Smith, who perished with 1500 others three days later ...

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Vendor looks to double their money after discovering Anthony Van Dyck’s ‘only surviving landscape’ on the back of equestrian portrait Christie's is offering Anthony van Dyck’s (1599-1641) painting ‘An ...

A 14th-century mosque lamp from Egypt or Syria achieved the highest price for a glass object at auction when it sold at four times estimate at Bonhams in London yesterday.

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 ...